(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, will host a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on Sunday, December 8, 2024 at 4:00pm at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center. The event will feature music themed poetry by Winifred Hughes and Lynn Levin. Their readings will be followed by an open mic available to up to 10 audience members who would like to read their original poetry.
Lynn Levin is a poet, writer, and an adjunct professor of English at Drexel University. Called one of the most “poignantly witty voices of our time” (Bucks County Community College), she is the author of nine books, most recently the short story collection House Parties (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023), named one of the best books of summer by Philadelphia Magazine, and the poetry collections The Minor Virtues (Ragged Sky, 2020) and Miss Plastique (Ragged Sky, 2013). Her poetry, fiction, essays, and translations have appeared in Boulevard, Ploughshares, Smartish Pace, Scientific American, Massachusetts Review, The Saturday Evening Post, Michigan Quarterly Review, and other places.
Lynn Levin
Winifred Hughes is the author of The Village of New Ghosts, winner of the 2024 Henry Morgenthau III poetry award from Passager Books, as well as two chapbooks, Frost Flowers and Nine-Bend Bridge. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Atlanta Review, and International Poetry Review, among other journals. “The Scene Without” was overall poetry winner in the competition for the 2023 Fish Anthology, chosen by Billy Collins and published in Bantry, Ireland. She is a long-time member of U.S. 1 Poets’ Cooperative and former managing editor of U.S. 1 Worksheets.
Winifred Hughes
Princeton Makes is a cooperative comprised of 37 local artists who work across a range of artistic genres, including painting, drawing, stained glass, sculpture, textiles, and jewelry. Customers will be able to support local artists by shopping for a wide variety of art, including large paintings, prints, custom-made greeting cards, stained glass lamps and window hangings, jewelry in a variety of designs and patterns, and more.
Ragged Sky is a small, highly selective cooperative press. They work with their authors closely. Authors retain copyright and they use our experience and professional resources to support the author’s work through the editing, production, and design process. Ragged Sky Press has historically focused on mature voices, overlooked poets, and women's perspectives.
