Hoboken Museum To Host Poetry Reading Event

Hoboken, NJ - The Hoboken Historical Museum, in partnership with nonprofit publisher CavanKerry Press, will host the 3rd annual “Something (New) Jersey” poetry event, featuring a new group of contemporary wordsmiths.

The event is scheduled for Sunday, April 10, at 3 p.m., at the museum’s location at 1301 Hudson St.

The public is welcome; a $5 donation is suggested.

According to organizers, the two-hour event will feature nine New Jersey poets reading a selection of their own work. Poets taking part this year include: Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Ernest Hilbert, Eliot Katz, Nancy Mercado, Lamont Steptoe, Rich Villar, BJ Ward, Teresa Carson, and Hoboken Historical Museum’s poet in residence, Danny Shot.

According to organizers, the museum’s previous poetry events have exceeded seating capacity and visitors should arrive early to secure a seat.

The organizers of the event are Teresa Carson, associate publisher of CavanKerry Press, and Danny Shot, poet in residence at the Hoboken Historical Museum, along with Robert Foster, executive director of the Hoboken Historical Museum.

For more information, visit www.hobokenmuseum.org, or call (201) 656-2240.

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