Delaware poets to offer readings Sept. 30 in Lewes

Noted Delaware authors Linda Blaskey, Jim Bourey and Shelley Blue Grabel will offer readings from their new poetry collections beginning at 5 p.m., Friday, Sept. 30, at Lewes Public Library, 111 Adams Ave., Lewes.

Blaskey and Bourey will read from their new collaborative collection, “Season of Harvest” (Pond Road Press, 2022), and Grabel will read from her new chapbook, “Dowry Burnings” (Broadkill River Press, 2022).

Blaskey is the recipient of three fellowship grants from Delaware Division of the Arts, including the 2022 Masters in Literature, Poetry. She is editor at Quartet, an online poetry journal featuring the work of women age 50 and over, and is the coordinator for the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. She is author of “Farm” (Broadkill River Press) and “White Horses” (Mojave River Press), and co-author of “Walking the Sunken Boards” (Pond Road Press).

Bourey is from the northern edge of the Adirondack Mountains in New York and spends part of the year in Delaware. His collection, “The Distance Between Us,” was published in 2020, and his chapbook, “Silence, Interrupted,” was named Best Book of Verse by Delaware Press Association in 2015. His work has appeared in Gargoyle, Mojave River Review, Rye Whiskey Review, and many other journals and anthologies.

Blaskey and Bourey met at a writers’ group at the now-defunct Acorn Books in Dover.

Grabel’s book, “The Fourteenth Witch,” was published by Persephone Press and is a collection of her poetry along with photographs by Deborah Snow. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications including Off Our Backs and The Journal of Radical Therapy. She continues to develop her poetry thanks to workshops and retreats sponsored by Delaware Division of the Arts. She graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in radio/TV.

This event is not sponsored by Lewes Public Library.