Buccino joins poetry reading marathon Thursday

New Year Poetry Marathon Reading in Montrclair 

Anthony Buccino and other local poets will read a few poems each during the marathon portion of this free event from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, at the Montclair Public Library, 50 South Fullerton Ave., Montclair, N.J.

Poets include: Susan Amsterdam, Susan Lembo Balik, Ron Bremner, Buccino, Linda Cronin, Gail Fishman Gerwin, Martin Golan, Jim Gwyn, Elizabeth Marchitti, Marilyn Mohr, Frank Niccoletti, Ken Ronkowitz, Bob Rosenbloom, Rachel Parker, Janet Kolstein, Elissa Gordon and D. M. Dutcher.

An open reading will follow.

Buccino has published seven poetry collections.

• American Boy: Pushing Sixty
• CANNED - Booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed
• One Morning In Jersey City
• Retrieving Labrador Days dog tales in prose and verse
• Sixteen Inches On Center
• Sometimes I Swear In Italian
• Voices on the Bus train, subway, sidewalk and in my head
• Yountakah Country - A Poetic View of Nutley, Old and New

He created the New Jersey Poets and Poetry site and posted a short A Buccino Poem A Day series.