PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW READING SERIES TIME OF 3:00 - 5:00 PM

Celebrating National Translation Month with John J. Trause and Raymond Turco

Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson

Plus open mic

21+, doors open at 3:00 pm

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

Raymond Alexander Turco is a poet and playwright born in Hackensack, NJ. He writes poems in English and Italian and has a special affinity for European history, travel, surrealism, magical realism, and absurdism. The author of nine stageplays, he has published his poetry in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and with Bordighera Press, and Ovunque Siamo Press.

John J. Trause, the Director of Oradell Public Library, New Jersey, is the author of books including Why Sing? (Sensitive Skin Press), a book of traditional and experimental poems; Picture This: For Your Eyes and Ears (Dos Madres Press), a book of poems on art, film, and photography; and Exercises in High Treason (great weather for MEDIA), a book of fictive translations, found poems, and manipulated texts. His work appears internationally in many journals and anthologies, including The Antioch Review, Crossings, Maintenant, and Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015). His work also appears in the great weather for MEDIA anthologies It’s Animal but Merciful (2012), I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand (2014), Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea (2019), Paper Teller Diorama (2021), and A Shape Produced by a Curve (2023).

Photograph of John J. Trause by Jill Greenberg