Poetry in the Theater
The NJ AMP Alliance, will curate and present the first poetry series at the Two River, featuring local poets and poets from the Greater Metro Area. Each reading will have a headlining and featured poet and will conclude with an open mic. Admission is FREE with a recommended RSVP. ASL interpretation will be available upon request.
Poetry in the Theater is thrilled to announce Miriam Kramer as the featured poet for Thursday, October 8 in the Victoria J. Mastrobuono Library at 6:30 pm. After the reading, there will be an open mic and a book signing by Kramer for her debut poetry collection, Built By Storms.
NJ AMP Alliance is a non-profit organization that provides educational opportunities and programming in the arts, music, and poetry throughout the Garden State.
Miriam Kramer
Miriam Kramer (she/they) is a queer poet residing in New Jersey with her ex-partner/still best friend, daughter, and two cats. Her work explores her quest for connection to the world, other people, and herself. She was the winner of the 2023 Jack McCarthy Book Prize, and her debut full length collection, Built by Storms, was published by Write Bloody Publishing in April 2024. It was then nominated for The Lambda Literary Prize and The New Writers Award, Great Lakes College Association. Miriam loves stick figure drawings, bright sneakers, collecting scrap metal, and hand sewing weird fabric scraps onto boring clothes. She also enjoys going on photo adventures, ever seeking out locations where a tetanus infection seems inevitable. Miriam is overly sentimental and has been known to rescue items from other peoples’ garbage. Miriam has read poems out loud to friends and strangers in many parking lots and established venues all over the country, is more awkward than you could ever imagine, and would be thrilled to come read for you. Find her on social media: @miriadwords
Built By Storms
Miriam Kramer’s eclectic Built by Storms dives headfirst into the lowest of lows, the dark throes of addiction and the walls broken by angry fists.
Sometimes the path to healing isn’t linear. Sometimes the next step means traveling to another reality. In these poems, Kramer demonstrates what it means to be built by the storms of our past, our what-ifs, our lost relationships, and what it means to survive all that was and could have been. This collection doesn’t shy away from the brutality of suicide, the numbness of depression, and the horror of loss.