Second Sunday Poetry - 7/10
Princeton Makes and Ragged Sky Press Second Sunday Poetry Reading – Sunday, July 10
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, July 10 at 4:00 pm. The readings will
take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center.
The July 10 reading will feature Steve Nolan and Lew Maltby. Their readings will be followed by an open
mic available to up to 10 audience members who would like to read their original poetry.
Steve Nolan spent 30 years in the military and 25 years as a mental health professional. He has
published in numerous journals and his poetry was featured on National Public Radio, Morning Edition,
upon his return from Afghanistan in 2007. He is the author of Go Deep (with NJ DeVico), Base Camp:
Poems, and American Carnage: An Officer’s Duty to Warn. His work reflects his commitment to social
justice.
Lew Maltby is an unusual poet. He has been a truck driver, factory worker, trial lawyer, model, logger,
and soldier. All these experiences find voice in his poetry. His images include “gazing at a meteor shower
of tracers through barbed wire” while crawling through a minefield to “bodies colliding like snowflakes
under the Northern Lights” with a lover in Iceland. His first chapbook, Smiling Axes, was published by
Kelsay Press in 2019.
Princeton Makes is a cooperative comprised of 32 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’s perspectives.
Additional information is available at www.princetonmakes.com, and everyone is invited to follow
Princeton Makes on Facebook and Instagram.