Commenting on her 2006 book Hometown for an Hour, a reviewer in the New York Times Book Review wrote: “Rose has so much flair for figurative language she could probably make her living as a sidewalk similist, telling amused tourists what they remind her of: ‘Poplars waved their white-gloved leaves like royalty. / A viceroy pumped its bellows then became the flame. / White butterflies flapped dollhouse sheets above the flower heads / like Goldilocks looking for the right size bed.’ … At other moments, the book’s breezy postcard conceit turns bone-chilling,” the review stated.

The public is invited to the free poetry reading, which will be held in the school library’s reading room. Further information is available by calling Westover School at 203-758-2423.

The school is at 1237 Whittemore Road (Route 188) on The Green in Middlebury.