![]() ![]() Note that although Yolen is well known as a children’s book author, this event is not suitable for children under the age of 11. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scott will perform original songs and read from her 2015 collection, “Up to the Windy Gate: Poems of Grief and Grace,” and other poems. Yolen will be reading from her books, “Things to Say to a Dead Man: Poems at the End of a Marriage and After,” and “The Bloody Tide: Poems about Politics and Power,” as well as others. Yolen and Scott will present poems, songs and a recitation with improvisatory singing that brings poetry and song together in a way that both women say made the hair on their back of their necks stand on end the first time they tried it. in the Neilson Browsing Room at Smith College’s Neilson Library.Ĭo-sponsored by The Poetry Center at Smith and Straw Dog Writers Guild, the performance brings together two longtime friends and Smith alumni who are well known in the Pioneer Valley for their award-winning creative work: Yolen as a poet, non-fiction, science fiction and children’s book author Scott as a psychotherapist, poet and singer/songerwriter. Recently, I sat down to talk with Jane Yolen and Molly Scott about their upcoming performance, “Moving Through Grief: Poems, Songs and After,” to be held Thursday, April 14, 7 p.m. ![]()
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