Thursday, April 16
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Registration Required Below
April is National Poetry Month, and what better way to celebrate than an evening with our favorite poet and two-time Emmy Award-winner, Ira Joe Fisher.
Ira joins us to talk about his craft and share some selections from his latest published poetry collection, The Birth of Snow. This lyrical collection explores the enduring rhythms of rural America, capturing the textures of small-town existence and drawing on themes of memory, aging, loss — and the fragile yet profound bonds of human connection.
A book sale and signing will take place after the program.
About the Author
Ira Joe Fisher is a poet and storyteller who has spent decades bringing language to life through both the written and spoken word. Fisher is the author of several works of poetry and essays and known for public readings that blend his unique style of humor, close observation and warm conversational style.
In addition to his literary career, Fisher spent many years as a broadcast journalist and weather/features reporter with CBS, ABC, and NBC, where his love of language became a hallmark of his on-air presence. Winner of two Emmy Awards for television writing, Fisher served as a contributing editor for Spokane Magazine, and also authored regular newspaper columns in The Stamford Advocate and The Greenwich Times. Fisher’s poetry has appeared in Poetry New York, The Alembic, The New York Quarterly, Entelechy International, Ridgefield Magazine and the anthology Confrontation.
In addition to The Birth of Snow, Fisher has authored four additional books of poetry, including Some Holy Weight in the Village Air and Songs from an Earlier Century. He is also the author of Remembering Rew, a poetry chapbook. Ira was born in Salamanca, N.Y. and has taught communications and broadcast history at New England College and poetry at the University of Connecticut, New England College and Founders Hall in Ridgefield. He graduated from New England College with a master’s degree in fine arts.