Prize-winning regional poets will read their work on Sunday October 19, at 2:00 pm, at the Mattapoisett Library. This event is free and open to the public.
Featured poet Margot Wizansky will read from her most recent collection, Random Music in a Small Galaxy, whose poems explore the transcendent beauty of life even as they confront human mortality. Rich with images and emotion, Wizansky’s tender poems bring attention “to war, migration, environmental crises, and religion with intimate details,” in the words of poet Alexis Ivy.
Wizansky will be joined by two other members of the Mattapoisett Poets, Vivian Eyre and Eileen Paccia. Eyre’s most recent collection, Ishamel’s Violets, explores the endangerment of whales with its human, scientific and literary connections. A devoted steward of marine life, Eyre draws from her work monitoring whales and sea turtles in her writing and organizes the Poets in Conversation series at the Imago Gallery in Warren, RI.
Eileen Paccia, a New Bedford poet, works with the Martha’s Vineyard Poetry Collective. Her narrative and lyrical poems explore the connections between humanity/nature in urban/ocean settings.
The poets will be introduced by Elizabeth Sylvia. Light refreshments will be served, and questions will be taken after the reading.