JEE LEONG KOH and OCEAN VUONG 2/1

Dear Family & Friends,

I continue to host this excellent series, which continues into its seventh year, so please come by for this upcoming reading.  Mark your calendars now!

NOTE that this series is held on FIRST Wednesdays each month.

The WCW Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County is pleased to invite the international poets Jee Leong Koh and Ocean Vuong as the feature on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 7:00 p. m.  As usual this monthly program will also feature the words of William Carlos Williams, this time in a presentation by me, John J. Trause, on Herbert Leibowitz's biography of WCW, Something Urgent I Have to Say to Yo , which was published recently by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  We conclude with open readings from the floor.  No advanced registration is required and all poets and poetry lovers are invited.  We hold the WCW Poetry Cooperative readings in the upstairs Terrace of Williams Center for the Arts (www.williamscenter.org) located at 1 Williams Plaza in Rutherford, N. J.

Also, please remember that noted poet Jim Klein leads our peer-to-peer poetry workshops (Red Wheelbarrow Poets) on Wednesdays (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th) when we do not have the readings at 7 p. m.  NOTE that these have now been relocated to GainVille Learning Center and Café (http://www.gaincontact.com):

GainVille Learning Center and Café

17 Ames Avenue
Rutherford, NJ 07070

Tel. (201) 507-1800  /  Fax (201) 507-1888 

Also, please see the Red Wheelbarrow website here:

redwheelbarrowpoets.wordpress.com

Remember that the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Poets recently published volume 4 of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, including six poems of mine, those of many others associated with the WCW Poetry Cooperative and literary life in Rutherford, some excellent essays (one by me), and reflections on Dr. Williams.  Copies of the anthology are on sale now, so please contact the editors at redwheelbarrowpoets@yahoo.com, if you would like more information or like to purchase a copy or two.  They make excellent birthday or holiday gifts for poetry lovers and anyone who loves literature and history.

Please come out and support these creative endeavors.

Thank you.

Love & Peace,

John Trause