An Afternoon of Poetry

Join us for an afternoon of poetry with local writers, Sunni Brown Wilkinson, Elizabeth Garcia, and Laura Stott.

This event is free and open to the public but registration is required.

Copies of the books will be available to purchase at the event. If you cannot make it, signed copies may be ordered from our website. Please specify in the comments if you would like your copy personalized.

About the Books

Rodeo by Sunni Brown Wilkinson

Winner of the 2024 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, selected by Patricia Smith, this collection of formalist poetry is part ode, part elegy, and serves as a heartfelt journey in overcoming grief and falling back in love with the world.

The Bear's Mouth by Laura Stott

These are lyrical and exact poems of mother love, suffering, and exaltation. Their precision and emotional clarity provide an intimate and ultimately transcendent experience rarely attained through poetry.

Resurrected Body by Elizabeth Garcia

Katie Manning, editor of Whale Road Review, notes, "In Resurrected Body, Elizabeth Garcia offers us one vivid version of what to expect from parenthood based on the experiences of both mother and child.... These poems weave together God, Mary Shelley, autobiography, and more, and the results are intriguing and surprising." Winner of the 2023 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize.

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