Join the New Canaan Land Trust on Saturday, May 15th for an outdoor, environmentally-inspired poetry reading that will feature Connecticut’s Poet Laureate Margaret Gibson and seven other acclaimed Connecticut poets. Seven poets will read their poems from the recently published anthology Waking Up to the Earth. Edited by State Poet Laureate Gibson, Waking Up to the Earth is a collection of poems by Connecticut poets who write of their relationships with the earth at a time of global climate crisis.
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A Green Poetry Café: Margaret Gibson, David K. Leff, Pegi Deitz Shea
Poetry Rocks is holding a special reading at Vernon’s Henry Park Pavilion on Sunday April 18, featuring CT State Poet Laureate
David K. Leff, and Vernon Poet Laureate
Pegi Deitz Shea. The free event is billed as a “Green Poetry Café,” where poets will perform their works about nature. The reading commemorates both National Poetry Month and Earth Day (April 22). An open microphone session will follow the featured readers.