It's becoming an annual tradition! The fifth issue of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow is chock full of great poetry and essays, from poets who live in Rutherford, NJ or who travel there to enjoy the borough's vibrant poetry scene. Rutherford's accomplished Claudia Serea is the feature poet for this issue. Other great poets herein include Jim Klein, John Barrale, Mark Fogarty and Zorida Mohammed of the original Red Wheelbarrow Poets as well as many others who have taken place in the group's workshops or by coming to readings at the Williams Center or GainVille Cafe in Rutherford. Enjoy this magnificent display of poetry that proves the epic is the local fully realized!

For the seventh time the Red Wheelbarrow Poets have packaged lightning in a bottle. Following the example of William Carlos Williams, the celebrated poet-doctor of Rutherford, NJ, these awesome poets and writers are turning the epic into the local fully realized. They are a closely knit community that has participated in the RWP writing workshop, now in its seventh year, or RWP readings at the Williams Center and GainVille Cafe, both in Rutherford. And they kick some ass too!

A remarkable collection of 42 poets connected with the Rutherford, NJ poetry revival gives voice to memorable poetry and essays in the third edition of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow. Published by the Red Wheelbarrow Poets, this third annual edition of the literary journal celebrates the epic in the local and poetic voices in the American grain that so inspired William Carlos Williams, Rutherford's hometown doctor and poet, whose liberation of the voice of the common man (and woman) in poetry was a true revolution in words during the last century.--The Red Wheelbarrow Poets.

Life Opens Up Like a Flower By: Dede Meltzer A soulful and inspiring collection of poems, Life Opens Up Like a Flower is the debut collection of poetry by Dede Meltzer. It contains a variety of narrative, lyrical and ecstatic poems. These carefully selected poems depict the speaker's relationship to her independence, love, language, nature, romance and the art form of poetry. This unique book portrays the joy, grace, challenges, and perceptions of a lady whose voice emerges as that of a spirited, sympathetic, and determined woman. It is a collection that will appeal to a broad audience.

There's a marvelous revival of poetry underway in Rutherford, NJ, home of the influential American poet William Carlos Williams. A Symposium on WIlliams has led to a poetry cooperative, several websites, two ongoing workshops, and a monthly reading. The RUTHERFORD RED WHEELBARROW POETS ANTHOLOGY is the living proof of the great vortex of poetic energy that has been created. The book features an unpublished poem by WIlliams and also poets like JOHN BARRALE, CELINE BEAULIEU, SONDRA SINGER BEAULIEU, GEORGE DE GREGORIO, MARK FOGARTY, JIM KLEIN, LOREN KLEINMAN, ZORIDA MOHAMMAD, DEBORAH SCHANTZ, CLAUDIA SEREA and many more!

The Red Wheelbarrow Poets have staked a claim to one of the most valuable pieces of poetic ground in the country, Rutherford, NJ and the legacy of Rutherford's poet/physician William Carlos Williams. Each year for the past eight the group has produced an annual collection of the best poetry (and prose) from this lively and vibrant community. This year's Featured poet is Don Zirilli, who has also contributed four essays on Williams he has delivered at RWP readings in the past year.

The Red Wheelbarrow 9 continues the tradition of poetic excellence associated with Rutherford, NJ, hometown of major American poet William Carlos Williams. The Red Wheelbarrow Poets continue to attract the best of local poets and others drawn to the flame of modern 21st Century versifying. The RWP runs an ongoing weekly poetry workshop (it has been ongoing for ten years now) and monthly readings at both the Williams Center and GainVille Cafe in Rutherford. Participants in those three events are eligible for inclusion in the anthology, and this year we have nearly 50 poets and writers in a book that is bursting at the seams with poetry, prose and art. May the tribe increase!

In 1909, William Carlos Williams published his first book of poetry in Rutherford, NJ and started the modernist revolution. In 2009, that tradition is continued by the release of the second Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, a literary journal featuring the best of New Jersey and New York poets. There's an unpublished poem by Williams, several essays on the poet, and rare items from the Rutherford Public Library's Williams Collection.

It's hard to believe, but it has been ten years for The Red Wheelbarrow, the Rutherford, NJ anthology that has done so much to boost the poetry of the tri-state region and create a nexus of poetic energy around the birthplace of famed poet Dr. William Carlos Williams. This is our biggest and best book to date, bursting with poetry, prose and artwork and epitomizing Williams' beliefs that a poem is a machine made of words and the epic is the local fully realized.Since Williams was a baby doctor we often get asked if we were delivered by Dr. Williams. Our answer? Not yet, but we're getting there!