A reading by CT Poet Laureate Margaret Gibson & David K. Leff

Schedule

Tue Sep 28 2021 at 06:00 pm

Location

Keeler Tavern Museum and History Center | Ridgefield, CT

Join us for the final poetry reading of the summer's "A Garden of Verse" series as CT State Poet Laureate Margaret Gibson reads from "The Glass Globe," her new collection that blends poems of personal bereavement over the loss of her husband to Alzheimer’s with elegies for the earth during the ongoing global crisis wrought by climate change. Margaret will be joined by David K. Leff, Poet Laureate of Canton, CT, in a program of poems calling for environmental defense.
The reading begins at 6:00 in the beautiful walled gardens of Keeler Tavern, 152 Main Street, Ridgefield.
The evening is co-sponsored by Ridgefield Action Committee for the Environment (RACE), a volunteer organization that promotes awareness, education,
and action for the responsible use of energy, conservation of resources, and the reduction of waste.
Please bring a blanket or lawn chair. Masks optional (except indoors); 6' spacing required.

Margaret Gibson, Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut, has published 13 books of poems, most recently "The Glass Globe," August 2021. Her many awards include the Lamont Selection, Melville Kane Award, and Connecticut Book Award. She was a Finalist for the National Book Award in 1993 and for the Poets’ Prize in 2016. With a grant from the Academy of American Poets, Gibson edited an anthology, Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis. Her website is www.margaretgibsonpoetry.com.

David K. Leff is the award-winning author of six nonfiction books, three volumes of poetry, and two novels in verse. He recently coedited New England Nature, an anthology of early environmental writing, and is in the process of editing Echoes from Walden: Verse Inspired by the Life and Work of Henry David Thoreau. The poet laureate of Canton, he is poetry editor of Connecticut Woodlands, the quarterly magazine of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association. View his work at www.davidkleff.com.

Where is it happening?

Keeler Tavern Museum and History Center, 152 Main Street, Ridgefield, United States

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