An Evening of Poetry at the Piermont Library

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/.