On Saturday, April 16, at 9:45 a.m., Monadnock Writers’ Group celebrates National Poetry Month with award-winning New Hampshire poets Becky Dennison Sakellariou and Henry Walters.
The event is free and open to the public at Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St., or by Zoom. Send email to monadnockwriters@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
Both Sakellariou and Walters have poetry collections published by Hobblebush in its Granite State Poetry Series. Sakellariou has been making her way home to Peterborough after living most of her adult life in Greece. Her work has appeared in journals such as “Atlanta Review,” “Beloit Poetry Journal” and “Common Ground Review.” She has authored four books of poetry, with “The Importance of Bone” winning first prize in the 2005 Blue Light Press Chapbook Contest. Sakellariou has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Poetry Anthology award.
Walters’s path to New Hampshire took him from the upper Midwest to classics studies at Harvard University, falconry in Ireland and beekeeping in Sicily before he settled in the Granite State as writer-in-residence at the Dublin School. His work has been published in journals such as “The Threepenny Review,” “The Yale Review” and “Orion.” His poetry collection, “Field Guide A Tempo,” was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month has recognized poets and marked the importance of poetry in people’s lives. Since 1984, Monadnock Writers’ Group (MWG) has supported local writers of all genres and levels of achievement. Monthly meetings, held on the third Saturday of each month, bring a variety of writers to the Monadnock Region to offer their experiences.
In addition, MWG publishes periodic anthologies and “Smoky Quartz,” a semiannual online journal of literature and art. Throughout the year, MWG hosts public readings and informal gatherings to raise awareness of the literary talent in the Monadnock Region. Learn more at monadnockwriters.org and smokyquartz.org. For information about this meeting or other Monadnock Writers’ Group activities, senemailmonadnockwriters@gmail.com.