Watershed Literary Events Poetry Reading March 10
March 10
3:00pm
Watershed Literary Events is back in the Skate House on Sunday, March 10, at 3 pm, and is sponsored by the Department of Recreation and Cultural Affairs and the Meadowland Park Conservancy in South Orange. All Watershed events are free and open to the public.
Roberto Carlos Garcia’s work has been published in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, NACLA, Poets & Writers, The Root, and others. He is a 2023 New Jersey State Council of the Arts Poetry Fellow and the author of four poetry collections: Melancolía (Cervena Barva, 2016), black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric (Willow Books, 2018), [Elegies] (Flower Song, 2020), and What Can I Tell You: Selected Poems (Flower Song, 2022). Garcia is associate professor of English at Union College and is the founder of Get Fresh Books Publishing.
Ysabel Y. González, a Newark native, works as the Poetry Creative Officer at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. In her work, Ysabel explores her neurodivergence, Borinquen roots, and how to engage with tenderness in a complicated world. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of the poetry collection Wild Invocations (Get Fresh Books, 2019). She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two fur babies.
Jared Harél is the author of Let Our Bodies Change the Subject, selected by Kwame Dawes as the Winner of the 2022 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry (Univ. of Nebraska, 2023). He’s been awarded the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review, as well as the William Matthews Poetry Prize from Asheville Poetry Review. Harél’s poems have recently appeared in 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, Lit Hub, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, and The Sun.
