Book Sketches

Elsa Grieder returns to the Library to host a play reading...

Wed, 03/19/2008 - 1:08pm -- JDavanza



Elsa Grieder returns to the Library to host a play reading series on Tuesday mornings at 10:00, May 27-June 17.    Plays include The Good Doctor by Neil Simon, The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance, Coastal Disturbances by Tina Howe and The Perfect Party by A.R. Gurney.  Registration begins at 9:00 AM on Thursday, May 15, 2008, in person or by phone at the Library’s Reference Desk (247-1920 x 2). Group is limited to 10 participants.

On Keeping a Reading Diary       My visionary friend Louise...

Wed, 03/19/2008 - 10:34am -- JDavanza



On Keeping a Reading Diary 

     My visionary friend Louise Blalock often asks people she cares about to give her a baby picture of themselves, and to describe a “lost book” from their childhood.  “Everyone has one”, she’d say, “that wonderful book whose story you remember but whose title and author are lost to time.  You’d give anything to find it again but the way to it is lost.” 

Award winning poet Michele Cooper will be reading from her...

Mon, 03/10/2008 - 11:08am -- JDavanza



Award winning poet Michele Cooper will be reading from her recently published book Posting the Watch at the library on Tuesday, March 18 at 7PM.  Michele is well-known in Rhode Island as editor of The Newport Review and the Crone’s Nest and for her tireless encouragement of poets, both new and experienced.  Welcome Michele back to RI and enjoy her wonderful poems!

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