Celebrate Love With Poetry Reading At Princeton Makes

PRINCETON, NJ — Artist cooperative, Princeton Makes, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, will host a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on Sunday, Feb. 13 at 4 p.m. The readings will take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center.

The reading will feature Elizabeth Danson and Carlos Hernández Peña. This will be followed by an open mic available to up to 10 audience members who would like to read their original poetry. In celebration of Valentine's Day, participants are encouraged to read poetry with a love theme.

Danson was educated in England but has spent her adult life in the U.S. She has taught reading and writing to both children and adults. A member of the U.S.1 Poets' Co-operative for many years, she has published poems in U.S.1 Worksheets and in several other poetry journals. The Ragged Sky Press has published two books of her poems - "The Luxury of Obstacles" in 2006 and "Look Again" in 2019.

Hernández Peña was born in Mexico City and is the author of Moonmilk and Other Poems. He translated Hungarian poet Sándor Kányádi's "Behind God's Back" into Spanish. His work appears in Drunken Boat, Fox Chase Review, US1 Worksheets, Hayden’s Ferry Review and other journals. He recently retired from The Segal Co., an employee benefits consultant in Princeton, New Jersey.

Princeton Makes is comprised of 32 local artists who work across a range of artistic genres, including painting, drawing, stained glass, sculpture, textiles, and jewelry.

Customers can support local artists by shopping for a wide variety of art, including large paintings, prints, custom-made greeting cards, stained glass lamps and window hangings, jewelry in a variety of designs and patterns, and more

For more information visit www.princetonmakes.com.