Wordsmiths - Bucks Alumnae Reading
The Orangery, Newtown Campus
Join us for our Bucks Alumnae reading featuring:
Carly Volpe (Right)
Carly Volpe is a Bucks County native. She has always been drawn to the arts: photography, multimedia arts, and writing. Her love of poetry truly began in a creative writing class with Chris Bursk in 2000. She won Bucks County Poet Laureate in 2018, the same year her book Until the Roof Lifted Off was published. Carly lives in Buckingham, Pennsylvania with her two children and their marmalade cat, Caramel.
J. Eliza Wall (Center)
J. Eliza Wall (Joy Elisabeth Waldinger) is a Philadelphia artist, writer, filmmaker, and art educator. Her work explores various topics—the human condition, family dynamics, relationships, nostalgia, connection to nature, and mental and physical health—in an attempt to restore connections in a fractured world. She believes that art is a powerful tool that can generate change and healing on a local and global level. Her short films have won awards in national and international film festivals and she has been published in a variety of literary magazines. In 2020, she published Like the Sun Holds the Moon: A Children’s Book, which addresses themes of separation and divorce, and for the May 2022 Lunar Eclipse, her book Like the Sun Holds the Moon: A Novel was published by Little Creek Press. Her newest children’s book (TRASH CRAB) will be coming out on Earth Day 2023.
Lauren McClung (Left)
Laren McClung is author of a collection of poems, Between Here and Monkey Mountain (Sheep Meadow Press), and editor of the anthology Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees (W.W. Norton). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harvard Review, Poetry, and other journals and anthologies. She has held fellowships and residencies from Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany. She served as the 40th Poet Laureate of Bucks County and currently teaches writing at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.