Name: The Red Wheelbarrow 18 Launch!
Start: 2025-10-08T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-08T22:00:00-04:00
Location: The Felician University Little Theater at 230 Montross Avenue in Rutherford, NJ

You're invited to The Red Wheelbarrow #18 launch!! Join us on October 8, 2025 at 7 PM at The Felician University Little Theater at 230 Montross Avenue in Rutherford, NJ, for a fantastic poetry reading, featuring the writers published in RWB #18.
If you have work in this issue, congratulations! We would love you to attend the October 8 launch to read your work from the book.
PLEASE NOTE: We moved the launch to 10/8 because of the Jewish Holidays. Please put it on your calendar if you’re available.
At the launch, we’ll have books for sale for the promotional price of $15, two whole dollars less than our listed price online! Come and get your copy! Our contributors are our only "subscribers," so there are no free contributor copies—but reading at the launch qualifies you to submit to RWB 19!
Our featured poet this year is Shane Wagner. We’re excited to include the two special sections that continue to expand our local poetry circle: one of them is guest-edited by poet John T. Trigonis, and another one is dedicated to Montclair High School poets. Our main poetry section is curated by Arthur Russell and includes many new names, alongside our core group. You can also admire the black and white photos by Donald Zirilli on the section frontispieces. All this exciting work is wrapped up in a beautiful dark cover, featuring a gorgeous peony digital collage by Frank Rubino.
We hope you’ll find this edition inspiring, a slice of the best contemporary writing in New Jersey and New York. We also hope that The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Nr. 18 will motivate each one of you to continue to write, create, and attend our weekly workshops on Zoom and our monthly events at The Felician University Little Theater. Our community and annual journal are proving this year once again that the William Carlos Williams legacy is still going strong in Rutherford, where the epic is indeed the local fully realized. The good doctor would be so proud.
Hope to see you all on October 8 at the launch in Rutherford! This will be a huge celebration.
Best regards,
The Red Wheelbarrow Poets Gang of Six:
Moira OBrien
Frank Rubino
Arthur Russell
Claudia Serea
Anton Yakovlev
Don Zirilli
To get to The Little Theater from New York City, follow the instructions below.
Directions to take the 190 bus from NYC

Go to the Port Authority Bus Terminal on 40 street & 8th Avenue. If you take the subway, the A and C are the closest. Buy a ticket in advance for the 190 express bus to Rutherford, Zone 3, at the window or from the machines (you can't buy from the driver). One adult ticket costs $5.15.
Go to Gate 232 (upstairs); there might be a line as it will be rush hour by the time you get there. Get on the Rutherford Express line (second door). The reading starts at 7 p.m., but we recommend getting on the bus around 6 p.m. to account for traffic in the Lincoln Tunnel.
Tell the driver you need to get off at Montross Avenue, and they will stop there. It's the 3rd bus stop after the Rutherford Train Station. If you get to Carmita Avenue, that's too far.
The Little Theater is just a short walk from the bus stop uphill on Montross Avenue. Cross Union Avenue and walk uphill on Montross about 5 minutes. The building is in the back of a large parking lot across from Felician University.
See you all in person on Wednesday, October 8, at 7 PM!