HOBOKEN — Last year the Hoboken Historical Museum and CavanKerry Press hosted “Something Old, Something New (Jersey), a celebration of our state’€™s rich poetic heritage” in honor of the state€’s 350th birthday. New Jersey however, boasts such a wealth of poetic talent, that this year there will be a second installment, featuring a new group of vibrant NJ Poets, on Sunday, April 19, at 3 p.m. All are welcome.
This two-hour public event will feature 10 contemporary New Jersey poets reading poems written by iconic NJ poets, as well as a poem of their own. The iconic poets include: Stephen Crane, Toi Derricotte, Maggie Estep, W.S. Merwin, Bob Rixon, Ntozake Shange, Patti Smith, and C.K. Williams. The contemporary poets reading at the event will be Renee Ashley, Teresa Carson, Reg E. Gaines, Carmelo Garcia, Frank Messina, James Richardson, Magdalena Alagna Schmidt, Danny Shot, Joe Weil, Gretna Wilkinson, and the 2015 NJ Poetry Out Loud State Champion.
The organizers of the event are Teresa Carson, Associate Publisher of CavanKerry Press, and Danny Shot, Poet-in Residence, Hoboken Historical Museum, along with Robert Foster, Executive Director of the Hoboken Historical Museum. Carson is a poet as well as publisher at the not-for-profit literary press, which has been based in Fort Lee, NJ, since its inception in 2000. She has coordinated events such as poetry readings, book parties and fundraising events, including statewide community outreach programs for CavanKerry Press. Danny Shot teaches English at Brooklyn Tech High School. He co-founded Long Shot Magazine with Eliot Katz in the early 1980s. He has performed at, as well as coordinated, events throughout the region.