Beat Poetry Evening
Thursday, April 21 at 7 p.m.
Main Library, DiMattia Building, Third Floor Auditorium

Featuring George Wallace – An hour of reading and discussion, followed by Q&A, concluding with an open mic session.

Poet George Wallace (photo from Ferguson Library website)

George Wallace, Suffolk County’s First Poet Laureate, is an award winning poet and journalist from New York who has performed his work across America and in the great cities of Europe. In 2000, he founded Poetrybay, a prestigious online poetry publication.

While influenced by a number of aesthetics, Wallace’s poetry frequently constitutes a departure from conventional academic poetry of the late 20th century, amalgamating directions suggested by French Surrealism and American Beat Prosody, emphasizing invention and the imagination as the wellspring for narrative.

George Wallace has recently been named Writer in Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace.

— an announcement from Ferguson Library