The Sunday poetry series is back at the South Brunswick Library beginning this week, Sept. 16, at 2 p.m., featuring Gretna Wilkinson. Read the Time Off story on it here.
Here is the release:
Gretna Wilkinson — whose poetry speaks to issues of human suffering, children and love — will be the featured reader on September 16 when South Brunswick’s monthly series of Sunday poetry readings resumes following a summer hiatus.
The program, sponsored by the South Brunswick Arts Commission, in cooperation with the South Brunswick Public Library, starts at 2 p.m. in the Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction.
Born and raised in Guyana, South America, Wilkinson works also address aspects of Guyanese culture. She gives several performances each year and works as a professor in the English Department at County College of Morris in New Jersey. As a Guyanese African American, she specializes in African American Literature and wrote her dissertation on the works of Gwendolyn Brooks, first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in the U.S.A.
Ms. Wilkinson began her teaching career as a missionary teacher in Guyana. She is published in various publications including Poets of New Jersey From Colonial to Contemporary, and Spindrift. A Senior Fellow of the Southern Regional Educational Board, she also teaches creative writing in the Visual and Performing Arts Academy of Red Bank Regional High School.
The Sunday poetry readings will run through May 2008 and also feature:
Oct. 14 — Nancy Scott and Maxine Susman
Nov. 18 — Diane Lockward
Dec. 16 — Sam Friedman
Jan. 20 -– Hank Kalet
Feb. 17 — TBA
March 16 — Jack Wiler
April 20 — TBA
May 18 — TBA
For more information, including directions, contact the South Brunswick Arts Commission at (732) 329-4000, ext 7635, or Hank Kalet at otherhalf@comcast.net.
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