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The author started the poem as part of a school project about ideas of success and in response to her friends’ helicopter parents. She enjoys making art, playing tennis, and volunteering at Feeding Hands.

Lori Dolnick is a 35+ year local writer, content and marketing professional with Frank Advertising. She conducts educational seminars and writes articles on marketing, social media and public relations for Rider University, Kitchen + Bath Business Magazine, and others.

Coleen Tyler is a visual artist with a great appreciation of words and their power to speak to truth. She makes analog photographs that search for this same essence in a visual form.

A graduate of Princeton University, Scott McVay served as a Special Agent with the Counter Intelligence Corps in Berlin for three years. He is the author of “Surprise Encounters with Artists and Scientists, Whales and Other Living Things” and a collection of 99 poems, “Whales Sing and Other Exuberances.” He was the founding executive director […]

Lavinia Kumar’s latest book is “Spirited American Women: Early Writers, Artists, & Activists.” She is author of three poetry books and four chapbooks.

Marion Pollack has been a faithful participant in her writers groups. Her work has been published in Back in the Bronx, Kelsey Review and US1. Marion is retired from her therapy practice at Aroga Behavioral Health. She lives with her husband, Bob, in Lawrenceville. She has two children and six grandchildren.

Michael Angrosino is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of South Florida. He is also a certified clinical chaplain who has served at hospitals and nursing homes in Middlesex and Mercer counties. He is now retired and lives in Monroe.

Co-founder of Princeton’s Cool Women Poets, Carolyn has photographed and written on nature/travel/history for The Times of Trenton, U.S. 1 Newspaper, The Packet Publications, and Jersey Sierran and New Jersey Countryside magazines. Carolyn’s commitment to the environment includes nearly 17 years at D&R Greenway Land Trust.

Vida Chu grew up in Hong Kong, came to America for college, and stayed. She has lived in Princeton for 57 years. She has poems published in US 1 Newspaper, Kelsey Review, The Literary Review, US 1 Worksheet, and The Princeton Magazine.

Borden is a retired elementary school teacher who likes to paint houses, not the houses just the pictures of them. This poem was written for the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Crosswicks Society of Friends Meeting House. The designated speakers took so long that there was not time for unscheduled offerings from the […]