Poetry reading April 27 to mark National Poetry Month

The Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild, in partnership with the University of Delaware, will host a special reading featuring acclaimed author Jeanne Murray Walker from 7 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, April 27, at Béseme Restaurant in Lewes in honor of National Poetry Month.

Award-winning author Leslie Leyland Fields writes of Walker’s seventh collection of poetry, “New Tracks, Night Falling,” as follows: “Yes, night falls in these poems. But we’re in the company of a bold woman with a stout flashlight…”

Walker’s poems and essays have appeared in many periodicals, including Poetry, The Georgia Review, Image, The Atlantic Monthly, and Best American Poetry. Among her awards are a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, eight Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. A selection from her “Aunt Joe Poems” was featured on buses and trains with the Poetry in Motion Project, and her plays have been performed across the United States and in London.

“Jeanne Murray Walker’s poems mirror her life in their deep generosity,” says University of Delaware professor Anne Colwell, who will be introducing Walker.

“Jeanne’s poems give us back the beautiful particulars of the world that we so often miss, and through those particulars, they give readers the gifts of observance, passion, and hope.”

The free, public reading is part of an ongoing monthly series hosted by the Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild in an effort to make poetry more accessible and fun to hear by presenting it a relaxed and elegant atmosphere. This reading also marks the first event in a partnership with the University of Delaware in an effort to make its nationally acclaimed speakers and writers more accessible to southern Delaware residents, as well as faculty and students at its Georgetown campus.

For more information, email contactus@rehobothbeachwritersguild.com
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