It’s Sunday from 2-4 p.m. at Centenary church
In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Lambertville Free Public Library will host its first “Sunday Afternoon with the Poets” poetry readings and discussion on April 6 from 2-4 p.m. at the Centenary United Methodist Church, 108 N. Union St., Lambertville
Four local poets Gerald Stern, Ethel Rackin, Patrick Walsh and Lambertville resident Bambi Kuhl will be featured.
The oft-celebrated Mr. Stern is the author of 16 books of poetry, including most recently “In Beauty Bright” and “Save the Last Dance.”
He is the 2014 winner of the Frost Medal and has a new book of poems, “Divine Nothingness,” coming out in the fall.
He won the National Book Award in 1998 for “This Time: New and Selected Poems.”
A kind-of memoir of a year in 85 sections, titled “Stealing History,” was published by Trinity University Press in the spring of 2012.
He was awarded the 2005 Wallace Stevens Award by the Academy of American Poets and has just finished a six-year term as chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Additionally, Mr. Stern was the 2010 recipient of the Medal of Honor in Poetry by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was inducted into the 2012 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was the 2012 recipient of the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.
Ms. Rackin’s first collection of poems, “The Forever Notes,” was published by Parlor Press in 2013. Her work has also appeared in many journals. She has taught at Penn State/Brandywine, Haverford College and Bucks County Community College, where she is currently an associate professor.
Mr. Walsh’s poems have appeared in many publications. &He served four years as an infantry officer in the 25th Infantry Division. He holds a master of philosophy degree in Anglo-Irish literature from Ireland’s University of Dublin, Trinity College. He lives in Princeton.
Ms. Kuhl is a lifelong New Jersey resident (but for a stint in San Francisco). She has a master’s degree in creative writing from Rutgers University and is a mental health counselor and assistant adjunct professor at Raritan Valley Community College as well as the director of general assistance for the city of Lambertville.

