Earth Households Reading
Thu, Apr 25
|Lower Level Meeting Room RF Library
River Falls Public Library will host an environmentally themed reading of poetry and prose. Featured readers are Maureen Ash, Thomas R. Smith, and Ted Tollefson, with an open mic to follow.
Time & Location
Apr 25, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Lower Level Meeting Room RF Library, 140 Union St, River Falls, WI 54022, USA
About the event
Maureen Ash, River Falls, has loved horses, being outside, and writing about both for most of her life. Her memoir, Holding the Lines: Horses, Hard Work, Love, and Potatoes, was published in late 2023. It’s about her family, their farm, and the horses who powered it. Maureen also writes poems and bakes bread.
Thomas R. Smith has published many poems on environmental themes, as well as a prose book called Poetry on the Side of Nature: Writing the Nature Poem as an Act of Survival (2022). He helped celebrate the first Earth Day in River Falls as a student in 1970. His poems often observe and record the natural history of the Kinnickinnic River near River Falls.
Ted Tollefson has served as a Unitarian Universalist minister in Minnesota and Wisconsin since 1980. His first book of poems, Household of Joy, was published last year. He'll have a new book of…