Join us for our annual Poetry & Prose event featuring two local literary powerhouses who are both debuting new books this year! This event is free and open to the public.
Jonathan Johnson is the author of May Is An Island. "If the dead are a sea and the living an island, these poems speak from the shore. Their steady company consoles and reminds us that the wages of mortal awareness and sorrow endured can be attention and generosity. From mournful solitude and wanderings as far as Paris, Greece and Spain, Johnson returns again and again to his familiar Scottish coasts, Highlands, and relations; to fatherhood and romantic love; to sensory wonder and the reverence of moments; and now and then to outright grace."
Sharma Shields is the author of The Cassandra. Kirkus gave The Cassandra a starred review: “Rooted in the geography and culture of the communities Hanford displaced, Shields’ reworking of the classic myth—about a young woman whose warnings about a future she alone can see are ignored—is filled with grotesque and violent images and episodes of keening sorrow. Shields delivers what her heroine cannot: a warning, impossible to ignore, about the costs of blind adherence to ideology.”
Learn more about Sharma and Jonathan on our author page!
https://getlitfestival.org/2019-festival-authors/
