On the Verge poems: A book launch and celebration featuring Marie Rickmyer.

Saturday, January 24th 3-5pm. Refreshments and lite bites served following reading. mrickmyer1@gmail.com for more info.

From the words of Deborah Keenan, “Marie Rickmyer has written a fierce, compelling collection of poems. Despite all the extraordinary images of deprivation and fear connected to poems about family of origin, this poet’s faith, and hope for a better life shines through, and the reader finds, as the book steps farther away from the poet’s past, that there is intense hope and gratitude the narrator conveys with her usual sharp, suprising images. A wonderful, tough, first collection of poems by a poet with a true lyric voice.”