Dramatic Poetry Reading with Margaret Gibson

Join us as Margaret Gibson, Connecticut Poet Emerita, offers a dramatic adaptation of her most recent collection, Draw Me Without Boundaries. Ms. Gibson will be accompanied by actress Tori Richnavsky for this reading.

The poems, prose pieces, and monologues in Draw Me Without Boundaries serve as a dialogue between Lena, a memory care patient, and her artist granddaughter Zoe, who has left New York City at the height of the COVID pandemic to paint in solitude at her grandmother’s house. Powerful love between a grandmother and a granddaughter animates the voices in this poignant series of inner monologues set against the backdrop of global climate crisis and the COVID pandemic.

Margaret Gibson’s Draw Me without Boundaries lays bare the integrity and depth of inquiry it takes to make life and death choices in a broken world. This luminous book—innovative, suspenseful, deeply moving—reflects in conjoined poetry and prose the profound issues of our time.

Join us at the Ridgefield Library, Thursday April 10th, at 7pm. Books will be available for purchase and signing!