| | Event: | Margaret Gibson Performs, Vernon | | Date: | September 21st, 2025.
| | Time: | 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM | | Location: | Arts Center East, 709 Hartford Turnpike, Vernon | | Contact: | pegideitzshea@aol.com | | Website: | www.artscentereast.org | |  | |
Margaret Gibson, State of Connecticut Poet Laureate (2019—2022), will perform alongside Actor Tori Richardson, selections from Gibson’s 14th book, Draw Me Without Boundaries, Sunday, Sept. 21, 3pm, at Poetry Rocks. The free event will be held at Arts Center East, 709 Hartford Tpk., Vernon, and will include refreshments, book sales, but no open mic. The event is sponsored by Arts Center East and Rockville Public Library.
BIOS: MARGARET GIBSON,
Margaret, our state Poet Laureate of Connecticut from 2019-through 2022, has published 14 books of poems, all with LSU Press, just recently DRAW ME WITHOUT BOUNDARIES. Prior to this experimental book of poetry and prose, Gibson brought out a trilogy, which includes Broken Cup, Not Hearing the Wood Thrush, and The Glass Globe, which won the Connecticut Book Award in Poetry. Her AWARDS include The Lamont Selection, Melville Kane Award, Connecticut Book Award (twice). She was a Finalist for the National Book Award, 1993, and for the Poets’ Prize, 2016. As Poet Laureate, and with a grant from the Academy of American Poets, she edited an anthology, Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis.
TORI RICHNAVSKY
Tori has been involved in theater both on stage and behind the scenes since the age of 5. She graduated from the Warner Theatre Center for Arts Education in Torrington, CT, and received her BA in Theatre with an acting concentration from Columbia College Chicago. She has performed with many theaters throughout Chicago and Connecticut, most recently spending most of her time with Phoenix Stage Company in Oakville Connecticut. Tori has also served for a time as Chair of the Connecticut Community Theatre Association.
Some words about DRAW ME WITHOUT BOUNDARIES:
“Draw me without boundaries,” Lena says to her granddaughter Zoe, an artist. This book 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. Both a suspenseful read and a fluid meditation, Gibson lays bare the integrity and depth of inquiry it takes to make life and death choices in a broken world
This brilliant book—innovative, suspenseful, deeply moving—reflects back to us in conjoined poetry and prose the profound issues of our time.
In today's reading of Draw Me Without Boundaries, after PART ONE, there will be a brief intermission, followed by PART TWO. The readings will be followed by a book signing.
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