The Poetry Salon celebrates its 4th National Poetry Month Anniversary at Manchester Community Library's Café Commons on Friday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m. Writers, listeners, and lovers of poetry are all welcome! Please bring a poem or two of your own work to read, and enjoy listening to the diversity of the spoken word. The Community Poem will be read during the Salon, there will be books by local and guest poets for sale and signing and a reception afterwards.
The tradition of The Poetry Salon offers poets a safe space to read their work, receive questions about its inspiration and creation, and share conversation, laughter, and the celebration of our lives in the universal language of poetry. This year, The Poetry Salon welcomes two Guest Poets: Barbara Ungar and Stuart Bartow.
Barbara Ungar's fifth book, Save Our Ship, won the Richard Snyder Memorial Prize and is forthcoming from Ashland Poetry Press in September 2019. Her fourth, Immortal Medusa,was one of Kirkus Reviews'Best Indie Poetry Books of 2015. Prior books are CharlotteBrontë, You Ruined My Life; Thrift; and The Origin of the Milky Way, which won the Gival Prize, a silver Independent Publishers award, and a Hoffer award. A professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, Barbara lives in Saratoga Springs. www.barbaraungar.net.
Stuart Bartow teaches writing and literature at SUNY Adirondack. His latest books of poetry, Einstein's Lawn(co-winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing Poetry Award) and Green Midnight,are published by Dos Madres Press. He is also the author of Teaching Trout to Talk: the Zen of Small Stream Fly Fishing,a book of lyric essays (winner of the ACW non-fiction award), and his first collection of haiku, Quaking Marsh, was published last year by Red Moon Press. He chairs the Battenkill Conservancy, an environmental group working along the Vermont-New York border.
The program is free and all are welcome. Manchester Community Library is located at 138 Cemetery Avenue in Manchester Center, VT. Information: 802-362-2607 or on our website www.mclvt.org
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