Rattle of the Sun: Local Author Gregg Orifici

The Greenfield Public Library  is pleased to welcome local author Gregg Orifice to our Conference Room on Tuesday, November 4 at 2:00 pm to talk about the connections between poetry and place, flowers and invasive weeds, the rapture of summer and the meditations of winter in New England and abroad. 

*Rattle of the Sun* (July 2025) is an arresting, first-time poetry collection by Vermont-based poet and garden designer Gregg Orifici. One doesn’t often correlate poetry and gardening with the word “arresting,” but Orifici’s book of poems compiled over decades, experiments with language and invites the willing reader on a pilgrimage through flowering and feeling. 

Gregg Orifici is a poet, memoirist, international educator and garden/landscape designer. His experiments with voice, structure and musicality commingle the intimate with the universal. He lives with his artist partner and four Jack Russells on a hilltop garden-in-progress in southern Vermont. 

Books will be available for purchase at the event. 

For more information, contact Lisa Prolman at librarian@greenfieldpubliclibrary.org or call (413) 772-1544.

This program, generously sponsored by the Friends of the Greenfield Public Library, is free and open to everyone in our community.