The First Four Years of Prompts

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Noyes Arts Garage, Open Mic, Poetry, Stockton University, World Above, Writing Prompts

Poets and Poetry-lovers,

I present you The First Four Years of Prompts of the World Above Free Poetry Series.

Thank you to Barbara Daniels for keeping us inspired each month.

 

World Above Welcomes Peter E. Murphy~Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 7pm

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Murphy Writing of Stockton University, Noyes Arts Garage, Open Mic, Peter E. Murphy, Poetry, South Jersey Poets Collective, Stubborn Child, World Above

January 2019 marks World Above’s four-year anniversary as a collaboration with Stockton University, and we are fortunate to host Peter E. Murphy, Founder of Murphy Writing of Stockton University and the progenitor of nearly all things poetry in South Jersey.

Join us on Wednesday, January 16, 2019, at 7:00pm for a special anniversary reading, featuring Peter E. Murphy at Stockton University’s Noyes Arts Garage (2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401). There will be books, cake, and literary raffle prizes!

Our usual Open Mic, where participants read one poem that is less than two minutes long, will run from 7:00pm-7:45pm. Please arrive by 6:50pm to secure a spot in the Open.

After the break, participants will return to a free take-home writing prompt and download instructions for a digital anthology of the past four year’s prompts penned by Barbara Daniels.

Then, Peter E. Murphy will read and sign books.

Peter E. Murphy was born in Wales and grew up in New York City where he operated heavy equipment, managed a nightclub and drove a cab. He is the author of ten books and chapbooks including two books of writing prompts and Stubborn Child, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. More than a dozen excerpts of his memoir-in-progress, You Go To My Head, have been published as standalone pieces in literary magazines including “Looking for Thelma,” winner of the 2018 Wilt Nonfiction Chapbook Prize. The founder of Murphy Writing of Stockton University, Peter has received dozens of awards and fellowships and has led hundreds of workshops for writers and teachers.

World Above is made possible with support from The Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University, Stockton’s Center for Community Engagement, and the Atlantic City Arts Foundation.

Please invite your friends to this event, join and share it on Facebook (http://wwwfacebook.com/sjpoets), and link our website (https://sjpoets.wordpress.com) to your social media.

Questions about this series or to apply to be a featured poet, please contact Emari DiGiorgio.

World Above Welcomes Echezonachukwu Nduka~Wednesday, December 12th, 7pm

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Atlantic Cape Community College, Atlantic City, Fiction Writer, Music, Musicologist, Nigerian Poet, Noyes Arts Garage, Open Mic, Pianist, Poetry, SJ Poets, Stockton University, World Above

World Above Welcomes Shamar Hill~Wednesday, August 8th, 7pm

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Cave Canem, Fine Arts Work Center, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Noyes Arts Garage, Poetry, Shamar Hill, SJ Poets, Stockton University

On Wednesday, August 15, 2018, at 7:00pm the South Jersey Poets Collective welcomes Shamar Hill as the featured poet to World Above Free Poetry Night at Stockton University’s Noyes Arts Garage (2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401).

Our usual Open Mic, where participants read one poem that is less than two minutes long, will run from 7:00pm-8:00pm. Please arrive by 6:50pm to secure a spot in the Open.

After the break, participants will return to a free take-home writing prompt; then, Shamar Hill will read.

Shamar Hill, a Cave Canem Fellow, is the recipient of numerous awards, including a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a scholarship from Fine Arts Work Center. He has been published or has work forthcoming in: Washington Square Review, Day One, Southern Humanities Review, Kenyon Review Online, and Vinyl. He is working on his first poetry collection, Photographs of an Imagined Childhood, and a memoir, In Defiance of All True Things.

This series is made possible with support from The Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University, Stockton University’s Center for Community Engagement, and the Atlantic City Arts Foundation.

