A Garden of Verse: Poetry in the KTM&HC Gardens

July 10, 2023 · 7 p.m.
Walled Garden | Free

Our popular summer poetry reading series is back for another year! Bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy an evening of poetry in a beautiful setting. Hosted by Ridgefield Poet Laureate Emeritus Barb Jennes.

Featuring poets Jennifer Franklin and Sean Singer.

Jennifer Franklin has published three full-length collections – most recently, If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Books 2023). Her poems have been published widely. She is Program Director of the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center and teaches in Manhattanville’s MA program.

Sean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press 2022), which won the 2022 National Jewish Book Award.

Upcoming readings: July 24 and August 7.

This poetry program series is co-sponsored by the Manhattanville College MFA in Writing Program.

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