The William Hall Library has invited three notable Rhode Island poets to read work that paints pictures of summer scenes and to sign and sell copies of their books. Come join us for this celebration of all things poetic! 

Free and open to the public. Register below to receive email reminders about the event or contact the library for assistance.

Karen Donovan’s newest collection of poems, Monad+Monadnock, was published in 2022. Her book Planet Parable appears in the innovative multi-author volume Trio along with complete books by the poets Diane Raptosh and Daneen Wardrop. Her other books of poems are Your Enzymes Are Calling the Ancients, which won the Lexi Rudnitsky / Editor’s Choice Award, and Fugitive Red, which won the Juniper Prize. She is also the author of Aard-vark to Axolotl, a collection of tiny stories and essays. She has new work in the 2022 anthology Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. From 1985 to 2005 she co-edited ¶: A Magazine of Paragraphs, a print journal of very short prose. She lives in Riverside, way too close to the water. Read more about Karen at karendonovanpoetry.com.

David Dragone founded and served as Editor-in-Chief of Crosswinds Poetry Journal, an international journal of poetry that published nine annual contest issues, from 2015-2024. He is the author of two full-length poetry books, Temperaments, and the more recent Primal, published in 2022. David was a finalist in The Orchard Street Press national poetry contest in 2023. He facilitates poetry workshops and teaches violin. Read more about him at davedragone.com.

Thomas D. Jones is formerly the publisher of Wings Literary Magazine and Litlover. Among other publications, his poetry has recently appeared in Walt Whitman Two Hundred and Five Anthology, Silk Road Blog, Minute Musings, Arlington Literary Review, and manofaran substack. Books include Genealogy X and Voices from the Void. See more at tdjonespoet.weebly.com and poetdude.substack.com.