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The North Jersey Literary Series presents  John J. Trause performing poetry plus open mic  9/26 @ 8 PM

JOHN J. TRAUSE materialized in the early 1960s and remembers the New York World’s Fair (“It’s a Small World After All”).  Contrary to legend he did not smash Michelangelo’s Pietà, when it was on display there.  Presently the Director of the Wood-Ridge Memorial Library in Wood-Ridge, N. J. (since 2000), he has been writing and reciting his poetry for over 25 years. Having worked at the Museum of Modern Art Library from 1991 to 2000 and participating in The MoMA Strike of 2000, Mr. Trause has been an active part of the NYC art scene as well as an avid devotee of avant-garde public raucousness (no statue smashing!).  His chapbook of poetry Seriously Serial is published by Poets Wear Prada, Hoboken , N. J.  His translations, poetry, and visual work have appeared or are forthcoming in Sensations Magazine, Cover (New York, N.Y.), The Rift, The Troubadour, Global City Review, Xavier Review, The Alternative News, Parse (Alchemy), Radix, Now Culture, The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Poets Anthology, Off the Coast, TAU-USA, Maintenant, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, Lips, Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, Plainsongs, Sulphur River Review, the on-line journals Sidereality, Pedestal Magazine, and Ditch, and the artists’ periodical Crossings, published by the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. His chapbook Latter-Day Litany (Éditions élastiques, 1996) in its performance version (Latter-Day Litany & Other Pseudo-Hagiographica) has been staged Off-Off Broadway and elsewhere by Daniel P. Quinn since 1998.  Mr. Trause was a participant in the City Lights Books 50th Anniversary celebration and reading (East Coast celebration) at the Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church, NYC, at which he interpreted work from Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems (1964) and shared the stage with Steven Van Zandt, Anne Waldman, and Karen Finley.  In 2005 and again in 2006 Mr. Trause was chosen along with Jerome Rothenberg to participate in the Visible Word exhibition and poetry reading (Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J.), which paired poets and visual artists.  Mr. Trause was a regular collaborator at the Nuyorican Poets Café with SynonymUs, the poetry/performance and music group.  In 2005 he co-founded the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, N. J., where he serves as programmer and host.  Aside from his professional interest in literature and the arts, Mr. Trause also enjoys film, dance, juggling, hiking, Chinese footbinding, and Afrin ®  nasal spray.  For the sake of art Mr. Trause hung naked for one whole month in the summer of 2007 on the Art Wall of the Bowery Poetry Club.  He currently hangs out with his clothes on at Classic Quiche, Teaneck , N. J., the town in which he was born.


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