River Read w/ Gary Whitehead Kate Feeney
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The River Read Reading Series
Words by the Navesink
Saturday, June 13, 2026
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET
The Red Bank Public Library, 2nd Floor
84 W. Front St., Red Bank, NJ 07701
Gary Whitehead
Kate Feeney
Gary J. Whitehead's fifth book of poems, Seeing Double, was recently published by Terrapin Books. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Parnassus, and The New Criterion, and a previous collection, A Glossary of Chickens, was chosen for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and published by Princeton University Press. He has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the Anne Halley Poetry Prize from the Massachusetts Review. He has taught English, creative writing, and journalism at Tenafly High School since 1997, and was the recipient of the Princeton University Distinguished Secondary School Teaching Award (2002) and was named Bergen County Teacher of the Year (2024).
Kate Feeney is a recent graduate with high honors from Brookdale Community College residing in Long Branch, NJ. Multiple poems of hers were published in COLLAGE Vol. 55, the 2026 issue of Brookdale's art magazine. Her work incorporates fantastical elements and uses vivid imagery to shed light on her journey with her gender identity, mental health, and more. She has finished a novel manuscript, and is editing a poetry chapbook manuscript. Kate can be contacted on Instagram @katefeeney451.
OPEN MIC to follow as time permits
Come to listen, come to share – please join us!
Your co-hosts: Linda ~ [email protected] Gregg ~ [email protected]
Words by the Navesink
Saturday, June 13, 2026
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET
The Red Bank Public Library, 2nd Floor
84 W. Front St., Red Bank, NJ 07701
Gary Whitehead
Kate Feeney
Gary J. Whitehead's fifth book of poems, Seeing Double, was recently published by Terrapin Books. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Parnassus, and The New Criterion, and a previous collection, A Glossary of Chickens, was chosen for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and published by Princeton University Press. He has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the Anne Halley Poetry Prize from the Massachusetts Review. He has taught English, creative writing, and journalism at Tenafly High School since 1997, and was the recipient of the Princeton University Distinguished Secondary School Teaching Award (2002) and was named Bergen County Teacher of the Year (2024).
Kate Feeney is a recent graduate with high honors from Brookdale Community College residing in Long Branch, NJ. Multiple poems of hers were published in COLLAGE Vol. 55, the 2026 issue of Brookdale's art magazine. Her work incorporates fantastical elements and uses vivid imagery to shed light on her journey with her gender identity, mental health, and more. She has finished a novel manuscript, and is editing a poetry chapbook manuscript. Kate can be contacted on Instagram @katefeeney451.
OPEN MIC to follow as time permits
Come to listen, come to share – please join us!
Your co-hosts: Linda ~ [email protected] Gregg ~ [email protected]
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Red Bank Library, 84 West Front Street , Red Bank, NJ, United States, New Jersey 07701
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