Poetry Book Group: Tim Seibles' "With No Hat"

Name: Poetry Book Group: Tim Seibles' "With No Hat"
Start: 2026-07-22T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-07-22T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Yellow Bird Books Aurora

Schedule

Wed Jul 22 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Yellow Bird Books Aurora | Aurora, IL

Celebrating his 70th year, Tim Seibles presents With No Hat, a new collection with a long history. Energized and original, With No Hat also offers a retrospective of Seibles’ life and career—including his signature sassy villanelles; pop up cameos of cartoon characters; meditations on aging, death, identity, and at-one-ment with all beings; and leading the parade—the main character: the poem itself—lithe and mischievous—not only bareheaded, but in the full glory of his birthday suit. Yeats says, “I made my song a coat…but there’s more enterprise in walking naked.” With No Hat enterprises—strides, sprints, gavottes, and tiptoes through a life work of forging imagination into unforgettable tableaus, spanning self and other, and embracing and assessing, with Seibles’ empathic but cold eye, our culture and our lives in mortal crisis.

We'll meet at 7:00 to discuss the book, then at 7:30 Tim Seibles will join us via Zoom to answer questions and read some poems.
Books can be purchased at Yellow Bird Books, or through https://bookshop.org/p/books/with-no-hat-tim-seibles/03b75a777d88da67?ean=9798990767843&next=t