Poets at the Library: Lois Marie Harrod and Wanda S. Praisner

This recording is presented in partnership by Princeton Public Library, US 1 Poets’ Cooperative and Delaware Valley Poets. Featured poets Lois Marie Harrod and Wanda S. Praisner read from their works for 20 minutes each, followed by an open-mic session.

Harrod’s 17th collection “Woman” was published early this year and her chapbook “Spat” is slated to come out in the spring. Her “Nightmares of the Minor Poet” was published in June 2016 and her chapbook “And She Took the Heart” was published in January 2016. “Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis” and the chapbook “How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth” were published in 2013. A Dodge poet, she is published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3. She teaches at the Evergreen Forum in Princeton. Links to her online work http://www.loismarieharrod.org

Praisner, a recipient of fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Dodge Foundation, PFAWC, and VCCA, has work in Atlanta Review, Lullwater Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her fifth book is “Natirar” and her sixth is “To Illuminate the Way.” A resident poet for the state, she’s received 15 Pushcart Prize nominations, the Egan Award, Princemere Prize, Kudzu Award, First Prize in Poetry at the College of NJ Writer’s Conference, and the 2017 New Jersey Poets Prize.

Presented in partnership with the US1 Poets’ Cooperative and Delaware Valley Poets with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This event was recorded on December 14, 2020.

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