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Poet's Voice: Meet & Greet

Students in 4th-12th grade can come hear from poet Thanhhà Lai, who will share personal photos and discuss themes of starting over.

Register at bottom for the 6:15 pm meet & greet.

To register for the separate 7:00 pm Poet's Voice program, click HERE.

Thanhhà Lai is a Vietnamese-American writer whose first novel, Inside Out & Back Again, won the National Book Award and a Newbery Honor and was partly based on her childhood as a refugee growing up in the southern United States.

Poet's Voice will present New York Times bestselling poet, Kate Baer, at Darien Library's Community Room on April 23 at 2:00 pm.

Date:
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Time:
6:15pm - 6:40pm
Location:
Marx Family Black Box Theater
Audience:
  Children     Teens  
Categories:
  Author Talk     Book Discussion     Friends     Lecture and Conversation     Literature and Writing  
Registration has closed.

The Poet's Voice is sponsored by the Friends of Greenwich and Darien Libraries and the Manacher Family. The Manacher Family has been supporting the Poet's Voice reading, at Greenwich Library and Darien Library, in-honor-of Horace and Zelda Manacher since 1977 through the Horace E. Manacher Poetry Fund. This year, Greenwich Library, along with Darien Library, is please to partner with Wilton Library on this upcoming event. 

Questions? Contact Rick Hansen, Local History Librarian: rhansen@greenwichlibrary.org or (203) 622-7948