March 2013 • Poetry Series

March 17, 2PM Mark Hillringhouse & Richard O’Brien
April 21, 2PM Kathe Palka & Linda Arntzenius

South Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction
For information, call 732.329.4000 x 7635 or email arts@sbtnj.net
Free Admission • Food Pantry Donation Appreciated
Program followed by open readings

March 17, 2PM Mark Hillringhouse & Richard O’Brien

Mark Hillringhouse is a published poet, essayist, and photographer. His photo-essay on the Passaic River was published last January in the American
Poetry Review and his interview with poet Paul Violia ppeared in Hanging Loose Magazine as part of their 100th issue in 2012. He also collaborated on a recent documentary film on the life of poet Maria Gillan. His photography and writing have also been published in The New York Times, The New Jersey Monthly, The Paris Review, and in many other journals, books, anthologies, andmagazines. He was the founding editor of the American Book Review, and a contributing editor for The New York Arts Journal. His book of photography and poetry titled Between Frames has recently been published by Serving House Books. His “Great Falls Infrared Black & White” won the National Parks Natural Landmarks contest for best photograph and inclusion in the National Parks 2012
Calendar. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and he is a member of the English Department at Passaic County Community College.

New Jersey native Richard O’Brien is the author of the novel Little Flower of Luzon (Green Merryl Press). He served in the army before the Berlin Wall came down, attended Rutgers University, and received his MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2012. He has published numerous short stories and poems both online and in numerous small-press journals. Currently, Richard lives in Havertown, PA.

April 21, 2PM Kathe Palka and Linda Arntzenius

Kathe L. Palka’s poetry been published in Alehouse, Bogg Magazine, The Bucks County Writer, Cezanne’s Carrot, Ekphrasis, Exit 13, Frogpond, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, Modern Haiku, paper wasp, The Penwood Review,
Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, red lights, the Schuylkill Valley Journal, Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, U.S. 1 Worksheets and Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature.
She has had work included in a number of anthologies including To Love One Another: Poems Celebrating Marriage (Grayson Books, 2002), seed packets: an anthology of flower haiku ( Bottle Rockets Press, 2010), evolution: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2010 (Red Moon Press 2011), Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka Vol. 3, 2010, MET Press 2011, Dreams
Wander On: Contemporary Poems of Death Awareness, MET Press
2011, and carving darkness: The Red Moon Anthology of English-
Language Haiku 2011, Red Moon Press, 2012. Two chapbook collections, The Grace of Light (2004) and Faith to See and Other Poems (2007) have been published by Finishing Line Press. Palka won a 2011 eChapbook Award from Snapshot Press of Great Britain for her short tanka collection As the Years Pass, Her latest collection, Miracle of the Wine: New and Selected Poems (Grayson
Books) was published in 2012.

Linda Arntzenius has been a professional freelance writer for almost two decades with stints along the way as an adjunct college professor, marketing communications specialist, editor, newspaper reporter, and now oral history
interviewer. A native of Scotland, she came to Princeton by way of London, Pittsburgh, Boston and Los Angeles. She holds master’s degrees in philosophy from the London School of Economics and in professional writing from the
University of Southern California. She is a member of both U.S.1 Poets’
Cooperative and the Princeton Research Forum. Her most recent
book publication is a pictorial history Images of America: Institute for Advanced Study (Arcadia, February, 2011).

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