Join us on Thursday, October 24 at 6:30 p.m. in person in the library lower level or virtually on Facebook and YouTube, for a poetry reading for fall featuring new work by acclaimed regional poets Freya Manfred and Thomas R. Smith. Sign up will take place at the beginning of the event for an open mic at the end. All are welcome to read an original or favorite fall inspiring poem.
Freya Manfred, who grew up in southwestern Minnesota and now lives in Stillwater, has recently published her tenth poetry collection, When I Was Young and Old. Fellow poet Jim Moore writes, “Grief and joy, humor and mystery; all belong together in this full embrace of a book.”
Thomas R. Smith will read new work as well as poems from his recent collection Medicine Year. He lives in River Falls and has written extensively about life near the Kinnickinnic River. Poet Margaret Hasse says, “Smith’s words offer understanding of how to be wholly present to experience — whatever comes.”