BRATTLEBORO-Brooks Memorial Library will host four-minute readings by a group of poets who have poems in storefronts downtown as part of Poems Around Town (PAT), organized by Write Action and supported by the library and the Brattleboro Literary Festival. The reading will take place on Saturday, April 27, at 2 p.m.
Celebrating National Poetry Month, poems are up for the month of April and sometimes beyond. This year, 42 downtown locations are participating, with more than 80 poems chosen from those submitted by poets living throughout Vermont and the tri-state region with an emphasis on the Brattleboro area.
Poems range from the nostalgia of Lynn Martin's "Green" (Distinctive Decor) or Sydney Lea's "Education" (Stevens and Associates) to reflections on the moment in Kevin O'Keefe's "Ten Day Retreat" (The Works). From the state of the world in Verandah Porche's "Cease Fire Sleep" (Everyone's Books) and Toni Ortner's "We Cannot Decipher" (Turn It Up) to the yearning for spring in Kent Young's "Perhaps a Daffodil" (Windham Florist).
Writers who have published a book of their poems will have them for sale.
Refreshments will be available at intermission and after the reading. The reading will be downstairs in the library's main room. For more information, email [email protected].
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