Princeton Makes To Host Second Sunday Poetry Reading On Mother's Day

PRINCETON, NJ — If your mom loves poetry, this is possibly the best place to be on Sunday. Princeton Makes and Ragged Sky Press will host a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on Sunday, 4 p.m. The readings will take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center.

The reading will feature Rachel Hadas and Kevin O’Shaughnessy. This will be followed by an open mic available to up to 10 audience members who would like to read their original poetry. Poems reflecting Mothers’ Day are encouraged.

Rachel Hadas is the author of Pandemic "Almanac" (Ragged Sky) and numerous other collections of poetry and essays. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the O. B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Hadas is also a Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, where she has taught for many years.

Keith O’Shaughnessy’s latest book, "Petrushka", is a collection of poems and fables set in a quasi-Russian dreamscape. His first book of poems, "Incommunicado", won the inaugural Grolier Discovery Award. A life-long resident of Princeton, he teaches English at Camden County College in southern New Jersey.

Princeton Makes is a cooperative comprised of 32 local artists who work across a range of artistic genres, including painting, drawing, stained glass, sculpture, textiles, and jewelry.
Additional information is available at www.princetonmakes.com.