Second Sunday Poetry Reading In Princeton With Steve Nolan, Lew Maltby

PRINCETON, NJ — On Sunday, Princeton Makes will be hosting its Second Sunday Poetry Reading, 4 p.m. at Princeton Shopping Center.

Sunday's reading will feature Steve Nolan and Lew Maltby. Nolan spent 30 years in the military and 25 years as a mental health professional. His poetry was featured on National Public Radio, Morning Edition, upon his return from Afghanistan in 2007. His work reflects his commitment to social justice. He is the author of "Go Deep (with NJ DeVico), Base Camp: Poems, and American Carnage: An Officer’s Duty to Warn."

Maltby has been a truck driver, factory worker, trial lawyer, model, logger, and soldier. He uses all these experiences to find a voice in his poetry. His images include “gazing at a meteor shower of tracers through barbed wire” while crawling through a minefield to “bodies colliding like snowflakes under the Northern Lights” with a lover in Iceland. His first chapbook, "Smiling Axes," was published by Kelsay Press in 2019.

Princeton Makes is an artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry.

Sunday's poetry readings will be followed by an open mic available to up to 10 audience members who would like to read their original poetry.

For more information, visit www.princetonmakes.com.

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