Third Saturdays Poetry Series at Albert Wisner Library (formerly Warwick Valley Poets) will feature Howard Horowitz, followed by open reading.

Howard Horowitz is a geographer and poet who teaches in the Environmental Studies program at Ramapo College. His poetry has appeared in a variety of books and journals. His collection Close to the Ground: One Treeplanter’s Geography was published by Hulogos'i (Yew Books). The book deals with his experience planting trees with worker-owned cooperatives in Oregon and Washington.

            During the last 15 years, he has developed a form of cartographic poetry he calls "wordmaps," some of which have been made into posters. One of them, "Manhattan," was on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times in 1997, and has since been included in ten anthologies. He and his wife Ann have lived in Warwick since 1983.