Please join writers Peter Gould and Margot Wizanksy for an evening of readings, Wednesday, June 3, at 7 PM, in the Library’s Meeting Room.
Peter Gould is a writer, director, teacher, adjunct professor at Brandeis University and World Learning, and founder of “Get Thee to the Funnery” summer Shakespeare programs for teens.
His most recent book is Write Naked. Published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, it is a story of two Vermont teenagers who fall in love as they encourage each other to be honest, artistically expressive, and dedicated to fighting global climate change.
For its strong message of environmental stewardship, Write Naked won the 2009 National Green Earth Book Award for Young Adult fiction. Peter now lectures in the Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Program at Brandeis, teaching a class called Inner Peace/Outer Peace. Students in this course develop mindfulness skills to be used in conflict transformation, truth and reconciliation, and direct ecological action.
Margot Wizansky lives in Brookline, Mass and has close ties to Brattleboro and Guilford. She’s a poet, a painter and a shellfish-gatherer. She’s in the process of retiring from a long career of developing housing for adults with disabilities. Her poems have appeared in many journals, among them Poetry East, Lumina, Tar River Review, Inkwell, Quarterly West, Potomac Review, and American Literary Review, and in anthologies about Alzheimer’s, love, and cancer.
She edited two anthologies: Mercy of Tides: Poems for a Beach House, 2003, and Rough Places Plain: Poems of the Mountains, 2006. In 2008 she was awarded a Writers@Work Poetry Fellowship, and in 2010, the Patricia Dobler Prize from Carlow University for study in Ireland with its MFA program. She transcribed Don’t Look Them In The Eye: Love, Life, and Jim Crow, the oral history of Emerson Stamps, her friend, now 91, a grandson of slaves, son of sharecroppers, told in his words and her poems.
Location Library’s Meeting Room 2nd Floor. For more information contact Brooks Library by phone at 802-254-5290 ext 0, by email at info@brookslibraryvt.org, or on the web at brookslibraryvt.org. Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301. The event is free and open to the public.
