Life, nature, connection, existence, the cosmos. Poetry doesn’t necessarily answer the great questions, but it often leads us to mine deeper insights into ourselves and our own existence as a part of a greater story.
Woodbridge residents at Fox Hill Run, Forest View, Evergreen East, Evergreen Forest, Woodbridge Village, Green Plaza, Woodbridge Terrace, Gill Lane,Woodbridge Center Plaza and Cloverleaf Gardens are invited to the Barron Arts Center on Wednesday March 8 @ 8pm when published poet Joe Roarty is the featured reader for the centers monthly PoetsWednesday program. The featured reader is followed by open readings. While the program is free, donations are greatly appreciated. For more information, call 908-272-3141.
Joe Roarty was born in 1953 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has lived in Pittsburgh, Pa., Cleveland, Ohio, Boston, Mass., and Chicago, IL. and Philadelphia. Roarty is a poet who moves his work along a steady line of the hand drum he often uses to accentuate, drive, and punctuate his readings.
Here’s a review of Roarty’s work by John Starrs in 2005; “Roarty finds the right rhythms for the time(s) and for the length of the line (often measured in jazz riffs and runs). You might think, “He’s a ‘Beat Poet’!” Joe has been there and gone. He digs further to find form. Lines change lanes. Words like “fury” might seem to become “furry” in a quick mental tic – words play all by themselves. Joe creates unique characters throughout his poems, especially in his short pieces…Every once in a while, his poems run away and things get surreal. In this poets’s work, honesty and technique meet without a fight – his poetry just works.”
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