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MCCC's
"Kelsey Review" Showcases County
Authors and Artists; Copies Now Available
10/12/07
Enter
the world of "Kelsey Review," peopled with characters
bravely connecting and disconnecting - moving away, coming home, exploring
love, and acknowledging loss. Available free to the public at libraries
throughout the county, "Kelsey Review" features short fiction,
poetry, non-fiction essays and illustrations by 22 contributors who live
and/or work in Mercer County. Now in its 26th year, "Kelsey Review"
is published annually by Mercer County Community College.
According to co-editors Ed Carmien and Holly-Katharine Mathews, members
of the MCCC English faculty, selections this year take familiar themes
in unusual directions, make intriguing use of language, and invite the
reader into realms they may have never visited. The cover is adorned with
a winged and bespectacled Pegasus drawn by Holly Harrison Johnson, a children's
book illustrator who lives in Lawrenceville. In addition to local contributors,
the Review includes several poems by Craig Paulenich, author of "Drift
of the Hunt," who visited the college in April as part of the MCCC
Distinguished Lecture Series.
MCCC President Dr. Patricia Donohue encourages county residents to pick
up a copy. "What you will find are the words and images of those
who communicate to us something about the world we see but don't see,
feel but don't feel, taste - then swallow without a second thought,"
she said. Dating back to the early editions in the 1980s, the college's
commitment to "Kelsey Review" is an effort "to bring art
into the daily lives of our county residents."
Contributors
include: Angela Barbalace, Jean Baur, Vida Chu, Matthew Dulany, Marge
Dwyer, Laura Feibush, Frank Haggerty, Holly Harrison, k. kendall, Michael
Lee, Rice Lyons, Carolina Morales, Beth Morgan, Bruce Petronio, Christine
Pontecorvo, Diana Russo, Nancy Scott, Barbara Stoffels and Carlton Thurman.
Selections in the Review were made by a five-person editorial board composed
of Carmien and Mathews,
along with Luray Gross, a published poet who is "Poet in the Schools"
for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; Ellen Jacko, English teacher at
Allentown High School; and Robbie Clipper Sethi, English professor at
Rider University, novelist, poet and short story writer. The deadline
for submissions for the 2008 edition is May 1, 2008. For more information,
email Kelsey.review@mccc.edu.
Funding for The Kelsey Review has been made possible in part by the Mercer
County Cultural and Heritage Commission through funding from the Mercer
County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the New Jersey State Council for
the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment
of the Arts.
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