Featured poets Maxine Susman and Keith O’Shaughnessy will read from their works followed by an open-microphone session when Princeton Public Library hosts Poets at the Library on Monday, Sept. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Room. 

Ms. Susman’s poems are about nature, art, far-flung places, and family. She taught literature and writing at Rutgers and was a professor of English at Caldwell University. After retiring, she taught poetry writing at the Princeton Adult School and the Evergreen Forum, and now teaches poetry and short story courses at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of Rutgers University. She is a longtime member of U.S. 1 Poets’ Cooperative and belongs to the Cool Women poetry performance group. She has published six chapbooks.

Mr. O’Shaughnessy is the author of Incommunicado, winner of the inaugural Grolier Discovery Award. His second book, Last Call for Ganymede, was a semi-finalist in 2014 for The New Criterion Poetry Prize. He teaches literature, creative writing, and composition at Camden County College.

Poets at the Library is co-sponsored by the library, Delaware Valley Poets and U.S. 1 Poets’ Cooperative. It is presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.