@hobokenmuseum Please join the Hoboken Historical Museum and Poet In Residence Danny Shot to celebrate CavanKerry 25 (plus one) years!
As a not-for-profit literary press serving art and community, CavanKerry Press is committed to expanding the reach of poetry and other fine literature to a general readership by publishing works that explore the emotional and psychological landscapes of everyday life.
Founded in 2000 in Fort Lee, New Jersey by Joan Cusack Handler and Florenz Eisman, CavanKerry began with the aim to demystify poetry. The idea has grown and the press has continued to bring poetry to people where they live, work, and receive services.
As of March 2026, CavanKerry Press has published 136 volumes. Our 96 authors are geographically, culturally, economically, and stylistically diverse. The list of authors includes Hoboken Historical Museum’s own Danny Shot.
Our features include:
Joan Cusack Handler is a poet, memoirist, and psychologist. With Gabriel Cleveland, she coedited Places We Return To, an anthology of selections from the first 100 books published by CavanKerry Press, the press she founded in 2000 and continues to serve as publisher. Her poems are widely published and have received awards from Boston Review and five Pushcart nominations. She has published three verse memoirs.
Gabriel Cleveland is a poet and fiction writer with an MFA in Poetry from the Solstice Creative Writing Program. Along with Joan Cusack Handler, he co-edited Places We Return To, a 20th Anniversary retrospective on the publishing history of CavanKerry Press.
Catherine Doty is a poet, artist, and teacher from Paterson, New Jersey. She is the author of two volumes of poems with CavanKerry Press: Momentum (2004), winner of a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, and Wonderama (2021), winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize.
Joseph O. Legaspi authored the collections Amphibian, Threshold, and Imago and the chapbooks Postcards; Aviary, Bestiary; and Subways. He works at Columbia University, teaches at Fordham University, and resides in Queens, New York.
Sunday March 22
4 pm
Hoboken Historical Museum
Free admission
THEME: OPEN MIC / FEATURES
HOST: Danny Shot
FEATURES: Joan Cusack Handler, Gabriel Cleveland, Catherine Doty, & Joseph O. Legaspi
PRICE: FREE
CONTACT: @hobokenmuseum
