Poetry reading at Irish Eyes Milton set Nov. 30

The next-to-last reading in the Broadkill Press/Irish Eyes Literary Series for this year will feature the work of poets Billie Travalini and Pat Goodman. The reading is set for 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 30, at Irish Eyes restaurant in Milton. An open mike will follow.

Travalini, a recipient of a 2014 Governor's Award for the Arts, has received three Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowships. Her most recent publications include her memoir "Blood Sisters," a short story "On Hearing My Son is Socrates and My Husband Frank Sinatra," and a poem "In My Dreams." She co-founded and coordinates the Lewes Creative Writers Conference, now in its 10th year, teaches creative writing at Wilmington University and is busy at work on "Rush Limbaugh and the French Apple Pie and Other Stories" and "Rules to Survive Childhood," a sequel to "Blood Sisters."

Goodman is a widowed mother and grandmother who spent her career raising, training and showing horses with her orthodontist husband on their farm in Chadds Ford, Pa. She now lives in northern Delaware, where she enjoys writing, singing, birding, gardening and spending time with her family. Many of her poems have been published in both print and online journals and anthologies, and she was the 2013 and 2014 winner of Delaware Press Association's Communication in Poetry. Her first full-length book of poetry, "Closer to the Ground," was a finalist in the Dogfish Head Poetry Contest and was published in August 2014 by Main Street Rag Publishing Co. In 2015 she received her first Pushcart nomination. Much of her inspiration comes from the natural world.