The November poetry readings at Brooks Memorial Library feature two outstanding Vermont and New Hampshire poets: Sydney Lea and Becky Sakellariou. They will read from their new works on Wednesday November 19, at 7:00 PM. in the BML 2nd floor meeting room. Arrive early to insure a good seat. The event is free and open to the public. For more information contact the library at 802-254-5290 ext 101, or info@brookslibraryvt.org.
Sydney Lea is Poet Laureate of Vermont. His tenth collection of poems, I Was Thinking of Beauty, is now available from Four Way Books, his collaborative book with Fleda Brown, Growing Old in Poetry: Two Poets, Two Lives, has now been issued in e-book format by Autumn House Press, and Skyhorse Publishing has just published A North Country Life: Tales of Woodsmen, Waters and Wildlife. Other recent publications include Six Sundays Toward a Seventh: Selected Spiritual Poems (Wipf & Stock) and A Hundred Himalayas (U. of Michigan), a sampling from his critical work over four decades.
Becky Dennison Sakellariou was born and raised in New England and has lived all of her adult life in Greece. In the last five years, she has been “making her way home” to New Hampshire where she now spends half of every year. Writing since she was 7, she has, as a grown-up, published poetry in a wide variety of journals including Common Ground Review, White Pelican Review, Dos Passos Review, Beloit Poetry Journal and Passager. Her chapbook, The Importance of Bone, won first place in the Blue Light Press Contest in 2005 and was published that year. Her first full-length book, Earth Listening, was chosen by Hobblebush Books of Brookline, NH in 2010 as the second in the Granite State Poetry Series. She has won a number of prizes from individual journals and has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her newest book is What Shall I Cry? published by Finishing Line Press.
