Celebrate National Poetry Month with a reading by three local poets, Kathy Kremins, Joan Larkin, and Marcia LeBeau. Books will be available for purchase and autographing.

About the poets:

Kathy Kremins (she/her) is a retired New Jersey public school teacher, coach, and adjunct professor. A queer, Newark-born and raised daughter of Irish-Catholic immigrants, she has published two chapbooks of poems, Seamus & His Smalls (Two Key Customs, 2023) and Undressing the World (Finishing Line Press, 2022). Her first full-length book of poetry, The Curve of Things, was published by CavanKerry Press in 2024. She is also the author of The Ethics of Reading: The Broken Beauties of Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, and Nawal el Sadaawi (2010) Kathy is a long-time editor for NJ Audubon Magazine and a member of the NJ-based feminist poetry collective, Write On! Poetry Babes. She participates in an ongoing environmental poetry project, Writing the Land (WTL), sponsored by NatureCulture.  

Joan Larkin’s sixth book of poems, Old Stranger, was published by Alice James Books in 2024. Her previous books include My Body: New and Selected Poems, which received the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award; Blue Hanuman; and Lambda Literary Award-winner Cold River. With Jaime Manrique, she translated Sor Juana’s Love Poems, a bilingual edition of Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz's poetry. A lifelong teacher, Joan has served on the faculties of Brooklyn College, Sarah Lawrence, and Smith College, among others. Her honors include fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the NEA, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award.

Marcia LeBeau is a multidisciplinary artist. Her debut poetry collection, A Curious Hunger (Broadstone Books), came out in April 2024. Her poems, essays and reviews appear in O, The Oprah Magazine, New Ohio Review, Rattle, Painted Bride Quarterly, Moon City Review, and elsewhere. She was a third-place co-winner of the 2023 Allen Ginsberg Award and received an honorable mention for the Rattle Poetry Prize. Her work has also received several Pushcart Prize nominations. She has an MFA in poetry from VCFA and is the founder of The Write Space, a co-working and event space for creative writers in The Valley Arts District of Orange, New Jersey.  She lives with her husband and two sons in South Orange, New Jersey.