06/18/2025
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm
Join the Norfolk Library for their monthly Poetry Café in the Great Hall on Wednesday, June 18 from 6:00 to 6:45 p.m. Bring a poem to read (either one you’ve read or written), or come ready to listen to and enjoy poetry. There will not be an academic discussion on the pieces, rather time to celebrate and share the poetry that we love.
For June attendees will celebrate Juneteenth by sharing poems written by Amanda Gorman in “Call Us What We Carry.” Formerly titled “The Hill We Climb and Other Poems,” the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In “Call Us What We Carry,” Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning.
Wine and tea will be served. Please register below. The first 10 people to register will receive a free copy of “Call of What We Carry.”
To register, please click here.
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Norfolk Library
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