Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 2 PM
The High Mountain Meadow Poetry Series
at Wayne Public Library
461 Valley Road, Wayne NJ
featuring poets
Joel Lewis
&
Mary Makofske
plus Open Mic to follow
sponsored by the North Jersey Literary Community
and hosted by Denise La Neve and Paul Nash
Joel Lewis is a poet, memorist and essayist living in Hoboken, NJ. His most recent collection of poetry is Well You Needn't, published this year by hanging Loose Press. Previous volumes include Surrender When Leaving Coach and Learning From New Jersey. He edited Bluestones and Salt Hay (Rutgers University Press), an anthology of NJ poets. He has written hundreds of articles ranging from liner notes to a Dave Brubeck anthology to an account of his visit to the Whiffle Ball factory in Connecticut. He received a BA and an MA from William Paterson University where he became well-acquainted with the gustary options along Hamburg Turnpike when cutting classes. He has long resided in Hoboken with his wife, the film scholar Sandy Flitterman-Lewis.
Mary Makofske’s latest books are No Angels (Kelsay, 2023);The Gambler’s Daughter (The Orchard Street Press, 2022); World Enough, and Time (Kelsay, 2017); and Traction (Ashland Poetry, 2011), winner of the Richard Snyder Prize. Her poems have appeared in 75 journals including Poetry, Poetry East, The MacGuffin, American Journal of Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, ONE ART, Main Street Rag, The Stillwater Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review, and in 23 anthologies. She received the 2024 William Matthews Poetry Prize from Asheville Poetry Review, the Hudson-Fowler Poetry Prize from Slant, the Atlanta Review Poetry Prize, the New Millennium Writings Poetry Prize, and the Littoral Press Broadside Prize. www.marymakofske.com
THEME: OPEN MIC / FEATURES
HOST: Denise La Neve and Paul Nash
FEATURES: Joel Lewis & Mary Makofske
PRICE: FREE
CONTACT: njlspoetry@yahoo.com
