April Ossmann & Lesle Lewis
Wednesday, April 23 @ 7pm, Walpole Town Library
The Walpole Town Library is delighted to host a reading with poets April Ossmann and Lesle Lewis.
Please come prepared to share. WE seeks what unites us, how to change our perceptions to heal families, friendships, and country of incivility and villainization by practicing greater compassion, by seeing past egos to souls. April will read from WE, share stories of being a bridge, and invite audience participation with short (2-minute) personal stories of positive interactions with people you know or met: fellow shoppers, travelers, service providers, neighbors, etc., whose politics may differ from yours, but with whom you shared a moment of mutual humanity. April is the author of We (Red Hen Press, 2025) and Event Boundaries and Anxious Music (Four Way Books), recipient of a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant, and former executive director of Alice James Books. She is an independent editor at: www.AprilOssmann.com; and has taught at the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sierra Nevada College.
Lesle Lewis will read from her forthcoming chapbook, Hydrogen, as well as a few poems from previous books. Her poems do not genreally tell good-feeling stories or stories of any sort; she likes to think that by putting disparate things together and favoring inclusivity, the new sense in her poems might be useful. Why should we deny contradictions and juxtapositions and why should we not give each other everything? She is the author of five poetry collections: Small Boat (2003), Landscapes I & II (2006), lie down too (2011), A Boot’s a Boot (2014), Rainy Days on the Farm (2019) and the chapbook It’s Rothko in Winter or Belgium (2012). Lesle lives in Alstead, New Hampshire. Her website is www.LesleLewisPoetry.com.
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