Find poetry readings, workshops, festivals, conferences, literary organizations, and poetry-friendly bookstores, and learn more about poets laureate, in your area.
There is no state poet laureate appointed in New Jersey at this time.
City and County Poets Laureate
Jersey City
In 2020, Susan Justiniano was appointed poet laureate of Jersey City.
Cape May
In 2022, Sylvia Baer was named the inaugural poet laureate of Cape May.
| Type | Title | State |
|---|---|---|
| Conference | Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway | New Jersey |
| Poetry-Friendly Bookstore | Montclair Book Center | New Jersey |
| Reading Series | Princeton Reading Series | New Jersey |
| Poetry-Friendly Bookstore | River Road Books | New Jersey |
| Small Press | CavanKerry Press | New Jersey |
| Poetry-Friendly Bookstore | Sparta Books | New Jersey |
| Literary Magazine | The Nassau Literary Review | New Jersey |
| Poetry-Friendly Bookstore | The Town Book Store | New Jersey |
| Literary Magazine | Ontario Review | New Jersey |
| Poetry-Friendly Bookstore | [words] Bookstore | New Jersey |
Tracy K. Smith is the author of Such Color: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2021), Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press, 2018), winner of the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, Life on Mars (Graywolf Press, 2011), winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Duende (Graywolf Press, 2007), which received the 2006 James Laughlin Award. Smith served as the poet laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019.
Born on February 12, 1965, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Deborah Garrison earned her BA in creative writing at Brown University and her MA in literature
Jessie Redmon Fauset, born in 1882, played a crucial role in the Harlem Renaissance during her time as literary editor of The Crisis.