U.S. 1 Newspaper Summer Fiction and Poetry Reception at D&R Greenway Land Trust Aug. 18

One of the miracles of living in Princeton is that our business newspaper, U.S. 1, under Rich Rein, devotes two weeks issues each summer to fiction and poetry by local writers on local themes.  

The issue can be picked up for another week, in all the usual places, -- such as Princeton Public Library, and Main Street's Porch in Kingston.    

Honored to be one of the chosen poets this year, and to be displayed in company alongside Scott McVay, Founder of the Dodge Poetry Festival, and Susan Charkes, D&R Greenway's Science Writer, I'll be one of many readers on Aug. 18 at D&R Greenway Land Trust. 

The public is invited, and the event is free. To register, call 609-924-4646. At 4 p.m., the public is welcome to take an informal stroll on the newly opened Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail, in Greenway Meadows behind our circa-1900 (Robert Wood Johnson's) barn.  

At 5 p.m., U.S. 1 newspaper, Rich Rein -- the founding editor, with the issue editors and other staff, will hold a reception in our upstairs Robert Wood Johnson Room, which is at 1 Preservation Place, off Rosedale Road, between Elm Road and Province Line Road.  

At 5:30, Editors Rich, Nell Whiting and John Symons will introduce their choices for this festival of creativity. All present writers will be introduced; only the poets will read.

For creativity to reign for two weeks each year, in this crassly commercial century, is heartening, one of the resons choose to live (since 1968 mostly) in Princeton-town....

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Reprinted from the July 27, 2011, issue of U.S. 1 Newspaper

Aperture

by Carolyn Foote Edelmann

Inspired by Rory Mahon's fine art photograph:

Summer - Cornfield at Sunset, during D&R Greenway’s “The Road Not Taken” exhibition.

Aperture

lie back on this soil

or what used to be soil

what nobody wants to realize

is sand/gravel/dust

—drought’s detritus

stare up from this soil

through the green shafts

of corn, or what used to be

green, before

the wages of emissions

turned all stalks to shocks

—first crisped to bisque

—then cinnamon brown

—dessicated to charcoal, even cinder

corn leaves used to be silken

rising like green fountains

from soil that was lush

in the former Garden State

-- dessicated state

--most guarded state

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“Report Suspicious Behavior”

glaring from bright white banner

above our US 1

I keep verdant memories

of festoons of corn

opening blue windows

to sky / to light

in that time before warming

became curse

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Arts and Education Associate at D&R Greenway Land Trust, Carolyn spends her days doing whatever it takes to call attention to the urgency of saving land in our New Jersey. She maintains two nature blogs, NJ WILD for the Packet and “The Nature of Princeton” for Princeton Patch. In the 1970s she was accepted by Princeton University to study with Ted Weiss, Galway Kinnell and Stanley Plumly. She has been published since the 1970s in many literary journals, with two chapbooks to her name.