Join us for our Poetry Book Group meeting! May’s book will be Delight and Shadows by poet laureate, Ted Kooser. Copies available at the second floor welcome desk. You do not have to be a poet or poetry scholar to join! Poems are meant to be accessible to all, and possess the ability to conjure unique emotions within each reader. All you need to bring is an open heart and an open mind!

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Delights & Shadows is proof positive that poetry need not be forbidding, difficult, or intentionally obscure. Ted Kooser draws inspiration from the overlooked details of daily life–a pegboard, creamed corn, and a forgotten salesman’s trophy help reveal the remarkable in what can sometimes appear to be an ordinary world. Here is a poet who works toward clarity and accessibility so that each distinctive poem appears as fresh, bright, and spontaneous as a good watercolor painting. Kooser is a haiku-like imagist with aching wisdom infusing his poems.---from the publisher.

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