Please join us for Bridge, Tunnel, Ferry – a poetry event curated by Buttered Roll linking 3 Staten Island poets with 3 Hudson County poets.

This will be the perfect way to celebrate National Poetry Month – worshipping the melody of language with 7 immensely talented poets!

🗓️ Saturday, April 18th
⏰ 5 PM – 6 PM
📍 Hoboken Historical Museum
🎟️ Free Admission

More about the curator:

🎤 Buttered Roll (BR) is a self-taught poet, performer, visual artist and not-so-complex carbohydrate. Buttered Roll has self-published two books and had three solo visual art shows that have each met with moderate acclaim.

Hudson County Features:

🎤 William J Van Sickell (he/him) is a poet and educator from New Jersey. He is the recipient of the 2022 Walter Glospie Poetry Prize awarded by the Academy of American Poets and New Jersey City University.

🎤 Aurelia Luciano (@goldenlightpoetry) is a Dominican American poet and storyteller whose work explores the layered experiences of life as a millennial, Black, and Latinx woman. Aurelia is the founder and curator of Golden Light Open Mic, a community-oriented poetry open mic event series started in 2022.

🎤 Gold Carson Sánchez is a New Jersey poet and musician. They are the owner/operator of Stelton Distro, a DIY art space and bookstore in Jersey City. They sing in the burgeoning post-hardcore band, Mondo Cane. In 2026, they’ll receive their MFA in poetry from Rutgers-Newark.

Staten Island Features:

🎤 M. A. Dennis (short for Many Attitudes of Dennis) contains multitudes: After an early academic setback—being expelled from third grade—he went on to earn a journalism degree from St. John’s University. As a journalist, he interviewed Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Spike Lee, Dr. Betty Shabazz, and all nine original members of the Wu-Tang Clan. M. A. is a NYSAI Press chapbook series awardee and author of Mistaken Identity Crisis.

🎤 Thomas Fucaloro is the winner of numerous grants from the Staten Island Council of the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, and NYC Commission of Human Rights, to name a few. Thomas Fucaloro has been on six national slam teams. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the New School and is a co-founding editor of Great Weather for Media and NYSAI Press.

🎤 Julie Bentsen is a poet and surrealist illustrator from Staten Island. As a poet she enjoys performing critiques of corporate dehumanization. Her work focuses on dreams, cubicles, and automated phone menus. She has a book titled “Post-its Saved my Soul”.