Poetry Reading with Sally Van Doren

Poet and artist Sally Van Doren will be our special guest at the Norfolk Library on Wednesday, July 16, at 5:30 p.m. Sally will share poems from her published collections as well as several new works. There will be time for questions and responses after the reading.

Light refreshments will be served. Registration is appreciated.

An acclaimed poet and practicing artist, Sally Van Doren is the author of four poetry collections, including Sibilance (LSU Press 2023) and Sex at Noon Taxes, winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have appeared widely in national and international publications, such as Poetry Daily, Poetry London, The New Republic, Poetry Ireland Review, Prairie Schooner, NPR, PBS, and The Poetry Foundation. Since 2006, she has added a line a day to her ongoing poem, “The Sense Series” excerpts of which served as the text for a multi-media installation at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

Raised in St. Louis, Van Doren holds degrees from Princeton and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She now divides her time between Cornwall and New York. She leads an ongoing writing workshop at the Scoville Memorial Library in Salisbury and has taught previously at the 92nd Street Y, the St. Louis Public Schools and the Cornwall Library. She works from her studio in West Cornwall.