Celebrate National Poetry Month with a reading from Orange County Poet Laureate J.R. Solonche and Anne Sandor.
Professor Emeritus of English at SUNY Orange, J.R. Solonche has published poetry in more than 500 magazines, journals, and anthologies since the early 70s, including The New Criterion, The New York Times, Commonweal, and The Threepenny Review. His poems have been read on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, The American Scholar’s“Read Me a Poem,” and other radio shows, and they have been translated into Portuguese, Italian (including a bilingual edition of his selected poems, La Fine della Storia), German, and Korean. He is the author of more than 40 books of poetry and coauthor with his wife, Joan I. Siegel, of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). He lives in the Hudson Valley.
Anne Sandor is a retired professor emerita of English at SUNY Orange in Middletown, NY, where she taught Contemporary Novel and Creative Writing Fiction. Her poems, “Ossuaries” and “The Perspective From Blue Bridge,” were New Millennium Awards finalists, and “In Medias Res” a finalist in the 2021 Orchard Street Press Contest. She was a featured poet in 823 on High, and her poem, “The Last Supper,” appeared in the anthology, Strange Fruit: Poems on the Death Penalty. Her flash fiction story, “A Spare Kidney,” received a 2023 New Millenium Awards honorable mention, and her poem, “Mirror Writing,” received an honorable mention in the 2024 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, she holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from Vermont College.
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