(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- Jersey City’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Poet Laureate of Jersey City, Ann E. Wallace present Poetry of Crisis and Community on March 2, 2023 at 7:00pm at Froth on Franklin in Jersey City Heights. A Women’s History Month Poetry Reading featuring Jersey City Poet Laureate, Ann Wallace, Theta Pavis, Madhuri Pavamani, and Crystal Letters. This benefit event is part of National Women’s History Month. The admission of $10 will benefit the Earthquake Relief Efforts in Turkey and Syria by Doctors Without Borders.
Register for this event at: http://bit.ly/3Em8VG5.
“We are grateful to Froth on Franklin, which has offered their beautiful coffee house for the benefit,” says Ann E. Wallace | 2023-2024 Poet Laureate of Jersey City, NJ.
The month of March is Women’s History Month, which highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Poetry of Crisis and Community serves as an event bringing together our community while benefiting the Earthquake Relief Efforts in Turkey and Syria during their time of crisis.
“Poetry is an agile and potent tool for responding to crises and current events. Each of the poets featured in Poetry of Crisis and Community uses her voice to reflect on the world around us, whether local or global, in the moment, so it is fitting that this Women’s History Month event will support relief efforts in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes in Syria and Turkey.” Wallace explained.
If you are unable to attend, please consider making a donation to Doctors Without Borders to benefit Turkey & Syria after the Earthquake here.
Jersey City’s Office of Cultural Affairs develops consistent cultural programming and events highlighting Jersey City’s burgeoning arts community while honoring its rich and vibrant cultural history. In addition to event curation and production, the Office of Cultural Affairs provides support and resources to cultural organizations, individual artists, and small businesses to raise the dialogue on the arts in Jersey City and encourage residents and visitors to invest in Jersey City’s arts and culture.
Ann E. Wallace is the 2023-2024 Poet Laureate of Jersey City. A poet, essayist, and chronic illness advocate, she is an English Professor at New Jersey City and host of Saturday Morning Poetry with Ann Wallace for the Native Plant Society of NJ. Her poetry collection Counting by Sevens was published by Main Street Rag (2019). Her work has been featured in Huffington Post, Halfway Down the Stairs, Snapdragon, Wordgathering, Gyroscope Review, and many other journals.
Theta Pavis is a poet, writer and educator. A collection of her poems was shortlisted in 2022 by Yellow Arrow Publishing. Her poems have appeared in The Journal of New Jersey Poets, The Red Wheelbarrow, Mom Egg Review and many others. Her work has been performed onstage by Emotive Fruition (now Poetry Well) in New York. In 2021, the Society of Professional Journalists (NJ chapter) named her “Journalism Educator of the Year.” She was previously Director of Student Media at NJCU. She‘s currently the Associate Director of Strategic Communications at the NJIT and also co-leading a series of workshops for student reporters at Rutgers-Newark.
Madhuri Pavamani writes things. Here and there, she reads them aloud. A daughter of the South - South India and the small southern town of Snellville, Georgia - she is the Director of Paul Weiss's ESG Advisory practice and a 2017 resident of the Rhode Island Writers Colony. When she’s not driving The Kid around the state of NJ for his myriad soccer games, she’s trying to find her chill.
Crystal Davis is a multidisciplinary and mixed media performance artist, poet, painter, freelance writer, editor, and social media marketer. She was born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey and is the author and creator at Crystal Letters (CL), and the Co-Founder and Co-Producer of OpenRoad Poetry (ORP), an artistic partnership between CL and RescuePoetix TM. Her art and writing projects, CL and ORP, have collaborated with arts non-profit organizations and artists across the Tri-State area, nationally, and internationally. Her work is inspired by nature, color, and the utilization of practical craft through art in the visual and written form.
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