Join Solomon Wright Public Library and the Hoosic River Watershed Association (HooRWA) in Pownal, VT for a poetry reading on Friday, November 14 from 5:30-6:30pm with local poet, David Crews, from his book-length poem, HOOSIC RIVER. This event is free and open to the public. Proceeds from all books sold will be donated to HooRWA.

These poems were written while visiting various public-protected lands inside the river’s watershed, places that reside in and around ancestral lands and the home today of Muhheaconneok and western Abenaki peoples. The river’s name belongs to the Algonquin language family and Algonquin peoples came to this land as home over twelve thousand years ago as the last glaciers retreated from the region when the river, too, came into being.

David Crews is a writer who lives and works at Clear Brook farm, an organic fruit and vegetable farm located at the edge of the Hoosic river watershed in Shaftsbury, Vermont. He is author of Incantation, a limited edition handmade chapbook of poems designed and produced by Josh Dannin of Directangle Press (2022), Wander-Thrush: Lyric Essays of the Adirondacks (Ra Press, 2018), and High Peaks (Ra Press, 2015)—a poetry collection that catalogs hiking the “Adirondack 46ers” in upstate New York. His newest work, Hoosic River: A poem, is now available with NatureCulture. Find more information at davidcrewspoetry.com