The Grand Lit: In Celebration of National Poetry Month
Come celebrate National Poetry Month on April 16th at The Grand "upstairs" (130 Grand St. Croton-on-Hudson, NY). The event will feature poetry readings by three prominent Westchester poets—Jared Harel, Arden Levine, and Deborah Schupack—followed by a short Q&A (or is it an open mic?) and book signing.
This event is sponsored by the Croton Council on the Arts and is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Details:
- Artist Happy Hour: 5:00 PM
- Event Start: 6:15 PM
- Admission: Free and open to all.
Arden Levine is the author of Spoke (The Word Works’ Hilary Tham Capital Collection, 2026), and Ladies’ Abecedary (Harbor Editions, 2021). Her poems, essays, and reviews appear in AGNI, Barrow Street, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, RHINO and elsewhere, and have been featured by Poetry Society of America, Poetry Foundation, and WNYC's Radiolab. A National Poetry Series Finalist and a member of the National Book Critics Circle, Arden lives in New York City and works in urban housing policy and community development.
Jared Harél’s most recent poetry collection, Let Our Bodies Change the Subject (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2023), was selected as the Winner of the Prairie Schooner Raz/Shumaker Book Prize and named a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Awarded the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review as well as the William Matthews Prize from Asheville Poetry Review, Jared teaches at Manhattanville University, writes, plays drums, and lives with his family in Croton-on-Hudson, NY.
Deborah Schupack is an award-winning poet and novelist. Her latest book, When We Were Gun (Fleur-de-Lis Press 2005), won the Louisville Review National Poetry Contest and was praised by the contest judge as “a stunningly crafted three-part drama.” Her previous books are the novels The Boy on the Bus (Free Press 2003) and Sylvan Street (Penguin 2010), and Relentless (Mount Sinai 2022), narrative nonfiction about New York City’s medical and scientific response to the pandemic.