Poetry Reading by Award-Winning Poet Wanda Praisner

Wanda Praisner, winner of the 2017 New Jersey Poets Prize, will read poems from her latest book, "Natirar," at Bernardsville Public Library on Wednesday, June 14 at 7:00 pm. The poems describe her daily visits to the park the first year it opened and how the seasons of the park intertwine with those of her life. Her books will be available for purchase and signing.

Ms. Praisner, a recipient of fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Dodge Foundation, the Provincetown Fine Arts Center and VCCA, has won the Egan Award, Princemere Prize, Kudzu Contest, First Prize in Poetry at the College of NJ Writers’ Conference, and, just this year, the New Jersey Poets Prize. An eleven-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she has been a featured reader at the Governor’s Conference on the Arts and the Dodge Festival. Her work has appeared in Atlanta Review, Lullwater Review, New York Magazine, and Prairie Schooner.

She is the author of many previous books including "A Fine and Bitter Snow" (Palanquin Press, USCA, 2003), "On the Bittersweet Avenues of Pomona" (Winner, Spire Press Chapbook Contest, 2006), "Where the Dead Are" (CavanKerry Press, 2013), and "Sometimes When Something Is Singing" (Antrim House, 2014). In 2010, she was inducted into the Curtis High School of Fame, and in 2012, she received an Alumni Fellow Award from Wagner College. Before becoming a resident poet for the NJ State Council on the Arts, she taught in the New York City System, in Santa Monica, North Caldwell and, for twenty years, at the School of Saint Elizabeth in Bernardsville. She is a resident of Bedminster, where she lives with her husband.

There is no charge to attend the program; advance sign-up is requested, but not required. Register online at www.bernardsvillelibrary.org and follow the link from Adult Programs, or call the library at 908-766-0118 to sign up.