Online registration is required in order to receive the Zoom invitation link and the readings packet. Signed copies of Cortney’s new book will be available for purchase in advance of the program with a portion of the sales proceeds going to the library. Please contact Michael Bellacosa for payment and pick-up details at  mbellacosa@wiltonlibrary.org

Cortney Davis, the Poet Laureate of Bethel, is a nurse practitioner and award-winning poet whose work [including poetry, essays, book reviews and narrative non-fiction] has been published in many books, anthologies, and literary and medical journals. She’s been a Visiting Writer and seminar leader at numerous colleges and universities and has given poetry readings and workshops throughout the United States.

From her bio: “An early and prolonged separation from my parents and the various childhood experiences it informed gave rise to what poet Stanley Kunitz called “key images.” These recurrent ideas and themes from childhood often surface in creative writing, especially in poems. Perhaps my key images--the fear of separation from loved ones--also played a role in my choice of a caregiving profession.  For me, nursing and poetry eventually merged: poems became a perfect place in which the act of caring could offer a way of keeping, and the mysteries of our world might be revealed in the sensual and vulnerable reality of physical detail.”