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On the Verge: Poets of the Palisades III is an anthology that consists of 80 contributors in the Tri-State who were featured over a four-year period from both series that are sponsored by the North Jersey Literary Community and hosted by Denise La Neve and Paul Nash.

Norma Ketzis Bernstock‘s poetry has appeared in many print and online journals, including Napalm and Novacaine, Stillwater Review, Exit 13, US 1 Worksheets, Connecticut River Review, and Paterson Literary Review.

Theresa Burns is author of Two Train Town, Pushcart Prize nominee, and founder and curator of Watershed Literary Events in New Jersey. Her poetry, reviews, and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, JAMA, America Magazine, The Cortland Review, SWWIM, and elsewhere.

Deborah Gerris is the author of three books of poems, Light in Light (2017), The Language of Paisley, and the chapbook The Language of Rain. Her poems appear in many anthologies and journals.

Anton Yakovlev‘s latest poetry chapbook Chronos Dines Alone (SurVision Books, 2018) won the James Tate Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Criterion, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere.

Paul Nash works at AMNH, conducting laboratory and field research on ancient organisms preserved in amber and sedimentary rock.  He authors scientific articles, poetry, fiction, and satire.  He has been both an editor and contributor for three Poets of the Palisades anthologies, an editor for Roy Lucianna’s posthumous poetry collection Neptune on High, and founded and co-hosts two reading series (with his wife Denise).

Denise La Neve writes both poetry and fiction. She was a contributor and editor for the 2010 and 2016 Poets of the Palisades anthologies Beyond the Rift and META-LAND. She co-hosts two poetry series under the umbrella of the North Jersey Literary Community (The Poets of the Palisades in Teaneck and The High Mountain Meadow in Wayne).

John J. Trause, Director of Oradell Public Library, is the author of six books of poetry and one of parody, Latter-Day Litany (Éditions élastiques, 1996), the latter staged Off-Broadway. Marymark Press has published his visual poetry and art as broadsides and sheets. He is a founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, N. J., and the former host and curator of its monthly reading series.

Dave Worrell is author of We Who Were Bound and the ekphrastic collection Close to Home features paintings by Catherine Kuzma. Dave’s poems have appeared in Slant, Canary, Shot Glass Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, Schuylkill Valley Journal, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Exit 13, and elsewhere. He has performed his music-backed poems at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia.

Dave Worrell, Host