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September, 2026
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Event:
Book Launch - In the Time of Sonic Booms by B. Jennes
Date:
September 17th, 2026.
Time:
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location:
Ridgefield Library, Ridgefield, CT
Contact:
barbjennes@gmail.com
Website:
https://ridgefieldlibrary.librarymarket.com/index.php/event/barb-jennes-149284
Five years in the writing, In the Time of Sonic Booms from Ridgefield Poet Laureate Emerita Barb Fulton Jennes is a collection of poems evoking an upbringing in "a podunk town east of Albany" in the Fifties and Sixties.
But as poet Sean Thomas Doughtery notes in his blurb, "Don't be fooled. There is no nostalgia here. These are brutal narratives. A boy who shot his brother. A father who 'thought of guns and knives as children’s gifts.' A violence so common it is almost matter of fact. This is a landscape of work and getting by." Poet Charles Raffterty adds, "Every house we encounter is hiding something both dark and commonplace."
PLEASE REGISTER TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT (but walk-ins will be welcome!)
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