VIENNA – Come enjoy an hour of “Poetry and Images” by Carolyn Locke at the Vienna Union Hall on Wednesday, May 18 at 7 p.m. Carolyn will read selected poems from her three books. The poems will be supplemented with slide images making this a visual as well as verbal exploration.
A graduate of Bates College and the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College, Carolyn taught English, creative writing, and humanities classes at Mount View High School for many years. She was the recipient of several teacher travel grants, including a three-week Fulbright Memorial Fund trip to Japan, a six-week Fulbright-Hays Seminar in Morocco, two three-week Primary Source trips to China, and a four-week Fulbright-Hays Special Projects trip to Japan. In 2011 and 2014, she was a presenter at the Belfast Poetry Festival. In 2015 she was the selected poet for the 2015 Hugh Ogden Memorial Poetry Evening in Rangeley.
She has published poems in a variety of publications, including Puckerbrush Review, Off the Coast, Bangor Daily News, Aurorean, Kyoto Journal, and the Take Heart anthology of poems from Maine selected by Wesley McNair. For more information, click here.
Each of Carolyn’s three books is an unique presentation:
The Place We Become (Maine Authors Publishing 2015) is a poetry collection that invites the reader on a journey of transformation. Using meticulously selected details of places as familiar as Maine and as distant as Morocco or China, these poems integrate the external and internal worlds of experience, tracing the process by which people slip identity and ego and enter into a larger space.
Always This Falling (Maine Authors Publishing 2010) is a collection of poems of close observation. Both the commonplace and the exotic take on richer meanings through simple yet evocative words and images. In free verse and occasional stream-of-consciousness style, the poems explore events and emotions as familiar as a kitchen (“French Bread”) and as alien as a hospital room (“Keeping Vigil”). Locke’s unique poetic voice will speak to every reader.
Not One Thing: Following Matsuo Basho’s Narrow Road to the Interior (Maine Authors Publishing 2013) invites readers to join the author on a haunting journey to Japan where they will encounter a landscape rich with natural beauty, history, literature, culture, and contemporary Japanese people. Weaving photographs, diary entries, and poems, it enters the territory of the heart—a place as ordinary as a sprig of lavender and as large as the universe.
Please join us for this lyrical presentation. There will be time for questions after the reading and all three of her books will be available for purchase and signing. Refreshments will be provided by the Dr. Shaw Memorial Library in Mount Vernon. Donations are appreciated. For more information, contact Muffy Floyd (293-2148).
