FANWOOD, NJ – The Carriage House Poetry Series invites the public to a free event on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 8:00 p.m., featuring distinguished poets Darla Himeles and James Arthur in the Kuran Arts Center on Watson Road, off North Martine Avenue, adjacent to Fanwood Borough Hall. (GPS use 75 N. Martine Avenue).
Darla Himeles has roots in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Maine. Her work has been published in various journals. She is an associate editor for The Stillwater Review and holds an AB in English from Bryn Mawr College and an MFA in poetry and translation from Drew University. She is currently a doctoral candidate in American literature at Temple University, where she teaches undergraduate poetry workshops, first-year writing, and literature classes. Darla lives in Philadelphia with her wife and daughter and is the author of the chapbook Flesh Enough.
James Arthur was born in Connecticut and grew up in Canada. He is the author of several poetry collections, including The Suicide’s Son; Charms Against Lightning, and Hundred Acre Wood. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, and The London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to Northern Ireland, and a visiting fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University.
The Carriage House Poetry Series was founded in 1998 at the Patricia Kuran Arts Center, an historic 19th century Gothic Revival structure that was once a carriage house, hence the name of the series. The Sept. 17 reading is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured performances, so individuals are invited to read one poem of their choice.
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