World Above Welcomes Kirwyn Sutherland, Wednesday, 6/20/18, 7pm

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APIARY, Blackness: A Definition Story, Gigantic Sequins, Kirwyn Sutherland, Noyes Arts Garage, Open Mic, Poetry, SJ Poets, Stockton University, WusGood Magazine

On Wednesday, June 20, 2018, at 7:00pm the South Jersey Poets Collective welcomes Kirwyn Sutherland as the featured poet to World Above Free Poetry Night at Stockton University’s Noyes Arts Garage (2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401).

 

Our usual Open Mic, where participants read one poem that is less than two minutes long, will run from 7:00pm-8:00pm. Please arrive by 6:50pm to secure a spot in the Open.

 

After the break, participants will return to a free take-home writing prompt; then, Kirwyn Sutherland will read.

 

Kirwyn Sutherland is a Poet and Clinical Researcher whose work seeks to interrogate and push against systems of oppression that subjugate black people while constructing a future blackness which is personal, vulnerable, aware, and ready. Kirwyn is a fellow of The Watering Hole Poetry Retreat and his work has been published in APIARY, BlueShift Journal, Drunkinamidnightchoir, Bedfellows Magazine, and elsewhere. Kirwyn has served as Poetry editor for APIARY and is currently serving as book reviewer for WusGood Magazine and a reader for Gigantic Sequins Magazine. His chapbook Blackness: A Definition Story is forthcoming in 2018 with Thread Makes Blanket!

World Above Welcomes Bernadette McBride, Wednesday, 5/16/18, 7pm

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Aldrich Press, Bernadette McBride, Everything Counts, Open Mic, Poetry, Schuylkill Valley Journal, SJ Poets, South Jersey Poets Collective, Stockton University

On Wednesday, May 16, 2018, at 7:00pm the South Jersey Poets Collective welcomes Bernadette McBride as the featured poet to World Above Free Poetry Night at Stockton University’s Noyes Arts Garage (2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401).

Our usual Open Mic, where participants read one poem that is less than two minutes long, will run from 7:00pm-8:00pm. Please arrive by 6:50pm to secure a spot. And this month, World Above founder Aubrey Rahab will be hosting the Open!!

The cafe should be open, and parking vouchers will be available.

After the break, participants will return to a free take-home writing prompt; then, Bernadette McBride will read.

Bernadette McBride, author of three full-length poetry collections and the forthcoming Everything Counts (Aldrich Press), has taught creative writing and literature at Temple University and is poetry editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Pennsylvania county Poet Laureate, and poetry winner, second place, for the International Ray Bradbury Writing Award, her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including in the UK, Canada, and on PRI’s The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. She welcomes your visit at bernadettemcbrideblog.wordpress.com.

Questions about this series or to apply to be a featured poet, please contact Emari DiGiorgio: emari.digiorgio@stockton.edu.

World Above Welcomes Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, Wednesday, 4/25/18, 7pm

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CantoMundo, Noyes Arts Garage, Open Mic, Poetry, SJ Poets, South Jersey Poets Collective, Stockton University, VONA, World Above, Ysabel Y. Gonzalez

On Wednesday, April 25, 2018, at 7:00pm the South Jersey Poets Collective welcomes Ysabel Y. Gonzalez as the featured poet to World Above Free Poetry Night at Stockton University’s Noyes Arts Garage (2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401).

Our usual Open Mic, where participants read one poem that is less than two minutes long, will run from 7:00pm-8:00pm. Please arrive by 6:50pm to secure a spot in the Open. The cafe should be open, and parking vouchers will be available.

After the break, participants will return to a free take-home writing prompt; then, Ysabel Y. Gonzalez will read.

Newark, NJ native Ysabel Y. Gonzalez received her BA from Rutgers University and an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. Ysabel has received invitations to attend VONA, Tin House, Ashbery Home School, and BOAAT Press workshops. She’s a CantoMundo Fellow and has been published in the Paterson Literary Review, Tinderbox Journal, Anomaly, Vinyl, It was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop, Wide Shore, Waxwing Literary Journal, and others.

