Featuring Claudia Serea, Maria Haro, and John J. Trause

Hosted by George Wallace

Plus open mic

21+

$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.

John J. Trause, the Director of Oradell Public Library, is the author of six books of poetry, including Exercises in High Treason (great weather for MEDIA, 2016), a book of fictive translations, found poems, and manipulated texts, and one of parody, Latter-Day Litany (Éditions élastiques, 1996), the latter staged Off Broadway.  His translations, poetry, and visual work appear internationally in many journals and anthologies, including The Antioch Review, the artists' periodical Crossings, the Dada journal Maintenant, the journal Offerta Speciale, the great weather for MEDIA anthologies It’s Animal but Merciful (2012), I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand (2014), and Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea (2019), and Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015).  He is a founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, N. J., and the former host and curator of its monthly reading series.

Claudia Serea’s poems have appeared in Field, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She has published five poetry collections, most recently Twoxism, a collaboration with photographer Maria Haro (8th House Publishing, 2018). Serea co-hosts The Williams Readings in Rutherford, NJ, and she is a founding editor of National Translation Month.

The afternoon will feature a special appearance by Serea’s writing collaborator Maria Haro. Haro grew up in Madrid, Spain, where she studied fine arts and graphic design. She graduated from the School of Graphic Communications and moved to New York City in 1994. She has won several global awards as a Creative Director in pharma advertising. She collaborates with other artists on projects that inspire her, and you can find her photos on Instagram.