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Poetry Reading – "Flyways"

with Suzanne Underwood Rhodes & Gerald Sloan

2024-08-11 14:00:00 2024-08-11 15:00:00 America/Chicago Poetry Reading – "Flyways" Fayetteville poets Suzanne Underwood Rhodes and Gerald Sloan read poems from their new and respective chapbooks, nested as a set under the joint title, "Flyways." Fayetteville Public Library - Walker Community Room

Sunday, August 11
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-08-11 14:00:00 2024-08-11 15:00:00 America/Chicago Poetry Reading – "Flyways" Fayetteville poets Suzanne Underwood Rhodes and Gerald Sloan read poems from their new and respective chapbooks, nested as a set under the joint title, "Flyways." Fayetteville Public Library - Walker Community Room

Fayetteville Public Library

Walker Community Room

Fayetteville poets Suzanne Underwood Rhodes and Gerald Sloan read poems from their new and respective chapbooks, nested as a set under the joint title, "Flyways."

Fayetteville poets Suzanne Underwood Rhodes and Gerald Sloan read poems from their new and respective chapbooks, nested as a set under the joint title, Flyways. Each book contains poems about birds, which the writers explore with an eye for observation and insight, and which feature art by the renowned Arkansas artist George Dombek. The books were designed and hand-stitched by Patsy Watkins, retired UA professor and former owner of Picadilly Press.

The Missouri poet Phillip Howerton writes, “Flyways is gorgeous—a multimedia gem. Dombek’s art is striking, crisp and evocative. Both Sloan and Rhodes deliver a broad, complex, and balancing range of poems, from rhapsodic delight to soulful tragedy to apocalyptic awakenings. Frost’s theme of ‘a willingness not to despair’ might get close to the overall theme. A line from Bob Dylan also comes to mind: ‘And I try to harmonize with songs the lonesome sparrows sings.’”

Copies of this beautiful, limited edition book will be available for sale.  

AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Author Talks & Lectures |

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