Poets’ Corner will welcome featured poet and celebrated Author Irene O'Garden. An Open Mic will follow.
O’Garden has won or been nominated for prizes in nearly every writing category from stage to e-screen, to hardcovers and children’s books, as well as literary magazines and anthologies.
Her critically-acclaimed play Women on Fire played sold-out houses at Off-Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre and her new play, Little Heart, won a Berilla Kerr Playwriting Fellowship and full development at the New Harmony Play Project. O’Garden won a Pushcart Prize for her lyric essay “Glad to be Human,” and Harper published her first memoir Fat Girl. Her second, Risking the Rapids: How My Wilderness Journey Healed My Childhood was published by Mango in 2019. Fulcrum, published in 2017 by Nirala, is her first poetry collection.
O’Garden’s poems and essays have been featured in dozens of literary journals and award-winning anthologies and she has been honored with both an Alice Desmond Award and an Oppenheimer for her children’s books, which include Maybe My Baby, Forest What Would You Like and The Scribble Bubbly Carwash. www.ireneograden.com
Following O’Garden will be an open mic. Registration will be available on-site on the day of the reading. All writers are welcome! Weather permitting, this event will be held on our outdoor stage where the knoll meets the woods. In case of rain, it will be held indoors.