Buccino's Old View of Nutley in Verse

Buccino to read ‘Nutley’ poem 
at anthology launch

Local writer scores a poem about Nutley’s rich history in the new anthology “The American Voice in Poetry: The Legacy of Whitman, Williams and Ginsberg” being published as part of the Distinguished Poets Series at the Poetry Center in Paterson.

The Nutley author weaves a poem around Frances Goodrich, who grew up in town and went on to write the “Thin Man” film series and later won a Pulitzer Prize for the play “The Diary of Anne Frank.”

Buccino’s poem suggests Goodrich’s screenplay for the popular Christmas film “It’s A Wonderful Life” has hints of old Nutley, and that the scene of the angel and George on the bridge may have been inspired by the Lyndhurst bridge over the Passaic River, not far from where Goodrich grew up.

In recalling Nutley of about 100 years ago, Buccino cites Guthrie’s Dry Good Store and some of our famous residents and visitors, including Mark Twain, Annie Oakley and Richard Stockton lining up for that new invention called ice cream.

Frances Goodrich was inducted into the Nutley Hall of Fame in 2005. Buccino stood in for the writer and her family at the ceremony.

Buccino will read “A Wonderful Town” at the book launch and poetry reading by contributors to the anthology on April 10, at 1 P.M., Hamilton Club Building, 32 Church Street, Paterson, N.J. For more information, visit Distinguished Poets Series http://old.pccc.edu/poetry/events.htm

See also:
http://www.oldnutley.org/wonderful.htm


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The Poetry of Place: North Jersey In Poetry

An Anthology Celebrating the Poetry of William Carlos Williams

Edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Mark Hillringhouse.

Poems that capture places and experiences in North Jersey.

By 45 poets from New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Iowa.

Featuring: SVEA BARRETT, LAURA BOSS, MARK BRUNETTI, ANTHONY BUCCINO, LAURIE BYRO, ROBERT CARNEVALE, JOHN CHORAZY, PHILIP CIOFFARI, DORIS DISAVINO, ANDREW FADER, FRANK FYFFE, MARILYN A. GELMAN, KATHLEEN GERARD, MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN, SHARON LYNN GRIFFITHS, JAMES D. GWYN, WILLIAM J. HIGGINSON, MARK HILLRINGHOUSE, CHARLES H. JOHNSON, JANET KOLSTEIN, GILDA KREUTER, MICHELLE LERNER, JOEL LEWIS, DON LYNCH, MANUEL E. MARTINEZ, SHEILA O'NEILL MASSONI, STEPHEN MCNAMARA, CHLOÉ YELENA MILLER, HOWARD NELSON, FRANK L. NICCOLETTI, ESTELLE PADAWER, LINDA RADICE, CHRISTINE REDMAN-WALDEYER, ELLEN ROWE, GENE SIMAKOWITZ, CAROLE STONE, MAXINE SUSMAN, MARIANNE TAYLOR, CHRISTINE TURCZYN, JOE E. WEIL, SANDER ZULAUF.

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