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February 16 • R.G. Evans and Kevin Carey
R. G. Evans’s poems, fiction and reviews have appeared in publications such as Rattle, The Literary Review, Paterson Literary Review, and Weird Tales. His original music, including the song “The Crows of Paterson,” was featured in the 2012 documentary film All That Lies Between Us, about the life and work of poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan. Evans teaches high school and university English and Creative Writing in southern New Jersey.
Kevin Carey teaches in the English Department at Salem State University. He writes poetry, fiction, drama, and the occasional personal essay. His work can be found in several literary journals: The Apple Valley Review, The Literary Review, The Comstock Review, and The Paterson Literary Review. His book of poetry, The One Fifteen to Penn Station, is available from CavanKerry Press, NJ. and Amazon.com. Kevin is also a seventh grade basketball coach in Beverly, Ma. and a part time filmmaker. His latest documentary project is a film about New Jersey poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan called All That Lies Between Us. A new chapbook of fiction – The Beach People – from Red Bird Chapbooks is forthcoming.
March 16 • Sharon Olson and Martha Silano
Sharon Olson has recently moved to Lawrenceville, New Jersey (after living several years in Guilford, Connecticut). She retired in 2007 from the Palo Alto (California) City Library where she had been a reference librarian and cataloger since 1978. She earned a B.A. in Art History from Stanford and attended its campus in Florence, Italy, in 1967. She also has an M.L.S. from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon. Her chapbook, Clouds Brushed in Later, was selected by Carolyn Forché as the winner of the Abby Niebauer Memorial Chapbook award and was published by the San Jose Poetry Center Press in 1987. The Long Night of Flying is her first full-length collection of poems.
Martha Silano is the author of four books of poetry: What the Truth Tastes Like, Blue Positive, Saturnalia Books Prize Winner The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, and Reckless Lovely (2014). Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, The Cincinnati Review, AGNI, and in over two dozen print anthologies. Martha is also the author, with Kelli Russell Agodon, of The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice. She serves as poetry editor of Crab Creek Review and teaches at Bellevue College in Bellevue, Washington.