Poets at the Library: Catherine Doty and John David Muth

Princeton Public Library

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Aug

16

11:00pm

Poets at the Library: Catherine Doty and John David Muth

By Princeton Public Library

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Featured readers Catherine Doty and John David Muth share their work for 20 minutes each, followed by an open mic session. Poets who sign up in advance may share one poem during open mic.
To sign up for an open mic slot, please fill in this form.
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Doty is a poet, cartoonist, and educator from Paterson, New Jersey. She is the author of "Wonderama" and "Momentum," volumes of poems from CavanKerry Press, and "Just Kidding," a collection of cartoons from Avocet Press. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as an Academy of American Poets Prize and fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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Muth was born and raised in central New Jersey. He has been an academic advisor at Rutgers University for over 20 years. In addition to writing, he enjoys hiking, road trips, and volunteering for environmental causes in his spare time. He is a member of DVP/US 1 Poets. Muth's work has appeared in such journals as "Better Than Starbucks!," "Verse-Virtual," and "U.S. 1 Worksheets." He is the author of five collections of poetry: "A Love for Lavender Dragons" (Kelsay Books, 2016), "Inevitable Carbon" (Kelsay Books, 2017), "Odysseus in Absaroka" (Kelsay Books, 2018), "Reassure the Phoenix" (Kelsay Books, 2019), "Dreams of a Viking Wedding" (Kelsay Books, 2020), and "Misanthropes Rarely Procreate" (Kelsay Books, 2021).
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Presented in partnership with DVP/US 1 Poets with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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