The Poetry of Richard Wollman and Kirun Kapur
Saturday, April 30 at 10:15 am (online)
How much of the world is gathered in the work of these two poets from Amesbury, just across the river! In their cadences we hear echoes of the Psalms and the Ramayana. They bring us news from Steubenville, Basra, Surat; from Ashkelon and the defiled Jewish cemetery in Carpentras. But they also bring our attention to what’s happening in the sky above the Merrimac River and in the waiting room of the hospital, for theirs are intensely personal poems. Richard Wollman’s newly published work is a love poem which reads like a whispered prayer to “the twin gods of want and need.” Kirun Kapur’s new book makes expressive use of silence and dares to utter in compassion what emerges from silence, words left unsaid for generations.
Please join us for this online event! To register, please visit the Newburyport Literary Festival website: https://newburyportliteraryfestival.org/2022-schedule-of-events/
Richard Wollman 