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Poetry Reading with award-winning poets Christopher Jane Corkery and Cammy Thomas
Virtual Poetry at the Library Series, Fall ‘21
Balancing On the Edge Between Light and Dark:
Poetry of Christopher Jane Corkery and Cammy Thomas
Join us for an afternoon of powerful and moving poetry with Christopher Jane Corkery and Cammy Thomas who will read from and discuss their latest work.
Corkery’s first book, Blessing, appeared in 1985 from Princeton in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poetry. She published widely in journals throughout the 90s and 2000s while raising a family in Concord with her husband—teacher, editor, and literary agent Tom Hart (1944-2012). The winner of a Pushcart Prize, she has received fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and the MA Artists Foundation. She has been a grateful fellow at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.
She spent most of her teaching life in the English Department at Holy Cross in Worcester, where she taught critical reading and writing, as well as courses in creative writing.
Cammy Thomas reads from her latest collection, Tremors (Four Way Books, September, 2021), whose short, musical poems make stops in the terrains of childhood, difficult and somewhat violent; middle life, with parents breaking down and children moving away into their own lives; and later life when memory falters but passion does not. The poet Alan Shapiro calls these poems “a coherent, insightful, and very moving arc from the wrong beginnings of a childhood marked by privilege and abuse, whose traumatic dependencies were/are only partly tempered by ambivalent love and belated understanding, to a complex, mature and at times visionary grasp of the intricacies and inextricabilities of beauty and loss, desire and separation, without either side of the equation diminishing the power (for good or ill) of the other. The artistry of the poems is part and parcel of the maturity of the poet.”
Sponsored by Friends of the Concord Free Public Library.
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