Princeton Public Library is set to host presentations by authors and poets in May.
Poets in the Library is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. May 18 in the library’s fireplace area on the second floor
Featured poets Joseph Longino and Adele Kenny are set to read from their works for 20 minutes each. The readings will be followed by an open mid session.
Longino, a published poet and art critic, is president of the Delaware Valley Poets. He has taught writing and literature at Georgia State and Georgia Tech Universities in Atlanta. He holds a degrees from the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review, University of Connecticut, University of Cincinnati, and Emory University.
Kenny is the author of 23 books with a new poetry collection scheduled for 2014. Her poems, reviews, and articles have been published worldwide, and her poems have appeared in numerous books and anthologies. She is the recipient of various awards, including poetry fellowships from the N.J. State Arts Council, first place Merit Book and Henderson Awards, a Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, a Writer’s Digest Poetry Award, and the 2012 International Book Award.
Poets at the Library is co-sponsored by the library, Delaware Valley Poets and the U.S. 1 Poets Cooperative.
Authors Ethan Casey and Bill Steigerwald are scheduled to present scheduled for 7 p.m. May 14 in the library’s Community Room.
The authors plan to give a presentation called 2 Authors, 2 Road Trips, 2 Americas. They will offer provocative, first-person accounts of the coast-to-coast journeys behind each of their books.
In Dogging Steinbeck, Steigerwald proved that John Steinbeck’s classic Travels with Charley is so misleading it doesn’t deserve to be called a work of nonfiction.
Casey’s Home Free is an account of the clockwise road trip around America he took during election season when he found a country “struggling through a time of confusion, economic and political distress and transition.”
The library is located at 65 Witherspoon St., Princeton.
More information is online at princetonlibrary.org.
