Hello everyone!  September has arrived, and the weather is crisp in Northern New Jersey. While fall does not officially begin until September 22^nd, we feel the seasonal shift.  Enjoy the remainder of summer. In the meantime, perhaps you would like to attend a reading (often with open mics!), an exhibit, or read poetry. 

My books,If There Is No Wind and Even the Dog Was Quiet can be purchased from me, and most bookstores online. I am booking events for the next few months. Contact me if you are looking for featured readers. If you are interested in reviewing my books, I can ship you a copy. Post reviews on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop, and Goodreads for writers. It helps.

Upcoming Events

• 10/8/24, Poetic Voices: A Night of Poetry at the Library. Host: Ray Cicetti Mountain Lakes Public Library, 9 Elm Road, Mountain Lakes, NJ. Featured reading (with Mary Brancaccio.) Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 pm. Open mic.
• Moving Words: A Project Between Writers and Filmmakers, an ARTS By The People Project. Screening in NYC in October, date and time TBA. Check my website for updated information.
• WordShed NYC, 10/27/24, Feature. Host: Leah Elimeliah, at P & T Knitwear, 180 Orchard Street, NYC. Featured reading (with Paul Rabinowitz.) Sunday, 5:00-7:00 pm.
• 11/2/2024 Patterson Literary Review #52 reading, Hamilton Club, 32 Church St, Patterson, NJ 07505
• New Jersey Education Association Convention 11/7/24-11/8/24. I will sell and sign books at the convention in Atlantic City. You must be a member of NJEA to attend.
• Poets for Harris, a video with one my poems, “Wishing Stone is  posted on YouTube. This group was started by Bay Area poets, who will be hosting a poetry reading on 9/15/2024 in support of the Harris/Walz campaign. They are also publishing videos from writers who recite a poem and include a statement why they are voting for Kamala Harris. If you’d like to contribute a video (3 minutes or less), contact the organizers at poetsforharris@gmail.com. 

Mentions and Interviews

• An author and book profile for Even the Dog Was Quiet appear on Darrell Laurant’s Snowflakes in a Blizzard.
• Poetry Superhighway, Rick Lupert, founder. Their contest is going on until 9/28/24. Two of my books are being given as prizes. 

Review of Even the Dog Was Quiet

• High Mountain Review (a U.K. publication)

Reviews I’ve Written:

• Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think by Helen De Cruz (Princeton University Press), Phi Kappa Phi’s Forum Magazine, Winter 2024 issue.
• One Day I Am A Field by Amy Small-McKinney (Glass Lyre Press) (Philadelphia Stories),
•  Glassman by Steve Oskie (Open Books) (Philadelphia Stories).
• In the Year of Hurricane Agnes by Michelle Reale (Alien Budha Press). Fixed and Free Quarterly, December 2024 issue. Available on Amazon, once published.
  

Recent and Upcoming Publications

• “I Excommunicated Myself, at Age 12” (Voices in Italian Americana)
• “Children with Backpacks” and “Teaching Fibonacci From the Inside Out and Back Again” (Meat for Tea: The Looseleaf Issue)
• “Bobby and the Bonfire” and “Canadian Immigration Site Crashed, During an American Presidential Election of Epic Proportions” (Fixed and Free Quarterly: September 2024 issue.) Journal available on Amazon, once published.
• All About My Mother poetry series (Silver Birch Press), “Box of Sixty-Four” along with a photograph of my godmother, will be posted soon, on their website.
• “Channeling”  Brownstone Poets 2024 Anthology 

CONGRATULATIONS TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY!

*If you would like me to mention your book publications or exhibits, email margaret@margaretsaraco.com

Book Publications and Readings

• Rachelle M. Parker, Together We Remember the Gazelle (Digging Press). More info. at https://linktr.ee/RachelleParkerWriter.
• Cheryl Vargas, Repeat Slowly, Like Dance
• Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, My Parents’ Marriage (Amistad). More info. at http://www.nanabrewhammond.com
• Jo Salas will be reading from her novel Mrs. Lowe-Porter, on Saturday, November 9, 6-7:30pm at The Lost Bookshop, 120 Main St., Delhi NY. The novel is based on the life of Helen Lowe-Porter, the translator of Thomas Mann and a gifted writer in her own right. More info at josalas.com. 

Exhibits and Videos

• If you are near Port Townsend, Washington, from now until 9/29/24, stop by and see Aliza Sáraco-Polner’s oil pastel, “What lies beyond” at the Jeanette Best Gallery, 701 Water Street. She was awarded a Merit Distinction by the jurors. Wow! 

• Linda Vonderschmidt-LaStella’s Earth Songs: Forty Years in Clay will be on exhibit from 9/19/24-12/8/24 at the Salve Regina Gallery (The Catholic University of America) in Washington, D.C. This is quite an accomplishment! 
• Steve Bloom just released another video, of poetry he selected and compiled:  Poetry of Protest and Struggle: September 1, 2024