# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Smell of Stories: Poetry as History with Kate Hymes
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: It all comes from this dark dirt, memory as casual as a laborer. --Kwame Dawes

Join us in the Steinberg Room on Monday, February 23rd, at 7:00 PM for our latest program in partnership with Elting Memorial Library.

Kate Hymes, poet, lay historian, and 2024 Ulster County Poet Laureate, has been laboring in the dark dirt of history: sifting through census records, church records, old newspapers, and family trees. Inspired by the collection of fragments, factual shards from the past, her poetry imaginatively fleshes out the lives of 18th- and 19th-century people of African descent in Ulster County. She will read and discuss her poems, as well as work by other poets who create art from the stories of African Americans. 

Register if you would like to get an email reminder the day before the program and be made aware of any inclement weather updates. This event is free, registration is optional. Register by going to: https://eltinglibrary.libcal.com/event/16158871
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-paltz/the-smell-of-stories-poetry-as-history-with-kate-hymes/200029804685909
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 24

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: New Paltz
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Elting Memorial Library
- **lat**: 41.74871
- **long**: -74.08496
- **full address**: Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main St, New Paltz, NY 12561, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is The Smell of Stories: Poetry as History with Kate Hymes being held?
  - **A:** The Smell of Stories: Poetry as History with Kate Hymes takes place on Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main St, New Paltz, NY 12561, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing The Smell of Stories: Poetry as History with Kate Hymes?
  - **A:** The Smell of Stories: Poetry as History with Kate Hymes is organized by New Paltz Historical Society.

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