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  • September 2025

  • Sat 27

    Midnight Notes at the Writers House

    September 27, 2025
  • October 2025

  • Sat 4

    Collingswood Book Festival

    October 4, 2025 @ 10:00 am
    Collingswood Book Festival 729 Haddon Ave., Collingswood, NJ, United States

    Location: Poetry Tent Pop Up | 729 Haddon Ave

  • Sat 11

    Midnight Notes at the Writers House

    October 11, 2025
  • November 2025

  • Sat 15

    Fall Open Mic ft. Chuck Brickley + Crystal Smith

    November 15, 2025 @ 11:00 am

    Click For More Information Join the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association for an online Open Mic featuring two outstanding poets: Chuck Brickley — acclaimed for his haiku collection Earthshine, Chuck brings a contemplative voice grounded in nature, family, and quiet revelation. Crystal Simone Smith — author of Runagate, Crystal explores themes of identity, justice, and the […]

  • Tue 18

    Midnight Notes @ Rutgers Camden

    November 18, 2025 @ 7:00 pm

    Click For More Information It’s our last collab of the year as part of the Chancellor’s Year of the Arts, so we’re bringing you not one but TWO featured poets! On Tuesday, November 18, from 7-9 in the Rutgers-Camden Writers House, Pauline Monter and Patrick Rosal will take the mic to inspire us as we write […]

  • December 2025

  • Sat 6

    Midnight Notes at the Writers House

    December 6, 2025
    Nick Virgillio Writers House 1801 Broadway, Camden, NJ, United States

    Camden's late night poetry workshop continues ✍🏾 Midnight Notes returns from 7pm-9pm Workshop kicks off at 7 Performances start at 8:15

  • Thu 11

    2025 Haiku Head-to-Head Invitational

    December 11, 2025 @ 8:00 pm

    Click For More Information Experience the art of haiku like never before in this live, tournament-style poetry competition! Watch poets go head-to-head in three rounds—each verse sharper, braver, and more inspired than the last. December 11  8 PM - 10:30 PM Tickets: $5  This special fundraiser supports free haiku education for youth in Camden, NJ helping children […]

  • January 2026

  • Tue 20

    Submissions Open for HSA Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku/Senryu Competition

    January 20
  • May 2026

  • Sun 3

    Haiku Dojo: World Head to Head League

    May 3 @ 3:00 pm

    Welcome HVHA's Worldwide Head-to-Head Haiku Competition. Hosted by Tazou "Basho" Yamaguchi All proceeds to towards HAIKU DOJO ACADEMY: NVHA's In School Creative Writing Program

    $7.00
  • June 2026

  • Fri 26

    Ginkgo Walk – Island Beach State Park

    June 26 @ 4:00 pm
    The Judges Shack 771 Bettlewood Avenue, Collingswood, NJ, United States

    Join us as we explore Island Beach State Park for a peaceful, contemplative haiku walk with local poets.

  • Sun 28

    Graveside Celebration

    June 28 @ 2:00 pm
    Harleigh Cemetery

    June 28 at Harleigh Cemetery at Nick's podium, by the goose pond, near Walt Whitman's tomb Join us once again on our namesake's birthday for a celebration of life, poetry and community. Food will be provided.

  • August 2026

  • Sat 22

    Midnight Notes | Featuring Phantom Troupe

    August 22 @ 8:30 pm
    Nick Virgillio Writers House 1801 Broadway, Camden, NJ, United States

    Join us for NVHA's signature reading series and salon that puts Camden artists and writers in the center. Hosted by Reet Starwind

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Albert J. Dansbury, Sr

Alfred taught English to junior and senior high school students in New Jersey and Massachusetts prior to working for the municipal government of the City of Camden, New Jersey. He began working with the City of Camden Department of Planning & Development, Division of Housing Services, as a Cost Estimator for Property Improvement in 1984.

He spent the next thirty-eight years working in both the Division of Housing Services, and the Finance Department Bureau of Grants Management, helping the City administer state and federally funded affordable housing projects in Camden.

Alfred spent ten years working with the Bureau of Grants Management, where he reviewed and evaluated grant applications and proposals for funding from non-profit and for- profit housing developers. These agencies included St. Joseph’s Carpenter Society, Heart of Camden, Camden County OEO, Habitat for Humanity,

Camden Lutheran Housing, RPM Development and others. He also worked with social service agencies such as Dooley House, Respond Inc., Sikora House, Center for Family Services, and Volunteers of America, that applied for grant funding.

He also played a significant role in the planning and implementation of the Annual Consolidated Plan grant application submitted to the Department of Housing and Urban Development each year. The Bureau holds an annual grant funding seminar along with public meetings and technical assistance sessions concerning the C-Plan.

Working for the City of Camden Division of Housing Services Alfred also served as the coordinator of the federal funded HOPWA housing Program for 14 years.

HOPWA funds provided safe, affordable, secure, housing for persons with HIV/AIDS, by issuing housing vouchers to their participants. He managed the delivery of services to 80-90 clients a year, covering Camden, Burlington and Gloucester counties.

 

During his time working for the City of Camden Mr. Dansbury was a member of the CPAC Homeless Network Planning Committee, the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant Advisory Committee and United Neighbors of Whitman Park.

Outside of his work with the City of Camden, Alfred worked as an Adjunct Instructor of Reading Skills and Writing Skills at Camden County College, teaching at both the Camden and Blackwood campuses. In 2022 Alfred published,

“The Strength of Courage” a novel he embarked on as a graduate student in Rowan University’s M.A. in Writing program in 2014-2018.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Journalism from Rutgers University, a Master’s of Arts degree in Business Administration from Eastern University, a Master’s of Arts in Education from Eastern Michigan University and a Master’s of Arts in Writing from Rowan University.