Jersey Plums Poetry Reading

Please join Jersey City Writers, Jersey City Independent, and Art House Productions for our next literary reading of poetry in honor of National Poetry Month. Selected works will be read at our literary event. For more information on how to submit a poem, go to http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2016/02/open-call-for-poetry-submissions-jersey-city-independent-and-jersey-city-writers/

This JCW Genre Night event will feature Claudia Cortese. Claudia Cortese’s first full-length book, Wasp Queen, will be published by Black Lawrence Press in 2016. Cortese is also the author of two chapbooks: Blood Medals (Thrush Poetry Press, 2015), a collection of prose poems, and The Red Essay and Other Histories (Horse Less Press, 2015), a book of lyric essays. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2011, Blackbird, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Kenyon Review Online, and Sixth Finch, among others. The daughter of Neapolitan immigrants, Cortese grew up in Ohio and lives in New Jersey, where she teaches at Montclair State University.

$10/ per person at the door.