Poetry Reading: Shelby Allen

Poet Shelby Allen will be reading from her work at the Woods Hole Public Library on Wednesday, August 8 at 7:30 in the evening. Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines -- Sanctuary, Wild Earth, New Millennium Writings, English Journal, Earthlight, Phoebe, The MacGuffin, The Brooklyn Review, etc, and her essays have appeared in The New York Times and The Boston Globe.  Awards for her poetry include the Living Poets Society Prize, Boston Herald poetry prize, and the Robert Grimes "Good Earth" award. She is on the steering committee of the National Writers Union and splits her time between Falmouth and Boston.

She quickly adds “Falmouth is winning.”

She is greatly influenced by the natural world around her, especially trees, which she says “since childhood have taught me about serenity and growth, and which gave me natural medicine during a long, dark time.” She goes on to say “I've found poetry to be life-changing, not just for me but for the prisoners I've taught in several Massachusetts prisons.”

Ms. Allen’s most recent volume is titled “Crack Willow, Poems of Transformation.”

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, call the Library at 508-548-8961 or view the website at www.woodsholepubliclibrary.org.