Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar

Join The Care Center for a virtual poetry reading and Q&A with author Ada Limón, 24th Poet Laureate of the United States.

Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her most recent book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and a TIME magazine woman of the year. As the Poet Laureate, her signature project is called You Are Here and focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world. Her first books for children include In Praise of Mystery and And, Too, The Fox.

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Join The Care Center for a morning reading with poet & essayist Sabrina Orah Mark, who will read from her most recent book, Happily. A Q&A will follow.

Sabrina Orah Mark's Happily, a collection of essays on fairytales and motherhood, began as a monthly column in The Paris Review, and recently won a National Jewish Book Award. Raised in Brooklyn, Mark is the author of the poetry collections Tsim Tsum, and The Babies (winner of the Saturnalia Book Prize). Her collection of stories, Wild Milk, won the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Short Story and was a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband, Reginald McKnight, and their two sons.

To RSVP or learn more, please email srauch@carecenterholyoke.org