Author Talk (and performance) with Chris Belden!
June 17 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Join us Tuesday, June 17th at 7pm at the Ridgefield Library for a reading/performance by Ridgefield author Chris Belden and contributors to the book Closer to Freedom, which he edited.
In addition to readings from the book, there will be a performance of a short play written by inmates. Scheduled to participate are former Garner librarian Mark Aldrich as well as Floyd Lawrence and Alexis Melendez.
For more than ten years, Chris Belden ran a weekly creative writing workshop at a maximum-security prison. Closer to Freedom demonstrates the deep humanity of society’s outcast, who, in their own words, explore the meaning of time, love, and the world they inhabit. In this stunning collection of prison writing, dozens of incarcerated men share poems, stories, and essays that celebrate the power of the written word.