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South Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction
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December 15 • Charles Johnson and Laine Sutton
A graduate of Rutgers University, Charles H. Johnson is a 2013 second place winner of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards for his poem “Sunday Comics.” The 2011 New Jersey Poetry Prize winner for his poem “Leaving,” his third poetry collection, “Smoke Signals,” was awarded a 2010 Paterson Poetry Prize for Literary Excellence for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize. A first-place winner of the 1998 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, he has been the poetry editor of the online literary magazine Identity Theory. He is the poetry instructor for the Middlesex and Monmouth counties (N.J.) arts high schools and the Middlesex County (N.J.) Youth Shelter, and a visiting poet for the Paterson (N.J.) school system. A Vietnam War veteran and retired newspaper editor, he also is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poet in the Schools. He lives in Hillsborough, N.J., with his wife Lainey.
Charles Johnson and Laine Sutton Johnson
Laine Sutton Johnson is a retired high school drama director and English teacher. She received her B.A. from Wagner College and her M.A. in speech and theater from Montclair State University. In 1998, Laine was awarded the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Speech and Theater Teacher of the Year. She is a long-time member of Actor’s Equity and has performed in numerous shows, including “Hello Dolly” (in the role of Dolly), Belle of Amherst (as Emily), and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe” (as Martha). Her one-act play “In Another Place” was selected for Villagers Theatre Playwrights’ series for performance in spring 2013.
January 19 • Wendy Rosenberg and Charles Bondhus
Wendy Rosenberg is a poet, teacher, Reiki master and certified Creativity Coach. She is an Expressive Arts Educational Facilitator and a Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator. She is a founding member of the Westfield Poetry Group and the recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation teacher scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center. She lives in Westfield.
Charlie Bondhus
Charlie Bondhus is the author of What We Have Learned to Love, which won Brickhouse Books’ 2008-09 Stonewall Competition, How the Boy Might See It (Pecan Grove Press), and All the Heat We Could Carry, the winner of the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award and a finalist for the Gival Press Poetry Book Award.His work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Wisconsin Review, The Hawai’i Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, the Alabama Literary Review, and Cold Mountain Review among others. He grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Saint Anselm College. He received his MFA from Goddard College and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He currently teaches English and creative writing at Raritan Valley Community College.