On Friday, November 15, at 7:45 p.m., in the Social Hall, the Adult Education Committee will host an evening of poetry, featuring Baruch November, Yehoshua November, and Hannah Butcher-Stell.

Refreshments, wine and light desserts will be served.

Contact Jerry.Leshaw@gmail.com or 201-926-0339 for more information.

About the Poets
Baruch November’s newest book, entitled The Broken Heart is the Master Key, will be released in the coming months. It follows his first full-length book, Bar Mitzvah Dreams. His collection Dry Nectars of Plenty co-won BigCityLit’s chapbook contest. His works have been featured in the Paterson Literary Review, Tiferet Journal, Lumina, NewMyths.com, and The Forward. His poem After Esav was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. For more than a decade, Baruch November has taught Multicultural American Literature, Shakespeare, Introduction to Poetry, and Writing at Touro University in Manhattan. He currently resides in Washington Heights, New York.

Yehoshua November is the author of God's Optimism (a finalist for The LA Times Book Prize), Two Worlds Exist (a finalist for The National Jewish Book Award and The Paterson Poetry Prize), and The Concealment of Endless Light (Orison Books, 2024). His work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Sun, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, and on NPR.

Hannah Butcher-Stell is a Writing MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College, holding a bachelor's degree in English from Rollins College. You can find her co-authored fiction in the Sky Island Journal, Newfound Journal, and The Headlight Review. Meanwhile, her poetry has won The Academy of American Poets’ Goettling and Santoianni Prizes and has also appeared or is forthcoming in Sequestrum, Vita Poetica, The Lehrhaus, Chabad International, No, Dear, and more. She currently works as Poetry Editor of Lumina, Sarah Lawrence's literary journal, and as Communications Manager for Daily Giving, a growing nonprofit.