Poems for New Parents
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 1:00 pm
2011 Writing and Writers Series
This event will be at THE KENT PUBLIC LIBRARY, 17 Sybil’s Crossing, Kent Lakes, NY.
On the occasion of the publication of "Morning Song" Arts/Lake presents a public reading by editor Susan Todd, poet Susie Patlove and others of some of the 240+ anthologized poems.
The collection ranges widely, not poems primarily about babies or parenting but rather lyrics of observation, introspection and exuberant experience. There are poems by Blake, Longfellow, Stevenson, Yeats and Dickinson, stirred in with poems by contemporaries including Sharon Olds, Mark Jarman, Billy Collins, Luci Shaw, and Kay Ryan.
Poet Susie Patlove from the Poetry Center at Smith College will join editor Todd and others to read.
Children with parents are welcome at this event and art activities will be available.
Through arrangement with The Book Cove in Pawling, copies of Morning Song (St. Martin's Press) will be available for purchase at the reading.
The event is open to all, but to better gauge attendance, please reply to rsvp@artsonthelake.org when you know if you will attend.
Reception with the readers following.
Poems for New Parents in the News
About the Event
“When I first saw a manuscript copy of Morning Song, I begged for my own. I know of no other anthology like it. I can imagine any number of friends and relatives giving it to new parents. It’s not a bunch of poems about babies, but great poems about the trajectories of new lives. When I began reading, I remembered being on the 2 a.m. feeding, rocking the baby with his bottle. How wonderful it would have been to have that book at that hour.†— Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author