With all the holiday excitement you may have forgotten, but Lyn Cooke asked me to remind you of a special evening coming up.  These local, prominent poets will be at the Walpole Town Library and the library trustees hope for a turnout of local citizens that will demonstrate our appreciation of their talents. By the way, she also asked that I stress that refreshments will be served! – Lil

Mark your calendars for an evening of mid-winter poetry at the Walpole Library, on Friday January 10^th at 7 p.m.   The poets include:

• James Fowler, a 25-year Navy veteran, first became fascinated with Japanese poetry forms while stationed overseas.  Fowler, who now teaches poetry at the Village Bookstore in Bellows Falls, will be reading works that reflect various Japanese poetic traditions, including prose poems, free verse and strict iambic forms.

• Martha Carlson-Bradley has published five collections of poetry.  She’ll be reading from her most recent book, Sea Called Fruitfulness (WordTech Editions, 2013), which was inspired by a 1651 map of the Moon.

• Patricia Fargnoli,  the New Hampshire Poet Laureate from 2006-2009,  has published seven collections of poetry.  She’ll be reading selections from her latest book , Winter (Hobblebush Books, 2013) which explores the nature of winter, a time of looking to the beauties of nature, of memory, of spiritual contemplation.

• Kathleen Fagley’s chapbook, How You Came to Me, was published in July 2012 by Finishing Line Press as a finalist in the New Women’s Voices Series.  She has had poetry published in The Stillwater Review, Memoir Journal, Cutthroat, The Comstock Review and others.

The reading is free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be served.  For more information, call the library at 756-9806.