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Poets Laureate at Library, August 28

Reading with Poets Laureate 

Jack Crocker and Beate Sigriddaughter

August 28, 2018, 4:30pm

Silver City Public Library

515 West college Avenue

 

The Silver City Public Library will host a poetry reading with the Silver City/Grant County Poets Laureate on Tuesday, August 28, 4:30pm. The Poets Laureate, serving a two-year term that began in May 2017, are Jack Crocker and Beate Sigriddaughter.

 

Jack CrockerJack Crocker‘s poems have appeared in a variety of journals, and his latest collection, The Last Resort, was published in 2009 by the Texas Review Press. Crocker is also a musician. He once signed a recording and songwriting contract with Fretone Records in Memphis, but decided instead to become an English professor. Currently, he is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Western New Mexico University

 

 

Beate Sigriddaughter profile photo with a Native American rug in the background

Beate Sigrddaughter, originally from Germany, has published dozens of poems and short stories as well as novels. Her most recent published works are Audrey: A Book of Love and Xanthippe and Her Friends. Sigriddaughter has a website, Writing In A Woman’s Voice(writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com), which publishes novice and experienced women writers. For more information about Beate Sigriddaughter, visit sigriddaughter.com

 

 

 

 

For more information about library events, see silvercitypubliclibrary.org

 

 

 

 

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