The Poetry of Television to Come to Kean University on Thursday, April 7

FORT LEE, N.J. - April 4, 2016 - PRLog -- The poetry of The Addams Family, Star Trek, and other television favorites will make a special appearance at Kean University at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 7, when contributors to the anthology Rabbit Ears: TV Poems present their tributes to the small screen.

The program will feature the following poets (the title of each poet's contribution to Rabbit Ears is in parentheses):

·        Joel Allegretti, editor of Rabbit Ears ("The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Unaired Episodes");

·        Charlie Bondhus, author of All the Heat We Could Carry and associate professor, Raritan Valley Community College ("Cop Love")

·        Josh Humphrey, second-prize winner, 2010 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards ("Bioluminescence");

·        Diane Lockward, author of The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement ("The Missing Remote");

·        David Messineo, founder of Sensations Magazine ("Conceiving Television at Age 14 Atop a Plow in Rigby, Idaho");

·        Rick Mullin, author of Stignatz & the User of Vicenza ("Lexanne");

·        Susanna Rich, author of Television Daddy and professor, Kean University ("The Thing: My Crazy Family")

·        John J. Trause, author of Eye Candy for Andy ("Topo Gigio");

·        David Vincenti, author of A Measure of This World - Galileo's Dialog with the Universe ("Pamela Hensley's Hips");

·        George Witte, author of Does She Have a Name? ("Test").

The poets will read their contributions to Rabbit Ears and other work. Copies of the anthology will be available for purchase.

Released in December by NYQ Books, Rabbit Ears: TV Poems is the first anthology of poetry about a medium that has influenced America's language, politics, opinions, tastes, and lifestyles. The poems explore the history and early days of TV, sit-coms, cop shows, children's programming, science fiction and horror shows, soap operas, iconic TV personalities, and commercials, among other subjects.

Rabbit Ears: TV Poems is in the Fales Collection at New York University and in the archives of the University of Rochester, Ohio State University, and SUNY Buffalo.

Follow Rabbit Ears on Twitter @ RabbitEarsPoems. For further information, visit http://books.nyq.org/title/rabbit_ears.

Kean University is located at 1000 Morris Avenue in Union. Visitor parking is off the Green Lane entrance. The reading will take place in CAS 106, Center for Academic Success.