On April 13th, GPG Welcomes Patricia Horn O’Brien and Ed Walker to our Second Thursday Poetry Series in person and on Zoom at 6:30pm

Join us for Guilford Poets Guild’s Second Thursday Poetry Series on April 13th at 6:30pm!

We’ll be in person at Guilford Library for this event AND we’ll offer a Zoom link for those who’d like to be with us remotely.

Please register at http://guilfordfreelibrary.org/ to join us in person or click on this link at the time of the event, and you’ll accompany us virtually: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7746376275. Meeting ID: 774 637 6275

The evening will begin with an Open Mic & we’ll hear poetry from Patricia Horn O’Brien and Ed Walker from 7-8pm.

Patricia Horn O’Brien helped in the establishment of Prison Hospice in three Connecticut prisons and facilitated poetry workshops with fellow poets at York Correctional Institution. She initiated the ongoing program, Paintings and Poetry, at Florence Griswold Museum. She is the author of a poetry collection, When Less Than Perfect is Enough, and is the co-author, with her son Richard Manders, of a memoir about their adoption story, The Laughing Rabbit: A Mother, a Son and the Ties that Bind. Her newest book, The Scatter and the Gap, is available in bookstores, through Ingram Books, from amazon.com or through the publisher. For more information, contact Patricia O’Brien at patriciaobrien1937@gmail.com and visit Grayson Books at http://www.graysonbooks.com.

Edward Walker is the author of 2 poetry collections. He is a resident of Guilford and has enjoyed his association with poets of the Guilford Poets Guild since the 1970s. His most recent book of Poems, Turtle Crossing, can be purchased here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/turtle-crossing-edward-walker/1143114458.