Shelter Island Poetry

 

Tonight we present three east end poets - George Held, Pauline Yeats and Virginia Walker - reading at the Shelter Island Library in June 2021 at the library’s annual Richard Varney poetry session.

Poetry lover Richard Varney grew up in Garden City and spent summers on Shelter Island.

He graduated from Harvard and worked in government and the corporate world. 

Varney took over the poetry roundtable at the Shelter Island Library in 2016.

After Varney died of cancer in 2018 his friends set up a poetry collection in his name at the library.

Tonight’s poetry session was organized by Shelter Island poet Virginia Walker.

Listen here

The compete poetry session recording is here

Diane Glancy & Spencer Reece

Long time friends Diane Glancy and Spencer Reece recorded by Canios Cultural Café in December 2020.

Diane Glancy is professor of English at Macalester College in Minneapolis Minesota.

Her Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears was published in 1998 by Mariner Books.

Her sequel, Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees resettlement in the hard years following Removal.  It was published in  2009 by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Spencer Reece was born in 1963 in Hartford, Connecticut. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker and in many literary journals

His collection The Clerk’s Tale was published in 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

listen here

A complete recording of the Zoom session is here