Poetry Reading with Madeline Tiger & Carole Stone

Please join us for an evening of poetry, Thursday, March 15, at 7, featuring two of our celebrated local poets: Madeline Tiger and Carole Stone.

Madeline Tiger explores the powerlessness and the strength of girlhood with scrupulous attention to detail. In From The Viewing Stand she is the child observer, bewildered and sometimes hurt by events and adults around her. In each poem she deftly captures a tone of both innocence and experience –how the child feels, what the adult knows. Like “The Weeping Cherry Tree,” the poems in this memoir-like collection both “weep” and “burst”.—Jessica G. De Koninck

…from early childhood to young adulthood, to the mature poet immersed in the solace-making of her poem’s words: where the child and finally, we, her readers, are brought to bear witness to what it is to be kept at a distance from any natural familial warmth. Where the only antidote is to bring us back from the viewing stand into the heart’s dark undertow of poems always pulling on us, always about to take us under, far from any safe shore. Here the child, through the poet she becomes, learns her craft, her irony’s survival skills, even “… how good it feels / to be all alone in the sun in the deep cold.” —Robert Murphy

Carole Stone's most recent book of poetry is Traveling with the Dead, Backwaters Press, 2007. Other books include Lime and Salt, Carriage House Press and five poetry chapbooks. A chapbook, Paris Etudes, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2008. English Professor Emerita, Montclair State University, she received Fellowships to Hawthornden Castle International Writers Retreat, Scotland, Chateau de Lavigny, Switzerland, the Rothermere Institute of American Studies, Oxford University, England, and three Fellowships from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Event date:

Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 7:00pm

Event address:

54 Fairfield St.

07042-4137 Montclair