Craig A. Garner's Page

Every year the Jersey City Board of Education celebrates and honors Black History

month with a annual luncheon at the Board office on 346 Claremont Avenue Jersey City

N.J.  This years event with take place on Feb. 23rd and be held in the Conference room

on the sixth floor.  Craig Garner, Poet Laureate of Irvington will be the Guest speaker and

read a few of the poems he has written in his latest book "Trouble?".   This will be Craig's

third year of…

On October 1st, the Irvington Democratic County Committee honored some of their long standing district leaders who have served on the committee for more than ten years.  Craig and & Veleria Garner were two of the honorees since they have been elected District Leaders for over 17 years.  They started out off the line in West 5 and now are serving as District Leaders of West 1.  They along with Anna B. Scott, John Sowell, and Norma Carty were recognized from the West Ward of the township.…

The Hon. Mayor Smith implemented his first "Mayor's Cultural Series" on Monday, August 15, 2011 from 5 - 8 p.m. The event was held at the Servicemen's Clubhouse, 1113 Springfield Avenue, Irvington, N.J.  The purpose of the event was to highlight artist and poets in the Irvington community as well as others. The featured guest artist was a young lady named Indigo Hill who had numerous interesting paintings. However, there were also other poets who contributed to the successful evening…

Word Association Publishers has recently published Craig's seventh book.  However this isn't another books poems like his past endeavors.  This is a semi-autobiography about his life.  Since Craig has been known to some people by the nick name "Trouble" he decided he address being called that and how it has affected his life.

Trouble? is a coming-of-age memoir about a young man who rises up from the mean streets of the city to earn a college degree and become a Systems Analyst in a…