Program Type:
Lectures, Presentations, & Author EventsAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award, Joy Harjo, joins us for a chat about her most recent memoir, Catching the Light and to discuss her rewarding lifetime as a writer and poet.
In Catching the Light, Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing. Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of justice for all those America has denied. This is an homage to the power of words to defy erasure—to inscribe the story, again and again, of who we have been, who we are, and who we can be.
Register for this author talk: https://libraryc.org/northhavenlibrary/33540 This program will be held on Zoom.
Additional Information
Library Speaker Consortium
Please note, the Author Talk series is brought to the North Haven Library through a partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium, sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Because this series is facilitated by the Library Speakers Consortium, you must register for this event directly through the library's Author Talk portal (click here to register). Upon successful registration, you will receive the link to join the webinar from the North Haven Memorial Library via info@libraryc.org. Please be sure to check your spam if you do not receive your registration email in a timely manner. If you have any difficulty registering for this event, please contact the library for assistance at 203-239-5803. Sponsored by The Friends of the North Haven Library.