“THRESHOLDS”
Art at the edges of life. Poetry of loss, yearning, caring and healing. Join us for an evening of sharing and discussion about major life transitions as expressed through the arts. Readings from recently released poetry collections by Westport poet Sarah W. Bartlett and her Vermont colleague, Meg Reynolds. Visual Art by Meg Reynolds and Desiree Brunton.
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Sarah W. Bartlett is a local poet who facilitates the Westport Arts Group poetry group. She has brought two books into the world from writinginsideVT, the year-round weekly writing program she founded in 2010 for Vermont’s incarcerated women:
“Life Lines: Re-Writing Lives from Inside Out” (Green Writers Press, 2019); and “Hear Me, See Me: Incarcerated Women Write” (Orbis Books, 2013). She has authored three poetry chapbooks with Finishing Line Press, “Waking to Brevity” (2024), “Slow Blooming Gratitudes” (2017) and “Into the Great Blue” (2011). Additional work appears in Adanna, Ars Medica, the Aurorean, Chrysalis, Colere, Lilipoh, Minerva Rising, Mom Egg Review, PMS:PoemMemoirStory, Women’s Review of Books; and numerous anthologies, including the award-winning “Women on Poetry,” (McFarland & Co. Inc., 2012). Word-midwife, grandmother and gardener, she celebrates nature’s healing wisdom and the human spirit’s landscapes.
Sarah’s recent collection, “Waking to Brevity” (Finishing Line Press, 2024) is a 33-poem letter to her husband who suffered from Parkinson’s Disease the final decade of his life. These are “poems so tender and fierce in their ability to walk the reader through days and nights we hope never to face ourselves. I can see myself reaching for this collection like a lifeline when I am faced with losses I feel I cannot bear” NM.
The poems in Meg’s “Does the Earth” (Harpoon Books, 2023) address an imagined daughter with intimate intensity as the writer explores her transformative journey towards motherhood. “In clear- eyed language shimmering with urgency she moves from loss, through longing toward a future of fierce connection. To her daughter she offers, ‘wonder is a discipline I wanted you to be good at.’ “AP
Desiree Brunton at info@fourcornersarts.org. or 401-624- 2600
What: Thresholds: An Evening of Poetry and Art
Readings from poetry collections by Westport poet Sarah W. Bartlett and her colleague, Meg Reynolds.
Visual Art by Meg Reynolds and Desiree Brunton
When: October 5th at 7:00 -8:30 pm
Where: The Meeting House, 3850 Main Road, Tiverton Four Corners, RI 02878
Admission: Suggested Donation: $10 Cash or Check at the door