Poetry at White Space 

Thursday, June 12th 6:30-8:30 PM ( with Open Mic to follow)

Hosts: Jane Ebihara and Elaine Koplow

White Space Art & Event Gallery 47 Route 46E Suite 3 Hackettstown, New Jersey

Featuring:

Susan Rothbard and Barbara William

Susan Rothbard’s first book, Birds of New Jersey, won the 2020 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize and was published by Broadkill River Press, and her manuscript, All the Wrong Things, was a finalist for the 2024 Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and has been featured in Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” and on Verse Daily. She is the recipient of a 2025 Individual Artist Fellowship Finalist award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Barbara H. Williams was drawn to poetry while still an active professional flutist, enjoying a career as an orchestral, chamber and solo flutist, and faculty member at Westminster Conservatory in Princeton, NJ. She began to write poems in 2013 in a workshop with Jean Hollander. With the late poet Daniel A. Harris, she founded AEOLUS, a performance duo, to explore a dialogue of poetry with music for flute. She later participated in Zoom workshops led by Lois Marie Harrod and joined the DVP/US1 Poets collective. Her poems have been published in US1Worksheets, Paterson Literary Review, The Raven’s Perch, and Cool Women Press, with one nomination for the Pushcart Prize. Continuo is her first published collection.