Second Sunday - March 12 @ 4pm

Princeton Makes and Ragged Sky Press Second Sunday Poetry Reading – Sunday, March 12, 2023

Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused

on poetry, will host a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on Sunday, March 12 at 4:00 pm. The readings will

take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center.

The February reading will feature Liz Chang and Bernadette McBride. Their readings will be followed by

an open mic available to up to 10 audience members who would like to read their original poetry.

Liz Chang was 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate in Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in

Verse Daily, Exit 7, Breakwater Review and Stoneboat Literary Journal, among others. Her chapbook

Museum of Things is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2023. Chang’s translation of Claude de

Burine’s poetry is anthologized in Paris in Our View from l’Association des Amis de Shakespeare &

Company. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Moravian University.

Bernadette McBride is the author of four full-length poetry collections. She taught creative writing and

literature at Temple University for many years, served as poet-in-residence at DeSales University, and as

poetry editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal. Her writing honors include winning second place for the

International Ray Bradbury Writing Award, recognition in the UK, Canada, and on PRI’s The Writer’s

Almanac, and three Pushcart Prize nominations. She is a Pennsylvania Poet Laureate Emerita for Bucks

County.

Princeton Makes is a cooperative comprised of 34 local artists who work across a range of artistic

genres, including painting, drawing, stained glass, sculpture, textiles, and jewelry. Customers will be able

to support local artists by shopping for a wide variety of art, including large paintings, prints, custom-

made greeting cards, stained glass lamps and window hangings, jewelry in a variety of designs and

patterns, and more.

Ragged Sky is a small, highly selective cooperative press.  We work with our authors closely.  Authors

retain copyright and we use our experience and professional resources to support the author’s work

through the editing, production, and design process.  Ragged Sky Press has historically focused on

mature voices, overlooked poets, and women’ perspectives. 

Additional information is available at www.princetonmakes.com, and everyone is invited to follow

Princeton Makes on Facebook and Instagram.