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- Central Rappahannock Celebration of Poetry
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- On the Same Page podcast (Jefferson-Madison Regional Library) — reading tomorrow (6/2)
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(fall 2024) at Zenith Bookstore in Duluth, Minnesota on May 1st from 7-8:30 p.m.
John J. Trause Readings:
Dear Family & Friends,
Please see below also an updated list of my other creative events this season.
Please join me for these two readings in which I shall be featured. Please see the information on each reading from the hosts below.
Saturday, May 31, 2025, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
as co-feature with my fellow contributors to Lips 61-62
at Wayne Public Library, Main Branch
461 Valley Road
Wayne, New Jersey 07011
(973) 694-4272
https://www.waynepubliclibrary.org/
Lips will hold an in-person reading for contributors to Lips 61-62 on Saturday, May 31, 2025, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Wayne Public Library, Main Branch, 461 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ 07011. Phone : 973-694-4272. Plenty of free parking. Host: Jim Gwyn.
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Sunday, June 1, 2025, from 2:00 p. m. to 4:00 p. m.
as co-feature with two of my literary heroes for Carmine Street Metrics
in the Willa Cather Room
at Jefferson Market Library
425 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10011-8427
https://www.nypl.org/locations/jefferson-market
Please join us live in-person for the Carmine Street Metrics reading on
Sunday June 1 at 2 pm (Doors and open mic sign-up: 1:45 pm)
Reading starts: 2 pm
Jefferson Market Library Willa Cather Room
425 6th Avenue (between W. 9 and W. 10 St.) NYC
Special features: Andrei Codrescu, Rachel Hadas, John J. Trause
No Zoom component (sorry!)
Open mic sign-up on site, no advance registration. Metrical poetry encouraged (not required!)
Andrei Codrescu has written poetry, fiction, and essays. His most recent book is How to Live under Fascism, and his current thoughts are at andreicodrescu.substack.com.
Rachel Hadas is the author of many books of poetry and essays, most recently Pastorals, brief prose pieces (Measure Press, 2025). Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University, Rachel currently teaches poetry at the 92nd Street Y as well as to private students. She is Original English Verse Editor of the periodical Classical Outlook and (American) poetry editor of The Robert Graves Review.
John J. Trause, the Director of Oradell Public Library, is the author of six books of poetry and one of parody, Latter-Day Litany, the latter staged Off Broadway. His translations, poetry, prose, scholarship, and visual work appear internationally in many journals and anthologies. Marymark Press has published his visual poetry and art as broadsides and sheets. He is a founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative (The Red Wheelbarrow) in Rutherford, NJ, and former host and curator of its monthly reading series. He is fond of cunning acrostics and color-coded chiasmus.
Presented in the first floor Willa Cather Room. All events are free and open to the public. Handicap accessible. Series Hosts: Terese Coe, Wendy Sloan and Anton Yakovlev.
Please see below for more of my upcoming creative events.
Love & Peace,
JOHN
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Coming Soon
**********Please remember to mark your calendars for all poetry features and events by John J. Trause in spring and summer 2025:
Saturday, May 31, 2025, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. as co-feature with my fellow contributors to Lips 61-62, Wayne Public Library, Main Branch, 461 Valley Road, Wayne, New Jersey 07011. (973) 694-4272. https://www.waynepubliclibrary.org/
Sunday, June 1, 2025, at 2 p. m. as co-feature for Carmine Street Metrics at Jefferson Market Library, 425 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10011-8427. https://www.nypl.org/locations/jefferson-market
Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 7:30 p. m. in the launch reading of the New Jersey Bards Poetry Review at Courtyard by Marriott Parsippany 3769 US-46, Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ 07054-1018.
Saturday, June 14, 2025, from 11 a. m. to 4 p. m., moderating and participating in the activities in the Poetry Tent at the Passaic County Book Festival, Weasel Brook Park, 745 Park Drive, Clifton, 07012. https://www.palsplus.org/
Monday, June 16, 2025, at 7 p. m., host and participant in James Joyce Tribute for Bloomsday at Oradell Public Library, 375 Kinderkamack Road, Oradell, New Jersey 07649. https://oradellpubliclibrary.org/
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, at 7 p. m. feature for Poetry Reading and Open Mic Night at Little Falls Public Library, 8 Warren Street, Little Falls, New Jersey 07424. (973) 256-2784. https://www.littlefallslibrary.org/
Saturday, June 21, 2025, from 5 p. m. to 9 p. m. as co-feature in reading at Woodstock Shivastan Poetry Ashram: Book Store, Art Gallery & Gift Shop, 6 Hillcrest Avenue / Sargeant Richard Quinn Drive, Woodstock, New York 12498. (845) 679-8777. https://www.facebook.com/people/Woodstock-Shivastan-Poetry-Ashram-Book-Store-Art-Gallery-Giftshop/100063678487925/#
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