Coming up on Tuesday- An Evening of Poetry at Piermont Library! Register on our website event calendar at here

Join us on Tuesday, July 16th at 6:00 pm for An Evening of Poetry at the Piermont Library.  Alison Stone will read from her new poetry collection, Informed and Rebecca Watkins will read from her poetry collection, Field Guide to Forgiveness.  

Alison Stone is the author of nine full-length collections, Informed (NYQ Books, 2024), To See What Rises (CW Books, 2023), Zombies at the Disco (Jacar Press, 2020), Caught in the Myth (NYQ Books, 2019), Dazzle (Jacar Press, 2017), Masterplan, a book of collaborative poems with Eric Greinke (Presa Press, 2018), Ordinary Magic, (NYQ Books, 2016), Dangerous Enough (Presa Press 2014), and They Sing at Midnight, which won the 2003 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Award; as well as three chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Poet Lore, and many other journals and anthologies. She has been awarded Poetry’s Frederick Bock Prize, New York Quarterly’s Madeline Sadin Award, and The Lyric’s Lyric Poetry Prize. She was Writer in Residence at LitSpace St. Pete. She is also a painter and the creator of The Stone Tarot. A licensed psychotherapist, she has private practices in NYC and Nyack. https://alisonstone.info/  Youtube and TikTok – Alison Stone Poetry
 

Rebecca Watkins holds an MFA in poetry and an MSed from the City University of New York. Her poems have appeared in Sin Fronteras, New Feather’s Anthology, The Roanoke Review, and Anderbo among other literary journals. Her creative nonfiction has been shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s Open Season Awards and named as a semi-finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Field Guide to Forgiveness (Finishing Line Press 2023) and Sometimes, in These Places (Unsolicited Press 2017). Her work can be found at https://www.rebeccawatkinswriter.com/.

Join us for a Children’s Author Event for ages 4 – 6 on Thursday at 4:30 pm- come hear the new picture book, My Tall Friend: The Adventures of Tatu and his Jungle Friends, read by the author, Eliot Prawda. Click here to register!

Welcome to Ocean Explorers! Just in time for summer, children ages 5-10 come Tuesdays and Fridays for a read along with picture books about the ocean and its marvels followed by a fun hands-on activity.  

There are 4 sessions in this series.  Please sign up individually for the sessions you can attend Month Calendar | South Orangetown Libraries (librarycalendar.com)

Join us on Sunday, June 30th, from 3:00 – 5:00 pm for the opening reception for our July Art Show- Julie Cahn: The Creek. All are welcome!  The exhibition will be on display throughout July.

Julie Cahn is a landscape photographer who, in this exhibit, presents the Piermont Marsh/ Sparkill Creek and Watershed in its many configurations as seen from her front yard on Paradise Avenue. 

“By sharing the ever changing and forever fluid views I have captured through the seasons and time of day, I hope I can call attention to the dynamic natural beauty of the Creek, a wetland and watershed of the Hudson River and habitat to an array of bird species and wildlife.

Ebbing and flowing with the tides along with the Hudson River that feeds into the Atlantic Ocean, the Creek is an essential part of this delicately balanced ecosystem that must be protected.”

{In addition to supporting the Piermont Public Library, Julie will be donating proceeds from her largest format photographs only available at the opening reception to support the Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance and the Piermont Waterfront Resiliency Commission in their efforts to protect this precious natural resource.}