Award-Winning NJ Poet to Read from
New Book in September
BJ Ward, the award – winning NJ poet will
have the Eastern NJ Release Reading for his new book at the Madison Public
Library on Saturday, September 14th at 2pm. BJ Ward is the author of Jackleg Opera; Collected Poems 1990-2013, which is being released
in September as part of the IO Poetry Series.
His other books are Gravedigger’s
Birthday (a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize), 17 Love Poems with No Despair and Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands. All are published by North Atlantic Books
(Berkeley, CA) and distributed internationally by Random House.
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Mr.
Ward is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize for Poetry and two Distinguished
Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has also
been awarded four full fellowships from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to
live and work at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. One of his poems, “For the Children of the
World Trade Center Victims,” was cast in bronze and acquired for part of the
permanent collection at Grounds for Sculpture, an outdoor sculpture museum in
Hamilton, NJ.
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As
an author, BJ Ward’s poetry has been featured on National Public Radio’s “The
Writer’s Almanac,” New Jersey Network’s “State of the Arts,” and the website
Poetry Daily, as well as in publications such as Poetry, The New York Times,
TriQuarterly, Green Mountains Review and many more. As a Teacher: Mr. Ward has received the
Governor’s Award in Arts Education from state of New Jersey and has been
designated Distinguished Teaching Artist of the Year by Playwrights’ Theatre of
New Jersey for his work in the New Jersey Writers Project. For three years he served as one of the
poetry instructors at the New Jersey Governor’s School for the Arts. He is an Assistant Professor at Warren County Community College in the
Creative Writing department.
A reception will follow the reading. To
register for this free event, please call (973) 377-0722, Ext. 2.
