Amy Molloy scarfed down the last of her caramel, apple toasty a la mode, crushed the Jammin’ Crepes bag, and rolled over onto her non-arthritic side. “There’s nothing worse than a man who thinks he’s funny when he’s not,” she thought, watching the comforter rise and fall. Amy had known Thaddeus since high school when […]
Act I Agent Daniel Warlock was a blood-stained mess. His face and scalp were caked in shades of dried brown blood and fresh, still seeping, crimson. Beneath his torn clothes peeked bruises and cuts on his arms and legs; his hands were raw at the knuckles – a vibrant example of “you should see the […]
Christine Piatek is retired from the workforce and enjoys writing in many forms, including poetry. She has had poems published here in the Summer Fiction/Poetry edition in prior years, in last year’s US 1 Worksheets, and on Spillwords.com.
Sitting under a striped beach umbrella, SHE is absorbed in a paperback novel. Off to the right and closing fast, HE is running toward her at full speed, his eyes fixed on the plaid kite trailing behind him. Destiny is like a word problem: if one train heads east and another heads west on the […]
Avid about nature, Edelmann has covered nearby outdoors excursions, as well as history and art, for The Times of Trenton, U.S. 1, The Packet Publications, and a range of nature magazines.
Gutterman uses poetry to embellish the (big and small) dramas of life. Per the ghazal form, there is a repeating word closing each couplet and a rhyme preceding the end word. Gutterman is a founding Board member and current Literary Committee Chair of West Windsor Arts. Her first poetry book, Tides of Expectation, was published […]
Phillips has been published in The New York Times, US I, Parks and Points, Kelsey Review, Wisconsin Review, and other journals. She meets with other poets at the Lawrence Library to share their love of reading and writing poetry.
Xu grew up in South Brunswick and is now residing in New Brunswick. She has been writing creatively for fun since she was a young child. She has a background in psychology and cognitive science and has published research on social-emotional learning. She aspires to figure out her career interests one day. She loves to […]
Jones lives in Lawrenceville. His work has been published in the Journal of NJ Poets, Big Hammer, Arbella, Black Swan, and Maelstrom. He has been a featured poet at poetwednesday in Woodbridge, the longest-running poetry series in the United States, and the Knitting Factory in New York City. He has been reading at poetry series […]
Kearns lives in South Brunswick and is a member of her library’s poetry workshop.