Tompkins County Public Library will host award-winning poet
Peter Fortunato for a reading from his latest collection, “Late Morning:
New and Selected Poems,” December 18 at 6 p.m. in the BorgWarner Community
Room.
Published by Cayuga Lake Books, “Late Morning” spans more than 40 years of Fortunato’s work, including selections from his earliest published collections, “A Bell or a Hook” and “Letters to Tiohero.” Themes of these pieces are love of nature, human love, the revelatory power of dreams and spirituality.
Fortunato was a poetry apprentice of Gary Snyder and has taught writing at both Cornell University and Ithaca College. He is the winner of numerous awards for his writing and performance work, including the Emily Dickinson Prize of the Poetry Society of America and a Pablo Neruda Prize from the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
This program is free and open to the public. Copies of “Late Morning” will be available for purchase at the event.
For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
Published by Cayuga Lake Books, “Late Morning” spans more than 40 years of Fortunato’s work, including selections from his earliest published collections, “A Bell or a Hook” and “Letters to Tiohero.” Themes of these pieces are love of nature, human love, the revelatory power of dreams and spirituality.
Fortunato was a poetry apprentice of Gary Snyder and has taught writing at both Cornell University and Ithaca College. He is the winner of numerous awards for his writing and performance work, including the Emily Dickinson Prize of the Poetry Society of America and a Pablo Neruda Prize from the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
This program is free and open to the public. Copies of “Late Morning” will be available for purchase at the event.
For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
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