| | Event: | Gibson Reads from New Book, Hartford | | Date: | October 9th, 2024.
| | Time: | 7:00 PM | | Location: | Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor Street, Hartford | | Contact: | Margaret Gibson, brokencupgibson@gmail.com | Sponsored by Riverwood Poetry Series, this event features a dramatic reading of CT State Poet Laureate Emerita Margaret Gibson's new book, Draw Me Without Boundaries. Gibson reads reading the part of Lena, and Tori Richnavsky reading Zoe.
“Draw me without boundaries,” Lena says to her granddaughter Zoe, an artist. This book, a suspenseful read and a fluid meditation, is their love story, told in their voices: inner monologues whose prose and poetry are set against the shifting background of global climate crisis and the COVID pandemic. DRAW ME WITHOUT BOUNDARIES is a compelling investigation of the deep connections possible between people despite their physical isolation. Zoe has left New York City to paint in solitude at her grandmother’s abandoned house in the woods near the seacoast of Connecticut. Having fled her failed marriage, unexpectedly pregnant, she faces the choice to continue or end her pregnancy, seeking clarity by walking the labyrinth of the woods. Lena, once a poet and a keeper of journals, has been moved to a memory care facility where she faces choiceless isolation, continuing memory loss, and death, living only for her granddaughter’s visits and the vivid, if occasional, revelations of her fractured memories. Margaret Gibson, long respected for her skillful poetry and for a depth of attention that is both fearless and tender, has given us a brilliant book that reflects back to us the profound issues of our time. (description provided by LSU Press.)
Future readings in 2024:
November 9: in West Hartford, Word House Poetry Series, at Noah Webster House, from
2-4p.m. Margaret Gibson reading Lena, Heather Oakley reading Zoe.
November 14: in Storrs, CT at Barnes and Noble Bookstore, sponsored by University of CT English Department, at 5:30 p.m. Margaret Gibson reading Lena, Heather Oakley reading Zoe.
November 22: in Stonington CT at the La Grua Center, at 6:30 p.m, sponsored by ARTS CAFÉ, MYSTIC. Margaret Gibson reading Lena, Tori Richnavsky reading Zoe.
About Riverwood Poetry Series
The Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization committed to the promotion and appreciation of poetry in Connecticut. RPS, Inc. is invested in providing entertaining and thought-provoking programming, while responding to the needs our our neighbors through community outreach and collaboration. From their Facebook page: “The Riverwood Poetry Series has innovated many programs since our inception, all of them free to the public. We provide entertaining and thought-provoking poetry in a relaxed atmosphere.” Learn more at their website.
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