William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County presents:
This program is held at the Williams Center for the Arts,
One Williams Plaza, Rutherford NJ
Call the Rutherford Public Library at 201.939.8600 for more information.
Poetry in Rutherford
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
7:00 PM
Featuring
Rosemarie S. Sprouls and
Michael O’Brien
Plus the words of William Carlos Williams
& open readings from the floor
Rosemarie Sonye Sprouls teaches writing at Richard Stockton College in
Pomona New Jersey, and performs as a celtic harpist around the metropolitan
area. She has an MFA from Brooklyn College.
Her poems have appeared in anthologies and journals such as The
Red Wheel Barrow Anthology, South Jersey Underground, Identity Theory,
Stockpot, Lips, Muse Pie, Bear Swamp Road, ReWrites, The Little Magazine,
Junction, and Lunch.
Michael O’Brien was born in Decatur, IL, went to local schools and earned a
Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He is a professor of English in the
Petrocelli College of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, NJ. His
poems and reviews have appeared in The Literary Review, Lunch, Muse-Pie
Press, Poet, Lips, Context South and numerous other journals. Mike has read
poetry throughout New Jersey and was featured at the William Carlos Williams
Center in Rutherford and at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, The
Village of Waterloo.
Mike’s first book of poetry, Absence Implies Presence, is the result of years of
disciplined effort. His work examines the condition of man, starting from when
our ancestors' gestural language turned into spoken, and then written,
communication. O'Brien's work is wise and thoughtful, concentrating on the
human condition in our own epoch, between the first speaker of the language
and the last. He currently lives in Bloomingdale, NJ with his wife, Moira Shaw
O’Brien, and their cat Saja.
