Love Letters to the Wild: A Local Author Talk with Janet MacFadyen

The Greenfield Public Library is pleased to welcome local poet Janet MacFayden for a reading and talk about her latest book, *Love Letters to the Wild*, on Tuesday, March 24 at 6:00pm in the library’s Community Meeting Room.

Mary Gilliland, author of *Ember Days* and *The Devil's Fools* says of MacFadyen’s book:  A voice vigorous and sweet infuses *Love Letters to the Wild*. Janet MacFadyen’s instinct, affection, and knowledge of nature power forth direct address to our fellow constituents—from chickadees to woods to the sea’s “watery sunlit porches.” Have you considered the connection of stone “to the dreaming web”? This book exquisitely celebrates green, and includes dearest partnership, revered artwork, the heft of home, the luminosity of fashioned habitat. Read for its uplift, its movement from dryness to verdure, from windy to moist, its shadows, its joy in the holy earth.

Janet MacFadyen is the author of four full-length collections—most recently *Love Letters to the Wild* (Dos Madres) and *State of Grass* (Salmon Poetry)—and four chapbooks, including the poetry-photo praise songs to the earth *Adrift in the House of Rocks* and *Ribbon of Sandstone*, both in collaboration with the photographer Stephen Schmidt. She is the managing editor of Slate Roof Press, a poetry chapbook collaborative; in earlier lives she was a rock hound and worked for a meteorological instrument manufacturer.

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 the public.