Poetry In The Park
Performances by Kathy Kremins, Rachelle Parker, Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, Zenobia.
Kathy Kremins is a Newark, NJ native of Irish immigrant parents and a retired public school teacher. She is the author of The Ethics of Reading: The Broken Beauties of Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, and Nawal el Sadaawi, and her first book of poetry, Undressing the World, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in June 2022. Kathy’s work appears in The Night Heron Barks, The Paterson Literary Review, Moving Words 2020 project, The Stillwater Review, Lavender Review, Sensations Magazine, Divine Feminist: An Anthology of Poetry & Art By Womxn and Non-Binary Folx, and Too Smart to be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers.
Rachelle Parker is a Nassawadox born, Brooklyn bred writer. She was selected the winner of the Furious Flower Poetry Prize and Pat Schneider Poetry Contest. She placed third in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest and was an honorable mention in the Pat Dobler Poetry Award. She is a fellow of Tin House Summer Workshop Poetry, Callaloo Creative Writing at Brown University and Willow Arts Alliance. Her work can be found in Rhino Poetry, About Place Journal, The Adirondack Review, Paterson Literary Review, Lips and The New Jersey Council of Teachers of English Journal. She contributed poems to the anthologies: The BreakBeat Poets Volume 2: Black Girl Magic and The Poeming Pigeon: Poems About Food. She serves as poetry editor for Peregrine. Spring 2021, Rachelle made her photography debut in Orion Magazine.
Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, who also goes by the stage name Ancestral Poetisa, was born in the Bronx, raised in Newark, New Jersey and now lives in Warren County in New Jersey. Exploring topics like lineage, family, and her Latinx roots, Ysabel’s work can be found in various publications like Tinderbox Journal, Anomaly, and Waxwing Literary Journal. She’s a Cantomundo Fellow and has received invitations to attend VONA, Ashbery Home School and BOAAT Press workshops. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and author of Wild Invocations (Get Fresh Books, 2019). Ysabel received her BA from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, NJ and has her MFA in Poetry from Drew University in Madison, NJ. She serves as the Assistant Director for the Poetry Program and Festival at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. She lives at home with her husband, Chris, and two fur babies, Elliott & Bandit.
Zenobia
Bring a blanket or chair.
Free Event
Sponsored by Maplewood Division of Arts and Culture and Maplewood Department of Community Services.