Frenchtown Bookshop, 28 Bridge St., Frenchtown, N.J., continues its First Saturday Poetry series with featured poet Shawn R. Jones, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
Jones is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poetry has appeared in the New Ohio Review, Obsidian, Tri-Quarterly, and many other literary journals.
Her reading will include poems from her newly-released collection, “Date of Birth,” winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, a collection of “vignettes of people betrayed by family and American Society.”
Admission is free.
The Sunday Music Club welcomes back bassist Gene Perla with his Meant2B Trio and vocalist “Vik” (Viktorija Gečytė), for an evening of jazz standards, at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 7.
The Easton-based bassist visits the Sunday Music Club to tell the stories and play the music from his long career. For this visit, Perla will bring pianist Jesse Green and drummer J. Taylor Leach – the Meant2B Trio and award-winning Paris-based vocalist Viktorija Gečytė.
Tickets are $25 at Frenchtownbookshop.com
Antiques Appraiser and author Bill D’Anjolell will present “Downsizing: How to Sell Your Unwanted Items in the River Towns Area,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 11.
D’Anjolell, former president of the Bucks County Antiques Dealers Association, will teach listeners how to analyze their possessions, decide what to sell, and know how to sell it; and he will answer questions.
He is the author of “My Antiques Journey,” a strategic guide to buying and selling antiques in Bucks County, the best stores and auction houses, and how the antiques trade works behind the scenes. Admission is free with purchase of “My Antiques Journey.”
Six award-winning area poets will read their work for the benefit of the Frenchtown Presbyterian Food Pantry, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 13. Food donations to the pantry are requested. The event is free, and all are welcome.
These six participating poets are: Warren Cooper (Frenchtown); Vasiliki Katsarou (Annandale); Hayden Saunier (Doylestown); John Smith (Frenchtown); Ravenna Taylor (Lambertville); and Skye Van Saun (Frenchtown).
Celebrate High Bridge, N.J., author Jacqueline Vogtman’s debut collection of short stories, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 18.
“Girl Country,” a collection of stories in which women reclaim their lives and find magic, in settings ranging from medieval times to a dystopian near-future, is set to be released by Dzanc Books on May 16.
Vogtman is an assistant professor of English at Mercer County Community College and is the editor of the Kelsey Review. She will read from and sign her books. Admission is free.
Find out more at frenchtownbookshop.com or call 908-628-9297.
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