Featured poets Lois Marie Harrod and Wanda S. Praisner read from their works for 20 minutes each, followed by an open mic session.

For the open mic, poets who sign up in advance will have a chance to share one poem of their choosing.  For details on how to sign up please use this form.

Lois Marie Harrod’s 17th collection Woman was published by Blue Lyra in February 2020 and her chapbook Spat is slated to come out in the Spring of 2021.   Her Nightmares of the Minor Poet appeared in June 2016 from Five Oaks; her chapbook And She Took the Heart appeared in January 2016; Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis (Cherry Grove Press) and the chapbook How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth (Dancing Girl Press) appeared in 2013. A Dodge poet, she is published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3. She teaches at the Evergreen Forum in Princeton. Links to her online work www.loismarieharrod.org

Wanda S. Praisner, a recipient of fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Dodge Foundation, PFAWC, and VCCA, has work in Atlanta Review, Lullwater Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her fifth book is Natirar ( Kelsay Books, 2017), and her sixth is To Illuminate the Way (Aldrich Press, 2018). A resident poet for the state, she’s received  fifteen Pushcart Prize nominations, the Egan Award, Princemere Prize, Kudzu Award, First Prize in Poetry at the College of NJ Writer’s Conference, and the 2017 New Jersey Poets Prize.

Presented in partnership with the US1 Poets’ Cooperative and Delaware Valley Poets.

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Poets at the Library: Lois Marie Harrod and Wanda S. Praisner