Opening Reception & Poetry Reading
Thursday, March 14 5-7 p.m.
Millstone River Gallery
Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center
100 Plainsboro Road
Plainsboro, NJ 08536
Two Flyers, Two Previews of Gifts From the Sea!
Congrats to Lois Marie Harrod, who read on Monday, November 12 with Tony Gruenwald as part of the Poets at the Library series in the Princeton Public Library. We hear it was a great success, standing room only!
November 8-9, 2018, the Cools went on a special fall retreat to Easton, Pennsylvania where Cool member Juditha recently moved with husband Jim. Two full days of workshopping, reading, walking, planning.
Cool Women Reading “Sourland Dialogues”
for Sourland Conservancy Train Station Series
Thursday, November 1, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm.
As part of the Sourland Consevancy 2018 Train Station Series, Cool Women Poets will read on Thursday, November 1, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm. at the Hopewell Train Station, 2 Railroad Place, Hopewell, New Jersey. Suggested donation $5.00 at the door. The members of the nine-women poetry critique and performance group will read three rounds of poems, creating a jazz conversation with and about plants, animals and people in the Sourlands. For more information call 609-309-5155. To register, follow this link: http://tiny.cc/SCCoolWomen
And…
Lost and Found Edges. . . Cool Women at Ellarslie Poetry Reading
The Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie in Cadwalader Park
Sunday, November 18, 2018, 4 pm
Free with donation
Cool Women Poets is a Central Jersey-based, nine-member poetry critique and performance group, which has been meeting for 24 years. The members are widely published individually and as a group. Their performances are theme based improvisations and the result is a jazz-like poetic performance. The reading is 
a benefit for the Trenton Museum Society as the society celebrates its 40th anniversary and will celebrate the current Garden State Water Color Society exhibition. The theme for this reading is Lost and Found Edges which is a watercolor technique used to create and suggest movement. (Watercolor of Ellarslie by Thomas Malloy).
Last weekend on September 29, a plaque commemorating Lois Marie Harrod’s poem “The Spineless” was unveiled on the Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail at the D&R Greenway, in Princeton. A sizeable gathering hiked up to hear Lois read her poem, and refreshments were then served on the King Terrace, where congratulatory remarks were made by Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert. Two master artisans were also recognized, woodworker David Robinson, who produced eight benches for the trail, and sign maker George Zienowicz, who has done all fifty of the poetry plaques. “The Spineless” celebrates nature with a wink to our own humanity. This is the 50th poem on the Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail that now has equal representation by men and women spanning centuries of thought.
A Dodge poet, 3-time recipient of a New Jersey Council on the Arts fellowship, 5-time recipient of fellowships to the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Lois has spent her life writing and teaching. Resident of Hopewell borough since 1972, she is the author of 16 books of poetry and is widely published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3. Read her online work at http://www.loismarieharrod.org.
Congratulations to Eloise on receiving a Governor’s Award in Arts Education! She was nominated by Young Audiences of New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania and on May 22 was the recipient of a Distinguished Service Award. Thank you for all you do to bring the arts to all children!
The Poem in Your Pocket Day celebration at the Hopewell branch of the Mercer County Library in Pennington was an unqualified success. Short poems both funny and serious were shared by young and old alike. First to read was Maura Whalen, a student at the Princeton Friends School. Maura not only read one of her poems but also sang a poem by Stephen Sondheim (note: she also has a great voice!). We had hoped more students would attend but the unusual (!) spring weather might have kept them away. After the Cools read some of their own as well as other short poem favorites, ten members of the audience also read, all with great enthusiasm, poems they had brought or ones we had supplied. One local poet, Bill Waters, also took photos of the event which are displayed below.
You are invited to
Celebrate April, Poetry Month
with
a Poem-in-Your-Pocket
Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 3-4 pm
Hopewell Branch of the Mercer Country Library
245 Pennington-Titusville Road
Pennington, NJ 08534
Free and Open to the Public
Phone 609-737-2610
Bring a poem of 15 or fewer lines, your own or a favorite.
Read it with local 5th, 6th and 7th graders,
members of the poetry and critique group COOL WOMEN
and community members. Everyone invited.
Yes, there will be an open mike and refreshments.
Book sale profits go to the library.
The Cool Women will read on Saturday, March 3, 2018 from 12 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the New Brunswick Free Public Library, 60 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, phone (732) 745-5108. The theme for the reading is “Mud Season.” The reading is part of the Friends of the New Brunswick Free Public Library 2017-18 Event Series and will be held in the Carl T. Valenti Community Room. The Friends of the Library present programs on the first Saturday of the month for most months between October 2017 and June 2018. For details, please visit https://www.nbfpl.org/about/friends-of-the-library.
