It’s Cold Out There

Versaco lives in Trenton and retired from the police department as a community affairs detective 15 years ago.

Essential Stuff

Scott McVay graduated with an AB in English Literature in 1955 at Princeton University, served in Berlin with the CIC on civilian status, worked for Princeton University for 11 years, was engaged for years with seven foundations, was the 16th president and CEO of the Chautauqua Institute, created the McVay Poetry Trail with his wife […]

Along the ‘Neck Road

Joe Sapia, 68-years-old, often writes about “Old Central Jersey.” He lives and writes at Helmetta-Jamesburg, where his maternal family settled around 1900.

Pondering

Kearns lives in South Brunswick and is a member of her library’s poetry workshop.

A Homeless Apollo

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 […]

Promethean

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 […]

The Man on the Corner

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.

My Lucky Ghazal

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 […]

Almost

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.

Summer Trip

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 […]