Ridgefield Library Celebrates National Poetry Month

From the Ridgefield Library:

Poetry Reading: It Could be Verse Sunday, April 10 at 2 pm

Join us for an afternoon with Ridgefield's favorite poet Ira Joe Fisher who will read and discuss a selection of poems by some of his favorite poets and one or two of his own.

Ira was awarded two regional Emmys for television writing. He is the author of Remembering Rew, a poetry chapbook, and the full-length collections Some Holy Weight in the Village Air, Songs From an Earlier Century, and The Creek at the End of the Lawns. Ira has a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from New England College. He has taught poetry, communications and broadcast history at New England College and he lectures and teaches at the University of Connecticut and Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Please register.

Author Talk: Sky Gazer with Alan HolderWednesday, April 20 at 7 PM

Join us as poet Alan Holder reads from his recently released volume of poetry Sky Gazer. The poems share the sights that come the poet's way, with so much of what he sees assuming the status of spectacle. The source of many of those arresting sights are the heavens, which Holder never tires of contemplating. His poems raise questions that do not admit of answers. Please register.

Workshop: What a Poet Can Learn from Emily DickinsonSunday, April 24, 1 to 4 PM

Emily Dickinson's brilliant poetry followed some rules but broke many others. It's often in those "breaks," when she fractures poetic and grammatical (even biographical) expectations, that her words and her verses (even her letters) become most powerful.This one-session class withJoanne Dobson will delve into Dickinson's life, her practices as a poet, and the eloquent "brokenness" of the poems themselves. Students will also have an opportunity to write a "Dickinson poem" using techniques they've learned from close reading of several of her works.Please register.