Save the Date! The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Readings Featuring Joel Allegretti and Rick Mullin, Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 7 PM
Dear poet,
Join us on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, at 7 p.m. at The Felician University Little Theater, 230 Montross Avenue, Rutherford, NJ 07070, for a fantastic poetry reading, featuring the poets Joel Allegretti and Rick Mullin. In addition, we’ll have Montclair High School Poets reading, plus the best open mic in New York and New Jersey.
At the reading, we will have the features’ books for sale, as well as copies of RWB #18 in case you don’t have one. Please see Arthur to get your copy or order online here. Save 20% with code GHOSTWRITER20, now through October 31.
Joel Allegretti is the author of, most recently, Let’s All Be Happy Today (The Opiate Books, 2025), a collection of short stories. In addition, he has published six books and chapbooks of poetry and Our Dolphin (Thrice Publishing, 2016), a novella. His second collection of poems, Father Silicon (The Poet’s Press, 2006), was selected by The Kansas City Star as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006.
He is the editor of Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015) and has published poems and short stories in The New York Quarterly, Barrow Street, Gargoyle, Smartish Pace, PANK, The MacGuffin, The Adroit Journal, and Pennsylvania Literary Journal, among others. Allegretti is a member of the Academy of American Poets and ASCAP.
Rick Mullin is a retired business journalist and long-time (now full time) painter and aspiring poet. His books include Soutine, a biographical novel in terza rima about the painter Chaim Soutine, Sonnets from the Voyage of the Beagle, and The Basilisk, all published by Dos Madres Press; Lullaby and Wheel, published by Kelsay Books; and Huncke, 2nd edition, published by Exot Books. His poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The New Criterion, American Arts Quarterly, Bad Lilies, The Dark Horse, and Rabbit Ears, TV Poems. He is represented by Viridian Galleries in New York City. His new collection, Grotesque Singers, was published earlier this year by Dos Madres Press.
To get to The Little Theater from New York City, follow the instructions below. You can use this link to plan the trip from NYC to Rutherford (select "Towns" tab): https://www.njtransit.com/bus-to
Directions to take the 190 bus from NYC
Go to the Port Authority Bus Terminal on 40 street & 8th Avenue. If you take the subway, the A and C are the closest. Buy a ticket in advance for the 190 express bus to Rutherford, Zone 3, at the window or from the machines (you can't buy from the driver). One adult ticket costs $5.15.
Go to Gate 232 (upstairs); there might be a line as it will be rush hour by the time you get there. Get on the Rutherford Express line (second door). The reading starts at 7 p.m., but we recommend getting on the bus around 6 p.m. to account for traffic in the Lincoln Tunnel.
Tell the driver you need to get off at Montross Avenue, and they will stop there. It's the 3rd bus stop after the Rutherford Train Station. If you get to Carmita Avenue, that's too far.
The Little Theater is just a short walk from the bus stop uphill on Montross Avenue. Cross Union Avenue and walk uphill on Montross about 5 minutes. The building is in the back of a large parking lot across from Felician University.
See you all in person on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, at 7 PM!
THEME: OPEN MIC / FEATURES
HOST: The Red Wheelbarrow Poets
FEATURES: Joel Allegretti and Rick Mullin
PRICE: FREE / redwheelbarrowpoets.org
CONTACT: FB - The Red Wheelbarrow Poets / redwheelbarrowpoets@gmail.com
