POSTPONED - An Evening With Sarah Sutro

THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO A LATER DATE.

Please join us May 8 with Sarah Sutro for a reading from her new poetry book “Natural Wonders”.

These poems are guides to seeing up close, they move throughout a year, tempered by the fundamentals of sun, rain, snow, darkness as the basis of human survival, and the re-creation of beauty thanks to a poet’s eye. Balancing inner feeling with outer circumstance, the poet brings awareness to natural processes, that define her engagement with the world.

The poems point out split second changes, interactions within the environment, and capture the upfront miniscule moment and the constancy of rhythms, arcs and gifts from nature. A kind of rallying to care for earth’s house and our ultimate survival, they stress the necessity to repeat these daily excursions and the urgency to keep on cultivating, walking, praising, looking ahead – ultimately conversing with the earth every day to protect and appreciate her.

Originally from the Boston area, Sarah Sutro studied writing at Tufts University Women’s School and BCAE, and art at Cornell, Yale at Norfolk, and the University of the Arts, London.

She has taught writing in the interdisciplinary programs IRO – Lesley University and Union Institute and University; and art at Emerson College, Mass Art, SMFA, UMass Boston, Cornell University, Ithaca College, Boston State College and Lesley College of Art &Design (MFA).

As well as Natural Wonders, she is the author of the poetry book Études (Finishing Line Press) and a book of essays, COLORS: Passages through Art, Asia and Nature (Blue Asia Press). Her poetry has been published internationally, including International Poetry Review; Amsterdam Quarterly; Panoply, Journal of the Intelligent Traveler; Rockhurst Review; The Big Chili (BKK); Die Brucke #9; and The Hard Work of Hope (Mass Poetry).

Anthologies including her work are Improv (Simplicity in the 21st Century); Bangkok Blondes; Boston, Bangkok, Brattleboro: Alien Pens on Familiar Places; Unbearable Uncertainty; Life Stories; From the Finger Lakes; the Ithaca Women’s Anthology, and Anthology of Universal Oneness (India).

She was a finalist both for the Robert Frost Poetry Award and the Mass Cultural Council Poetry grant. She had residencies at MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony, Ossabaw Island Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, Art Dulcinium-Montenegro, and the American Academy in Rome.

After several years living in Thailand and Bangladesh, she has settled in the Northern Berkshires. Her art work can be seen at www.sarahsutro.com.