Where You Missed Us Reading Recently

Cool Women Reading at Windrows, 2000 Windrow Dr., Princeton, NJ 08540, June 23, 2009, 3 pm.

Betty Lies reading at the Geraldine R. Dodge Festival, Thursday, September 26, 2008. Waterloo Village. http://www.dodgepoetry.org

Betty Lies 's Book Launch for Blue Laws at the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 08525, September 17, 2008. 7:30 pm, fireplace area. http://www.princetonlibrary.org/events/index.html

Lois Marie Harrod and Juditha Dowd Reading for Quick and Dirty Poets, September 19, 2008. The Daily Grind, 48 High Street, Mount Holly, NJ 08060, 7-9 pm http://www.loismarieharrod.com

Joyce Lott's book launch for her second chapbook, An Unexpected Life, from Finishing Line Press at Mary Jacobs Library, Thursday, October 16 at 7 p.m., 64 Washington St., Rocky Hill, NJ 08553: (609) 924-7073, Library Contact: Branch Director: Mei Mei Morris mmorris@sclsnj.org

Cool Women to read on the theme "Over the River and Through the Woods," at Tulipwood, 1165 Hamilton Street, Somerset, NJ, Saturday, November 8 at 2 p.m. 732-560-1977. www.themeadowsfoundation.org/tulipwood/html

Laura McCullough, Nancy Scott and Lois Marie Harrod reading Thursday, November 20. Middletown Township Public Library, 55 New Monmouth Rd., Middletown, NJ. 7:00 PM

Juditha Dowd and Lois Marie Harrod reading December 12, 2008, 8 pm, at Newtown Public Library Poetry Series, 114 Centre Avenue, Newtown, PA 18940, 215-968-7659. For further info contact Kathleen Mulholland, 215-968-4843.

Juditha Dowd and Lois Marie Harrod reading December 12, 2008, 8 pm, at Newtown Public Library Poetry Series, 114 Centre Avenue, Newtown, PA 18940, 215-968-7659. For further info contact Kathleen Mulholland, 215-968-4843.

Cool Women reading at The Raconteur Bookstore, on January 30, 2008, at 8 pm. 431 Main Street, Metuchen, NJ. www.raconteurbooks.com.

Cool Women reading Thursday, February 26, Middletown Township Public Library, 55 New Monmouth Rd., Middletown, NJ. 7:00 PM.

Cool Women

Who We Are

Eloise Bruce, Juditha Dowd, Carolyn Foote Edelmann (poet emeritus), Lois Marie Harrod, Betty Lies, Joyce Greenberg Lott, Judy Michaels, Penelope Scambly Schott

Cool Women is a critique group of eight women who have been performing their poems together for seven years. At estrogen-drenched poetry readings in venues from New Jersey and Pennsylvania to Oregon and in three volumes of poems and a CD, they have explored the arc of women’s lives with depth and humor.

The Cool Women lead intense and involved lives. Besides teaching and writing more than 200 years, they have worked as caterers, telemarketers, food stylists, artists’ models, and a night bell girl; they have raised families and toiled in advertising, medicine, recruiting and insurance. They have received nine New Jersey State Council on the Arts grants, two Allen Ginsberg awards and one William Carlos Williams Prize. They have been nominated for six Pushcart Prizes and for the National Book Critics award. They have pubished 26 books, not including the three Cool Women volumes. They have been married 13 times and have 16 children and 16 grandchildren. Above all, they are artists of the written and spoken word.

Cool Women