Bethel's Byrd's Books Hosts an Evening of Poetry

From Byrd's Books:

We celebrate National Poetry month on Friday April 15th at 7:00pm with an evening of poetry at Byrd's Books.

David K. Leff, Donna Marie Merritt, Amy Nawrocki, Lisa Schwartz (Newtown's Poet Laureate) and Susan Tuz will read selections from their collections of poetry. Join us for this very special evening. Light refreshments will be served.

A sampling from one of our poets, Amy Nawrocki:

Mrs. Dalloway

There are, of course flowers;
they fill her hands before any vase,
but even in their glass tomb, she sees
the void they have lent their lives to.
Once the guests arrive, she sinks
between the desire for the most
satisfying success and the deep
and heeding certainty that none of it
prevents the day's observable artifacts
from passing through the clear,
choking air of an open window.

...and a sample from another poet, Lisa Schwartz:

Horizon Line

What is it, really?The falling-off point

The fringe of oblivion

The edge of our optic rim

The thread that sews the intersection

Between us and infinity.

Mathematics assures us

We're tethered

But to what?

Matter or dark matter

Or is it anti-matter?

As if any of this matters at all.

We send shuttles to investigate

Defying earth's dominion

We calculate the incalculable

We measure the immeasurable.

Why do we care so much about a vastness

We can neither identify nor comprehend

And so little about the promise within its bounds?

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