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Sunken Garden Poetry Festival featuring Billy Collins

At the Sunken Garden Poetry Festivals, renowned poets read
selections of their work in the historic and picturesque garden of Hill-Stead
estate. Viewers are welcome to bring their own seating. Food is available for
purchase from Tallula’s Catering. Evenings begin with music from various
artists, and poetry follows. Come rain or shine! Admission is $10 per person,
18 and under are free.


This week’s festival features musical group Indra and poet Billy
Collins.


Indra is an accomplished, adventurous jazz trio that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark, featuring the supple and moving vocals of New York City native Indra Rios-Moore on soulfully arranged songs. From American jazz standards and contemporary arrangements of traditional folk songs to Mexican boleros and newly composed pieces, Indra’s style and voice has been described as a blend of Eva Cassidy’s blues and folk style with the charisma of the legendary Sarah Vaughan.

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Billy Collins is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar; he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library “Literary Lion.” His last three collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. His readings are usually standing room only, and his audience – enhanced tremendously by his appearances on National Public Radio – includes people of all backgrounds and age groups. The poems themselves best explain this phenomenon. The typical Collins poem opens on a clear and hospitable note but soon takes an unexpected turn; poems that begin in irony may end in a moment of lyric surprise. No wonder Collins sees his poetry as “a form of travel writing” and considers humor “a door into the serious.” It is a door that many thousands of readers have opened with amazement and delight.





 

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