Professor Dennis Barone — West Hartford's New Poet Laureate — to Read at West Hartford Public Library
On September 23, professor, poet and author Dennis Barone will read from his work in an event entitled, “An Evening with Dennis Barone, Poet Laureate.”
Saint Joseph College’s own Dennis Barone (professor of English and director of American Studies) will present “An Evening with Dennis Barone, Poet Laureate” at the West Hartford Public Library on Wednesday, September 23 from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. The event, which takes place in the Library Meeting Room, is free of charge and open to the public. Barone’s books will be available for purchase at the event.
Barone is expected to read from his 14 books, including the most recent which he co-edited with West Hartford resident James Finnegan: Visiting Wallace: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Wallace Stevens (University of Iowa Press, 2009). In 2008 Quale Press published North Arrow, a collection of 17 stories that traverse stylistic, emotional, and geographical landscapes.
he poet Noah Eli Gordon has written: “There is a muscularity with which [Barone's] writing unfolds, an accumulative approach that manages to move each piece through a veritable cornucopia of contrasting images and characters, of sets and props, enlivened by his consistently rhythmic and often speedy prose.” In 1998 Left Hand Books published his volume of selected poems entitled Separate Objects.
For more information, visit http://www.westhartfordlibrary.org/.
