Poetry at the Grange

Poetry at the Grange
Thursday, April 10, 1-2:30 p.m.
Poetry at the Grange is planned for every second Thursday, 1-2:30 p.m. at the Grange, 2848 Spear St. in Charlotte. RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Each month a local poet is invited to share about themselves and recite several poems. Participants are then invited to recite their own poetry, read poetry of their choosing or just listen. Prizes are offered to those who can recite their poems from memory. Join for hot tea and homemade cookies. On April 10, guest poet will be Jack Mayer, a Vermont writer and retired pediatrician. His first practice was on the Canadian border where he began writing poems about his practice and hiking Vermont’s Long Trail. A cancer researcher at Columbia University, he returned to Vermont as a primary care pediatrician in Middlebury, retiring in 2021. As a writer, he participated in the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference twice for fiction and once for poetry. He has written two books, “Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project” and “Before the Court of Heaven,” and two poetry collections, “Poems from the Wilderness,” which won the Proverse Prize, and “Entanglements: Physics, Love and Wilderness Dreams,” reflecting his interest in the physics and metaphysics of cosmology and the primacy of relationships. More information.