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Poetry Reading and Open Mic

Local poets will each share a short poetry reading. After, we invite you to share your own work.

March's poets include Kathy Kremins and George Witte.

Kathy Kremins is a poet, photographer, and independent scholar. She is a retired NJ public school teacher and coach and holds a doctorate from Drew University. She has three poetry chapbooks: Unrehearsed with Toma Zbrizher (Two Key Customs, 2025), Seamus & His Smalls (Two Key Customs, 2023), and Undressing the World (Finishing Line Press, 2022). Her first full-length book of poetry, The Curve of Things, was published by CavanKerry Press in May 2024.  Her second collection, Sipping a Cloud, is forthcoming from Read Furiously in 2026. She is the author of The Ethics of Reading: The Broken Beauties of Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, and Nawal el Sadaawi (2010) and an essay contributor to Too Smart to be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers (2008). She is also an editor for NJ Audubon Magazine.

George Witte’s four collections are An Abundance of Caution (Unbound Edition Press, 2023), Does She Have a Name?, Deniability, and The Apparitioners.  New poems are published or forthcoming in Colosseum, Divagations, Nimrod, On the Seawall, and Revel. He lives with his family in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

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