Poetry Reading with Betsy Snider

Join us for a celebration of Poetry Month with poet Betsy Snider.

Betsy Snider is a retired attorney who lives on a lake in rural New Hampshire with the ghosts of her many cats and dogs.  When she is not swimming or hiking, she writes poetry and has volunteered as a CASA Guardian ad Litem for abused and neglected children.  She was first published in the ground-breaking anthology, Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence (Naiad Press, 1985).   Her most recent book of poetry, View From the Other Side, was published in 2020 and was a finalist for the 2021 NH Literary Awards for Poetry.  She is also a winner of the 2015 Blue Light Press Award for her first book of poems, Hope is a Muscle.    Her poetry has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies, most recently in Pandemic Puzzle Poems (Blue Light Press, 2021); The Mud Chronicles (Monadnock Writers’ Group, 2018); Carrying the Branch (Glass Lyre Press, 2017);  The Lesbian Body (Sinister Wisdom, Fall 2017); Amore: Love Poems (Imagination Press, 2016); Our Last Walk (University Professors Press, 2016); River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the 21st Century (Blue Light Press, 2015); Poet Showcase (Hobblebush Press, 2015); and Love Over 60: an anthology of women’s poems (Mayapple Press, 2010).

Free and open to the public.

Presented by the Literary Guild of the Center for the Arts Lake Sunapee Region.

Date

Apr 11 2022
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Time

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

Vets Hall
Category

Organizer

Newbury Public Library
Phone
763-5803
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