Join us for readings by David Giannini and Judy Katz who are each publishing a new poetry collection this summer!
Refreshments will be served! Masks optional.
Check out our book sale fundraiser on the library lawn from 10-4pm!
David Giannini’s most recent books include The Dawn of Nothing Important, The Future Only Rattles When You Pick It Up, and In a Moment We May Be Strangely Blended. He was nominated for a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. He received a 2021 Finalist Award from The North American Poetry Review.
Judy Katz’s debut poetry collection, How News Travels, won the 2021 Gerald Cable Book Award and will be published by Silverfish Review Press in Summer 2023. Her poems have appeared on Poetry Daily and in The New York Times Book Review, Salamander, The Women’s Review of Books, Plume, upstreet, and other print and online journals. Katz’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and widely anthologized, appearing in such publications as Best Indie Lit New England, The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review, The Torah: A Women’s Commentary, and Treelines: an anthology of 21st century American poems. Judy was born and raised in Memphis, TN and graduated from Barnard College with honors. She received her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. For many years, Katz worked as a documentary filmmaker and producer of public television. She currently teaches poetry in New York City.
The specific beauties of the poems in Judy Katz’s How News Travels have to do with their accounts of actual human living—among family, among friends, in the real world, with its griefs and losses and growth, its immersions in time, hour by hour, day by day, its immersions in consciousness. The other beauty here, the perpetual beauty, is the illumination—the afterglow, the underglow, the aurora—with which the poet cradles and surrounds her world. A clarifying, eloquent distillation of the truth of our experience, and a wonderful book.
— Vijay Seshadri