Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, host a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on Sunday, September 15, at 4 p.m. The readings take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center.
The September reading features Annie Cao and Lois Marie Harrod. Their readings will be followed by an open mic available to up to 10 audience members who would like to read their original poetry.
Annie Cao is a Chinese American poet and a senior at Princeton University, where she studies English, creative writing, and gender & sexuality studies. She has been published by The Kenyon Review, poets.org, Diode Poetry Journal, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and more. At Princeton, she received the English Department’s Academy of American Poets e.e. cummings Prize and Outstanding Work Awards from the Lewis Center for the Arts. On campus, she is editor-in-chief emerita of the Nassau Literary Review, the student literary magazine, and co-editor-in-chief and co-founder of Moon Press, the student publishing press.
Lois Marie Harrod’s “Spat” was published by Finishing Line Press in May 2021, and her seventh collection, “Woman,” was published by Blue Lyra in February 2020. “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, life-long educator, and writer, she is published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Tar River to Zone 3.
Princeton Makes is a cooperative comprised of 37 local artists who work across a range of artistic genres, including painting, drawing, stained glass, sculpture, textiles, and jewelry. Customers will be able to support local artists by shopping for a wide variety of art, including large paintings, prints, custom-made greeting cards, stained glass lamps and window hangings, jewelry in a variety of designs and patterns, and more.
Ragged Sky is a small, highly selective cooperative press. We work with our authors closely. Authors retain copyright and we use our experience and professional resources to support the author’s work through the editing, production, and design process. Ragged Sky Press has historically focused on mature voices, overlooked poets, and women’s perspectives.
Second Sunday Poetry Readings, Princeton Makes, Princeton Shopping Center, 301 North Harrison Street, Princeton. Sunday, September 15, 4 p.m. Free. www.princetonmakes.com.
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