Jersey Shore Poets

Jersey Shore Poets is a poetry writing group that meets once a month at the Eatontown Public Library. It is now in its seventh year. The purpose of the group is to provide a supportive environment for local working poets in the Monmouth County, New Jersey to write, revise and critique their writing as well as to provide information, feedback and support to hone their craft and to seek various opportunities for public reading and publishing. The group also encourages and promotes the writing and appreciation of poetry through various local readings and instructional events. This year, for the first time, JSP has published an anthology, Jersey Shore Poets/First Edition. By the title of this anthology, you might think that this is a collection of writing about the Jersey shore, but it is oh so much more than that! It includes not only of the written work of its twelve members, but the work of over thirty five nationally renowned poets and writers, a group that includes two US Poet Laureates as well as three Pulitzer Prize winners.