Please join the library in celebrating National Poetry Month. You are invited to hear an engaging poetry reading by Valerie A. Smith and Christine Swint. For the complete series of poetry events in April visit cobbcat.org/diverse-verses

Valerie A. Smith’s poetry appears in Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor, Typehouse Magazine, Oyster River Pages, Wayne Literary Review, Obsidian, Solstice,  Auburn Avenue, South 85,  and BlazeVox.  She was selected as a 2022 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Suwanee Writers Conference. Her first full length poetry book, Back to Alabama, will be published in 2023.

Christine Swint’s poems have appeared most recently in Tinderbox, Heron Tree, Atlanta Review, Ruminate, and others. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets. Her first poetry collection, Swimming This, was published in 2015 by FutureCycle Press.  She writes occasionally about poetry, art, pilgrimage, and yoga at Balanced on the Edge,

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