Tea and Conversation with Poet Idra Novey

Join us for tea and conversation as Julie Maloney, Director of Women Reading Aloud, conducts an up-close and personal interview with award-winning poet and translator Idra Novey at Bernardsville Public Library on Sunday, March 22 at 2:00 pm. Audience members will have a rare opportunity to ask the author questions about her work and her writing process. A book signing will follow the interview; books will be available for purchase at the event.

Ms. Novey, of Brooklyn, New York, is the author most recently of “Clarice: The Visitor,” a collection of poems and images in collaboration with the artist Erica Baum. Her debut novel “Ways to Disappear” is forthcoming from Little, Brown in 2016. Earlier poetry collections include “Exit, Civilian,” selected by Patricia Smith for the 2011 National Poetry Series, and “The Next Country,” a finalist for the 2008 Foreword Book of the Year Award in poetry. Her work has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, the Leonard Lopate Show, in Slate, The Paris Review, A Public Space and Poetry. She has received awards from the Poetry Foundation, the Poetry Society of America, the National Endowment for the Arts, Poets & Writers Magazine, and the PEN Translation Fund. Her most recent translation is Clarice Lispector’s novel “The Passion According to G.H.” She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

Interviewer Julie Maloney has worked in the arts as a performer and educator her entire life. She is a poet and writer and founder/director of Women Reading Aloud (WRA), a not-for-profit organization that promotes women writers in New Jersey and beyond. WRA holds workshops, special events, writing retreats, conferences and an on-going writing workshop series each spring and fall during which women writers of all genres hone their work in a salon type setting. The annual Writer’s Weekend Retreat is held each April in Sea Girt, NJ. In June, WRA returns for its fifth Greece Writer’s Retreat on the island of Alonnisos in the North Sporades. Ms. Maloney is a frequent speaker on “Writing as a Life Tool.”
There is no charge to attend the program at the library, but advance sign-up is requested. Register online at www.bernardsvillelibrary.org and follow the link from Adult Programs, or call the library at 908-766-0118 to sign up.