Five years in the writing, In the Time of Sonic Booms, from Ridgefield Poet Laureate Emerita Barb Jennes, is a collection of poems evoking an upbringing in "a podunk town east of Albany" in the Fifties and Sixties.
Join Barb as Ridgefield Library plays host to the launch of this startling new collection on Thursday, September 17th at 7:00 pm. Books on the Common will have copies of the book for sale and signing. Please register.
The poet laureate emerita of Ridgefield, Jennes directs the Poetry in the Garden festival each summer and hosts “Poems from Connecticut’s Four Corners,” a monthly online reading series hosted by Ridgefield Library. Her poems appear widely in literary journals and anthologies, and she is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Blinded Birds, FLOWN, and Dirty Bird & Myrt. Her debut full-length collection In the Time of Sonic Booms was praised by poet Patrick Donnelly as “…a passionate evocation of a small-town, mid-century American childhood made dangerous by hapless parents, ignorant neighbors, cruel children, canting churches, and the occasional escaped criminal.”