Margaret Gibson Poetry

Readings

Margaret Gibson is available for readings and workshops in person or by Zoom. See “Contact.”

Hello Poets and Friends,

My new book, DRAW ME WITHOUT BOUNDARIES, is just out from LSU Press.This is a different sort of poetry book—two speakers (Lena and Zoe) and a narrative blend of poetry and prose. Please see the brief description below the dates of the readings.  

I hope to see you at one (or more) of these readings and to be able to share this new work with you.  Books will be on sale at the readings.

October 9: in Hartford CT, at Real Art Ways, sponsored by RIVERWOOD, at 7:00 p.m. Margaret Gibson reading Lena, Tori Richnavsky reading Zoe.

November 9: in West Hartford, Word House Poetry Series, at Noah Webster House, from
2-4p.m.  Margaret Gibson reading Lena, Heather Oakley reading Zoe.

November 14:  in Storrs, CT at Barnes and Noble Bookstore, sponsored by University of CT English Department, at 5:30 p.m.  Margaret Gibson reading Lena, Heather Oakley reading Zoe.

November 22: in Stonington CT at the La Grua Center, at 6:30 p.m, sponsored by ARTS CAFÉ, MYSTIC.  Margaret Gibson reading Lena, Tori Richnavsky reading Zoe.

December 19: in Preston CT, at the Preston Town Library, from 5-7, sponsored by The Friends of the Library.  Margaret Gibson reading Lena, Heather Oakley reading Zoe.

“Draw me without boundaries,” Lena says to her granddaughter Zoe, an artist. This book, a suspenseful read and a fluid meditation, is their love story, told in their voices: inner monologues whose prose and poetry are set against the shifting background of global climate crisis and the COVID pandemic. DRAW ME WITHOUT BOUNDARIES is a compelling investigation of the deep connections possible between people despite their physical isolation. Zoe has left New York City to paint in solitude at her grandmother’s abandoned house in the woods near the seacoast of Connecticut.  Having fled her failed marriage, unexpectedly pregnant, she faces the choice to continue or end her pregnancy, seeking clarity by walking the labyrinth of the woods.  Lena, once a poet and a keeper of journals, has been moved to a memory care facility where she faces choiceless isolation, continuing memory loss, and death, living only for her granddaughter’s visits and the vivid, if occasional, revelations of her fractured memories. Margaret Gibson, long respected for her skillful poetry and for a depth of attention that is both fearless and tender, has given us a brilliant book that reflects back to us the profound issues of our time. 
(description provided by LSU Press.)