Princeton's Cool Women Poets Launch Volume VII Princeton P. Library

Cool Women Contact: lmharrod1@verizon.net

The launch party of Princeton’s Cool Women Volume 7 will take place at Princeton Public Library, on Saturday, October 15, 2022, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the Community Room on the ground floor. https://princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/7154286

Princeton’s 11-woman critique and performance group has been meeting monthly for decades, to share, hone and expand their poems. From first performances, they have been asked to create their jazzy events in and beyond the tri-state area, even to a mountaintop in Oregon with Portland poets.

In ‘The Cools’ their earliest days, they provided Cool Girls, for a selection of Princeton regional teens who had never before critiqued their own and others’ works. Eloise Bruce, who led this program, insists,“They were naturally gifted. They taught us!”

Princeton’s Cool Women include Eloise Bruce, Juditha Dowd, Lois Marie Harrod, Joyce Greenberg Lott, Judy Rowe Michaels, Sharon Olson, Penelope Scambly Schott, Maxine Susman, Gretna Wilkinson, with co-founders Betty Lies and Carolyn Foote Edelmann. All are widely published individually, and many have shared their innate talents as teachers.

Meeting-to-critique since Princeton’s Micawber Books called them into being in the 1980’s, the group has seven anthologies and two 2 CDs to their credit. Books may be purchased and will be signed by ‘The Cools’ at their launch party at the Princeton Public Library.