High Mountain Meadow Poetry Series In-Person
The group features two poets and includes an Open Mic. Hosted by Paul Nash & Denise LaNeve, representing the North Jersey Literary Community and the Poets of the Palisades. This event is free and all are welcome!
Featured Poets:
Peter Dabbene's poetry and stories have been published in dozens of online and print literary journals. He has published the poetry collections The Lotus Eater (and Other Poems), Optimism, the graphic novels Ark, Robin Hood, and George Washington: Father of a Nation, the story collections Prime Movements and Glossolalia, and a novel, Mister Dreyfus' Demons.
About The Lotus Eater (and Other Poems) has been reviewed in the following words:
“Very few poets make a lasting impression, so when we find one that grabs our attention and demands to be read, we hold on. Tightly. For me, Peter Dabbene is one of those rarities.” (Patricia Gomes, author and Poet Laureate, New Bedford Massachusetts, 2014-2021)
Other recent works include the Spamming the Spammers trilogy and Complex Simplicity, a collection of essays. His website is www.peterdabbene.com
Mark Fogarty is a poet, musician and journalist from Rutherford, NJ. He is a former editor of the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow and has had more than 150 poems published in magazines like Hawaii Review, Paterson Literary Review, Lips and Exit 13 and has appeared at poetry readings in New York, New Jersey. Ohio and Minnesota. He is the author of eight volumes of poetry, all from White Chickens Press: Myshkin's Blues, Peninsula, Phantom Engineer, Eye of the Circle, Continuum: The Jaco Poems, The Tall Women's Dance, Sun Nets and Fourteens.
- Date:
- Sunday, March 8, 2026 Show more dates
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Marion Grober StoryTime Room
- Audience:
- Adults Senior Adults Teens
- Categories:
- Cultural Program
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