Laura Freedgood, open mic, Teaneck, 1/28

Reminder: Here is this Saturday's feature for NJLS!   Come & have FUN! Saturday, January 28, 2012: THE NORTH JERSEY LITERARY SERIES presents LAURA FREEDGOOD Plus Open Mic 8 PM in the Special Events Room of the CLASSIC QUICHE CAFÉ 330 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck , New Jersey FREE   Space and sound are unrivaled by any other venue Hosted by Paul Nash and Denise La Neve Our feature will read two sets, with the open in-between Come early and enjoy a relaxing meal. The quiches are famous, and there are also other wonderful entrees, as well as coffees, teas, & desserts.  Café phone: 201- 692- 0150    LAURA FREEDGOOD’S second book of poems, Slant of the Heart (Pudding House Press) was released in the fall of 2010. Her first collection, Weather Report, was published by Pudding House Press in 2007.  Her poems appear in Descant, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Euphony, Wisconsin Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Heliotrope, The Chrysalis Reader, Meadowlands Review, and other print and online journals.  Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, she was also awarded a three-year poetry grant from the City University of New York, where she worked as an Assistant Professor from 2003 to 2010. She has recently completed a new manuscript of poems entitled What I Would Paint if I Could. Currently retired and living in Montclair, New Jersey, she is able to devote more time to her two passions: poetry and dance.