The Hancock Town Library will host “Poetry & Pie” on Thursday, May 21, at 7 p.m., featuring local poet Henry Walters and former New Hampshire Poet Laureate Alice B. Fogel in a springtime reading and conversation centered on trees.
The event will include poems by Walters, Fogel and other poets inspired by the natural world, along with an invitation for audience members to share their own reflections on trees and the arboreal landscape.
Walters, a Hancock resident, is the author of the poetry collections “The Nature Thief” and “Field Guide A Tempo.” In addition to writing poems, plays and essays, he translates from Italian, writes for Firelight Theatre Workshop in Peterborough and runs Monadnock Falconry, an organization dedicated to caring for birds of prey.
Fogel, New Hampshire’s poet laureate emerita, has authored seven books of poetry, including “Falsework,” published in 2024, and “Strange Terrain,” a guide to appreciating poetry. She has received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and tutors neurodivergent students at Landmark College in Putney, Vermont.
Homemade pie will be served following the reading. The event is free and open to the public.