Perrot Memorial Library will celebrate National Poetry Month on Wednesday, Apil 23, at 7 pm in our Program Room, Radcliffe Building. Poets Kevin Pilkington and Laurel Peterson will read selected poems from their respective collections.

Kevin Pilkington is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of ten poetry collections and two novels. His collection Spare Change was a National Poetry Book Series Award winner. His collection Ready to Eat the Sky was a finalist for an Independent Publishers Book Award. In the Eyes of a Dog won the 2011 New York Book Festival Award. His collection Where You Want To Be: New and Selected Poems, published by Black Lawrence Press, was a 2017 Independent Publishers Book Award medalist. His latest poetry collection, Playing Poker With Tennessee Williams, was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2021. His second novel, Taking On Secrets, was published by Blue Jade Press in 2022. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies throughout the country.

Laurel S. Peterson is a community college English professor whose poetry has been published in many literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks, That's the Way the Music Sounds (Finishing Line) and Talking to the Mirror (Last Automat), and two full-length collections, Do You Expect Your Art to Answer? and Daughter of Sky (Futurecycle). She has also written two mystery novels, Shadow Notes and The Fallen (Woodhall). She is a member of the Norwalk Public Library Board, and served as Norwalk (Connecticut) Poet Laureate from April 2016 to April 2019. You can find her on Substack at laurelspeterson.substack.com.

Registration is required.

For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or judys@perrolibrary.org.