Thomasina Levy, a poet and internationally recognized, award-winning musician, who was a Connecticut State Troubadour in 2005-2006, will be featured in an online Ridgefield Library event on Jan. 7 entitled Poems from CT’s Four Corners: Third Anniversary Edition.
Thomasina, who has led workshops and performed throughout the U.S. and Europe, is also a member of the Litchfield Arts Council and the council’s treasurer.
In the Jan. 7 event, from 7 to 8:15 p.m., the library will host five author-activists to celebrate the third anniversary of presenting monthly readings by Connecticut-only poets – including Thomasina, whose poems and songs are widely published and are featured on Newtown’s C.H. Booth Library’s poetry walk.
Guest should register in advance to receive the Zoom link: https://ridgefieldlibrary.librarymarket.com/event/online-poems-cts-four-corners-125172
The other presenters are:
Sarah Blanchard, who published her first poetry chapbook in 2024. Her work has appeared in many publications and also in public-poetry projects, including North Carolina’s Poetry in Plain Sight program and the Blackstone Story Walk.
David Epstein, who does things with lift: sailing, and working with jets at the airport. He writes in the middle of the night. Most recently he has had poems in New Square, and online at Poets & Writers under Drift & Dribble Miscellany.
Mary Keating, the author of Recalibrating Gravity, who is a poet, lawyer, and disability rights advocate. She’s the Poetry Editor for ScribesMICRO, a three-time Pushcart nominee, and a graduate of Yale Law School with a law firm in Darien.
Stephen Watson, who travels the world teaching Tai Chi, the poetic process of wisdom-seeking. His work, which looks like movement, meditation, and massage, involves uncovering the Self. He can be found at Someday Farm, his home studio.
Ridgefield Poet Laureate Emerita Barb Jennes is the curator and moderator of the event series.
More details, as well as the link to register, can be found here: https://ridgefieldlibrary.librarymarket.com/event/online-poems-cts-four-corners-125172
