Join us at Howe Library for Poetry Book Club; a relaxed, welcoming space to enjoy poems together and share what they spark in you. Each month we’ll read a selection of poems from a chosen book and then gather to chat about favorite lines, themes, and impressions.
Thursday, December 17th
Collected Poems: 1974-2004
by Rita Dove
Rita Dove is an acclaimed American poet whose work explores history, family, memory, love, and the complexities of the African American experience. She served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995 and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987. Her Collected Poems: 1974–2004, which was nominated for the National Book Award, brings together three decades of poetry marked by vivid storytelling, musical language, and a keen attention to the lives of ordinary people. Dove’s work moves between the personal and the historical, finding moments of beauty, struggle, and discovery in both.
Click here to see the list of poems we’ll be discussing.
This book discussion program is HYBRID. We will meet in the library but you may also attend via Zoom. Click here for an Zoom meeting invitation. You can email Mike at mike.morris@thehowe.org for a copy of the book, or more information.
Where: Howe Library & Zoom
Room: Aldrich Room
When: 6:00pm-7:00pm
