Jane Hicks
Award-winning poet Jane Hicks, a Kingsport, Tennessee, native, headlines the “Annual Celebration of Regional Poetry” Sunday, April 13, at 3 p.m. at the Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church, Abingdon, Virginia.
The event is part of the Sunday with Friends literary series sponsored by the Friends of the Washington County Public Library. This spring the series has moved from the library to the church while the library undergoes renovations.
Hicks has published several volumes of poetry over the years. Her new collection, “The Safety of Small Things,” juxtaposes the splendor and revelation of nature and science, the circle of life, how family and memory give honor to those we’ve lost, and how they can all fit together. This lyrical and contemplative yet provocative collection sings a song of lucidity, redemption and celebration.
Hicks is joined in this celebration by Daryl Ann Beeghley, Henry McCarthy, Margie Ann Stanko and David Winship, poets from the Appalachian Center for Poets and Writers. There will be book sales and signings as well.
For more information, visit www.wcpl.net.
