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CELEBRATING LITERARY NJ at Centenary College

400 Jefferson St., Hackettstown, NJ. Tel 908-852-1400

March 22, Sunday 3-5 p.m. Free admission.
Authors for Women's History Month:
Literary Fiction & Blues Lyricists

Featured Author: Ursule Perrin, Warren County author of six novels is especially known for GHOSTS published by Knopf, New York. Other novels are The Looking Glass Lover, Little Brown and Cool's Ridge, Permanent Press. Ms. Perrin is a graduate of Smith College, a member of PEN American Center and a founder of the Paulinskill-Pequest Watershed Association, a local environmental group. A resident of Blairstown, she has recently published two novels which take place in Warren County. She will read from her work and discuss literary fiction in today's publishing market. She was recently quoted in The New York Times on the subject.

Host Author, Daniela Gioseffi, American Book Award winner for her classic of women's studies, Women on War, International Voices (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone Books) recently, published her tenth book, a collection of stories and a novella, In Bed with the Exotic Enemy. Founding President of the Skylands Writers & Artists Association, promoting literary art throughout Northwest Jersey, she is also the author of a feminist novel, The Great American Belly, (Doubleday/Dell & New English Library.) A member of PEN American Center and The National Book Critics Circle, she will read from her work and discuss with Ms. Perrin literary fiction in today's publishing market.

Paula Dyer, radio host of the popular and long-lived "Wild Women Never Get the Blues,"at WNTI, 91.9 FM, Centenary Radio, writes regularly for Skylands Blues News and has syndicated her own column. She has published articles in Blues Access and New Jersey Music Guide. Ms. Dyer has spoken on the art of the blues at Sussex County Community College, and hosted a festival at the Stanhope House, a nationally reknown blues venue of the region. She will speak on women blues lyricists from the 20's through the 50's.

Rick Peters, accomplished pianist, music director for musical shows at County College of Morris, plays regularly with a jazz trio for which he writes original music. A resident of Rocksbury, trained at Julliard and Manhattan School of Music, he teaches piano and jazz improvisation. He has played at numerous venues throughout New Jersey and New York. Examples of women's blues compositions, to illustrate Ms. Dyer's talk, will be provided by Mr. Peters with Daniela G. who has sung widely throughout the country and Europe.

Coming in April on the 26th, Sunday at 3-5 p.m. Free admission.

NATIVE VOICES FROM TURTLE ISLAND with Chief Standing Bear , Brian Wilkes (Yona Gadoga) of the American Cherokee Confederacy, NY/NJ Region and Kelly Moonwater Frederick (Mni-wi) plus others.This Native poetry festival will include drumming , a display of native crafts, and the erection of a Tipi on the back lawn of Centenary College, weather permitting. In case of rain the festival will be held in the front parlors.

These events are free and opened to the public. Sponsored by Skylands Writers & Artists Association, Warren County Cultural and Heritage Association and made possible by a grant from The New Jersey Council for the Humanities and the Humanities Dept. Centenary College, Front Parlors, 400 Jefferson St. Hackettstown, NJ. Tel. 908-852-1400.

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