With Apologies To A Tree:

Poetry At Gunn Library

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, September 12, at 7 pm, Gunn Memorial Library will host a poetry reading by Nancy Anne Miller entitled “With Apologies to a Tree.” The poet will read from her Nettleton Hollow collection of poems that are based on the landscape around her home in Washington, Conn.

Nancy Anne Miller was trained in the visual arts with a bachelor’s degree in studio arts from Skidmore College and an MA in painting from Goddard College. She is currently completing her master’s in poetry at Norwich School of Art & Design in England, where she has studied for four years with the Oxford Press poet George Szirtes.

Ms Miller’s poetry has been published in journals in America, England, and in her birthplace, Bermuda. She is a recent recipient of Bermuda Arts Council Grant for Poetry which will enable publication of her poems about Bermuda in a book, The Sun in Three Countries.

“As a poet, I want to dig into existence with language using metaphor or the ancient community of one like thing to another to excavate hidden knowledge, to inform one and make me able to bear all this unbearable beauty,” said the poet.

“The poem is a means for me to explore the inherent reaching wholeness of the world around me. To listen, to hear, and to finally speak the wider truth in a silence that activates me to a noise-making or an ordering of words into song,” she continued.

The program is free and open to the public. The library is at the juncture of Wykeham Road and Route 47 in Washington. Call the library at 860/868-7586, for further information.