Harriet Shenkman earned a Ph.D. from Fordham University. She is a professor emerita at Bronx Community College, City University of New York. She holds an M.Ed. from Duke University. Her poetry awards include the Women’s National Book Association Annual Writing Contest in Poetry and the Women Who Write International Poetry and Short Prose Contest. Her new poetry collection, Wonder Wheel, is published by Grayson Books. She is a first generation American born and raised in Brooklyn.

B. Fulton Jennes is Poet Laureate Emerita of Ridgefield, CT. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies, including CALYX, Rust & Moth, and SWWIM. Her collection Blinded Birds (Finishing Line Press) received the 2022 International Book Award for a poetry chapbook. Another chapbook, FLOWN, an elegy for her late sister, will be published by Porkbelly Press in April. Jennes is a multiple-time Pushcart Prize nominee.

Plus open mic.

Coffee and light refreshments provided.

Second floor of library