Party with the Poets at Book Publication Celebration

Poets and poetry lovers will celebrate the publication of Memory Keepers on Sunday, March 27 at 11:30 am, following the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County’s annual Poetry Sunday service. This will be the inaugural event in Door County’s celebration of National Poetry Month, which begins April 1.

Memory Keepers is Volume II of selected poems read by featured poets during the previous 12 months of the Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series. The book includes 28 poems by 15 poets. Volume I, released in April, 2010 was No Breath is Lost. Both volumes are produced by Helene Di Iulio.

The poets featured include Katie Schnorr, Barbara Larsen, Nancy Rafal, Ellen Kort, Ralph Murre, Loraine Brink, Jack Redell, Sharon Auberle, Caleb Whitney, Gary Jones and Michael Farmer, as well as Gibraltar High School students Caitlin Weber, Brandon Bogenschϋtz, Morgan Petersilka and Rachael Mickelson.

The celebration will include refreshments, music, impromptu readings of poems by their authors, and an opportunity for the poets to autograph the purchased books. The cost of the book is $10, with proceeds funding community service activities as well as promoting interest in poetry. Memory Keepers will be available at poetry events county- and state-wide as well as at UUFDC events.

The Dickinson Poetry Series is presented by the UUFDC the second Wednesday of each month, offering an opportunity for both experienced and new poets to share their works. It is free and open to the public.

The UUF is located at 10341 Highway 42, Ephraim. For more information visit http://www.uufdc.org.