March 2014 • Poetry Series

March 16 • Sharon Olson and Martha Silano

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Sharon Olson

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

Martha Silano

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.

April 20 •  Therese Halscheid and Barbara Daniels

Therese HalscheidTherése Halscheid was awarded a 2003 Fellowship for Poetry from New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She is author of four poetry collections, Powertalk (1995) and Without Home (Kells, 2001), and Uncommon Geography (Carpenter Gothic, 2006). Uncommon Geography received a 2007 Finalist Award from the Paterson Poetry Book Prize. She also won a chapbook award by Pudding House Publications, as part of their 2007 Greatest Hits series, which is a collection of twelve poems spanning the writing life of the poet, prefaced with a narrative that weaves the poet’s life with the body of work.
Her writings poetry and prose have appeared in numerous magazines among them Karamu, Rhino, New Millennium Writings, Faultline, 13th Moon.
She teaches creative writing in varied settings, including Atlantic Cape Community College as well as being a visiting writer in schools through NJ State Council on the Arts. She has been an artist in residence at Acadia National Park, ME, and has received a Dodge Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, June 2005.

 

Barbara Daniels

Barbara Daniels

Barbara Daniels’ poems have appeared in literary magazines published by thirty-three colleges and universities as well as by dozens of journals published in thirty states. She has published more than 250 poems. She has also given many poetry readings and participated as a staff member in writing conferences and workshops.
You can find her poems in The Cortland Review, Jerseyworks, Tattoo Highway, Parva Sed Apta, and Pif.  You may also want to look at her poems on the University of Pennsylvania’s Writers’ House website, the Art in the Air website, and Frigg magazine’s archive.
Barb was awarded Individual Artist Fellowships by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 2005 and 1998.
Barb earned an MFA in writing from Vermont College in 1999. She also has a master’s degree in English and American literature from New York University. She taught at Camden County College from 1976 until 2008.

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