(HAMMONTON, NJ) -- Murphy Writing of Stockton University presents a virtual reading on March 20 at 7:00pm featuring Peter E. Murphy, Stephanie Cawley, Kathleen Graber and J. C. Todd, live streamed using Zoom. You don’t need to create a Zoom account in order to “attend,” but you do need access to a computer, smart phone or other telephone.
You can tune in from your computer or smart phone by clicking this link. You can view in your browser on your computer or will need to download an app to your phone. You can also call in to listen from a landline or cell phone. Dial 929-436-2866 and enter meeting ID: 372 459 500
If you can’t join them live, they will be posting a recording of the reading to their YouTube within the next week. This is a free event, but RSVP on Facebook is encouraged.
Peter E. Murphy was born in Wales and grew up in New York City where he operated heavy equipment, managed a nightclub and drove a taxi. He is the author of eleven books and chapbooks including The Man Who Never Was, Mean Time and two books of writing prompts. More than a dozen excerpts of his memoir-in-progress, You Go To My Head, have been published as standalone pieces in journals, including “Looking for Thelma,” winner of the 2018 Wilt Nonfiction Chapbook Prize. The founder of Murphy Writing of Stockton University, Peter has received dozens of awards and fellowships and has led hundreds of workshops for writers and teachers.
Stephanie Cawley is a writer, educator and arts administrator from southern New Jersey. She is the author of My Heart But Not My Heart, winner of the Slope Book Prize chosen by Solmaz Sharif, and the chapbook A Wilderness from Gazing Grain Press. Her poems and other writing appear in DIAGRAM, The Boston Review, The PEN Poetry Series and West Branch, among other places. She holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, and she is the Director of Murphy Writing of Stockton University. Her next book Animal Mineral is forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2022. Learn more at stephaniecawley.com.
Kathleen Graber’s most recent collection of poetry, The River Twice, was released this fall from Princeton University Press. Her second collection, The Eternal City, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for poetry in 2010. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She grew up in Wildwood, New Jersey and taught high school and middle school language arts in her hometown before deciding to pursue a graduate degree in creative writing. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.
J. C. Todd, winner of the 2016 Rita Dove Poetry Prize, is author of The Damages of Morning, a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award finalist. Other books include What Space This Body, chapbooks, and artist-book collaborations on refugees and war, On Foot/By Hand and FUBAR. A Pew Fellow in the Arts, she has twice been a Poetry Society of America Awards finalist. Poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Paris Review and the anthologies More Challenges for the Delusional and A Constellation of Kisses. Fellowships include the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Leeway Foundation and artist colonies, most recently Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. A long-time Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway poet, she consults with the Dodge Poetry Program, has taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr College and been a writer-in-residence at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Murphy Writing of Stockton University offers programs in the US and abroad to help writers develop their craft. When writers immerse themselves in these challenging and supportive workshops and an encouraging community, they often make breakthroughs in their art. The Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, founded in 1994, is the flagship program, attracting more than 200 poets and writers from across the country each year. In 2014, Murphy Writing became part of Stockton University.