Questions about this series or to apply to be a featured poet, please contact Emari DiGiorgio: emari.digiorgio@stockton.edu.

World Above Welcomes John Hoppenthaler, Wednesday, 3/28/18, 7pm

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A Poetry Congeries, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, Connotation Press, Domestic Garden, John Hoppenthaler, Lives of Water, Noyes Arts Garage, Poetry, SJ Poets, Stockton University, World Above

On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, at 7:00pm the South Jersey Poets Collective welcomes John Hoppenthaler as the featured poet to World Above Free Poetry Night at Stockton University’s Noyes Arts Garage (2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401).

The evening starts with an Open Mic, where participants read one poem that is less than two minutes long. After the break, participants will return to a free take-home writing prompt; then, John Hoppenthaler will read.

John Hoppenthaler is the author of three books of poetry, Lives of Water, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, and Domestic Garden, all with Carnegie Mellon University Press. With Kazim Ali, he has co-edited Jean Valentine: This World Company (Michigan UP, 2012). His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, Christian Science Monitor, Blackbird, The Literary Review, Southeast Review, among others. His essays, interviews, and essay/reviews appear in such journals as Arts & Letters, Southeast Review, Chelsea, Bellingham Review, Pleiades, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, North Carolina Literary Review, Cortland Review, and Kestrel, where he served as Poetry Editor for eleven years. He currently edits “A Poetry Congeries” at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact and is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at East Carolina University.

World Above Welcomes Cynthia Dewi Oka

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cynthia dewi oka, Nomad of Salt and Hard Water, Northwestern University Press, Open Mic, Poetry, Salvage, Sanctuary: A Migrant Poetry Workshop, Thread Makes Blanket, VONA

On Wednesday, January 24, 2018, at 7pm the South Jersey Poets Collective welcomes Cynthia Dewi Oka as the featured poet to World Above Free Poetry Night at Stockton University’s Noyes Arts Garage (2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401).

 

The evening includes an Open Mic, where participants read one poem that is less than two minutes long. Please arrive by 6:50pm to secure a spot in the Open.

 

After the break, participants will return to a free take-home writing prompt; then, Cynthia Dewi Oka will read.

 

Cynthia Dewi Oka is a poet and the author of Salvage (Northwestern University Press, 2017) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016). A two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee, she has received the Fifth Wednesday Journal’s Editor’s Prize in Poetry, scholarships from Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and Vermont Studio Center, and the Leeway Foundation Art and Change grant, with which she created Sanctuary: A Migrant Poetry Workshop for immigrant poets in Philadelphia. Her poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Guernica, Black Renaissance Noire, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Blueshift Journal, Best of Kweli: An Aster(ix) Anthology, and elsewhere. Originally born and raised in Bali, Indonesia, she is currently based in South Jersey and works as a community organizer with the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia. She is an MFA candidate at Warren Wilson College. 

World Above Welcomes R.A. Villanueva~Wednesday, 12/13, 7pm

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Kundiman Fellow, Noyes Arts Garage, Poetry, R.A. Villanueva, Reliquaria, SJ Poets, Stockton University, Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art

On Wednesday, December 13th at 7pm the South Jersey Poets Collective welcomes R.A. Villanueva as the featured poet to World Above Free Poetry Night at Stockton University’s Noyes Arts Garage (2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401).

The evening includes an Open Mic, where participants read one poem that is less than two minutes long. Please arrive by 6:50pm to secure a spot in the Open. After the break, participants will return to a free take-home writing prompt; then, R.A. Villanueva will read.

Writer, poet, translator, scholar, R.A. Villanueva is the author of Reliquaria (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). A recipient of honors and fellowships from the Forward Prizes, Kundiman, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and The Asian American Literary Review, Villanueva’s work has also been anthologized in Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology. He holds graduate degrees from Rutgers University and New York University. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, he currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and London, England.