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We’re hosting a poetry event this week at Easton Area Public Library Main Branch in downtown Easton. It’s our last writer’s workshop for a while as library staff has changed and the library will shift into summer programming soon.

The event will begin around 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, April 10, after a follow-up discussion from our character workshop in February. I’ll be encouraging everyone to challenge their notions of what makes good poetry and how to carve poetry from the everyday. Poet McKenna Graf will offer a reading from her sophomore tome, Mortals, Myths & Maybes and highlighting parts of her journey (which will continue this summer with her next collection, The Depths). She will have books for sale.

Poet and essayist Nancy Scott will offer a brief reading of some of her work, showing how writing can shift between poetry and prose inspired by the same event. She’ll offer some prompts and some forms hoping to inspire. Her chapbooks Hearing the Sunrise and Leveling the Spin will be available for purchase.

At the end of the evening, we are hoping for a visit from Darrell Parry whose quirky, philosophical poetry will close the program with some humor. He is the author of the poetry collection, Twists: Gathered Ephemera.

To join us, you can register here.