Reading with Kevin Pilkington and Laurel Peterson

Event:

Date:

April 23rd, 2025.

Time:

7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Location:

Perrot Memorial Library, Greenwich, CT

Contact:

laurelpeterson@att.net

Website:

https://perrotlibrary.org/

Come join Kevin Pilkington and Laurel Peterson as they read their poetry and answer questions. Kevin Pilkington (left) is on the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of ten collections: Spare Change was the La Jolla Poets Press National Book Award winner; Getting By won the Ledge chapbook award; In the Eyes of a Dog received the New York Book Festival Award; The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree was a Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award finalist. His poetry has appeared in many anthologies and he has been nominated for four Pushcarts. He has taught and lectured at numerous colleges and universities including The New School, Manhattanville College, MIT, University of Michigan, Georgia Tech. His debut novel Summer Shares was published in 2012. His collection Where You Want To Be: New and Selected Poems was a 2017 IPPY Award Winner. A new collection entitled Playing Poker With Tennessee Williams was recently published by Black Lawrence Press. His second novel entitled Taking On Secrets was published by Blue Jade Press in September 2022.

Laurel S. Peterson is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College. Her poetry has been published in many small literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks, That’s the Way the Music Sounds (Finishing Line Press, 2009) and Talking to the Mirror (The Last Automat Press, 2010), and two full-length collection, Do You Expect Your Art to Answer?(2017) and Daughter of Sky (2021). She co-edited a collection of essays on women’s justice titled (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women’s Experience (2009) and has written two mystery novels Shadow Notes and The Fallen (Woodhall Press). She has served on the editorial board of the literary magazine Inkwell, and as the town of Norwalk, Connecticut’s, Poet Laureate from April 2016 – April 2019. Currently, she sits on the Norwalk Public Library Board. You can find her on Substack at https://laurelspeterson.substack.com/archive.

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