Library to Host Hopper and Friends for Poetry Reading

Tompkins County Public Library will host county Poet Laureate Jack Hopper for “From the Finger Lakes,” a multi-poet reading, Saturday, November 19 at 2 p.m. in the BorgWarner Community Room.

Hopper will be joined by Nancy Couto, Kathleen Gemmell, Eric Machan Howd, Katharyn Howd Machan, Emma Karnes, Mary Beth O’Connor, Stanley O’Connor, Edward Ormondroyd, Steve Poleskie, Dan Rosenberg and Carol Rubinstein.  Each poet will read from their submissions to the recently-published “From the Finger Lakes: A Poetry Anthology.”

Published by Cayuga Lake Books, “From the Finger Lakes” features works from more than 100 veteran and novice poets.  Copies of the book and its companion prose anthology will be available for purchase at the Library event.

The reading is free and open to the public.  For more information, contact Teresa Vadakin at tvadakin@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 272.