Ira Joe Fisher
Poetry Reading by Ira Joe Fisher
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April is National Poetry Month and we are thrilled to welcome Ira Joe Fisher back to Wilton Library from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 24, to get us ready with a Poetry Reading. Ira was awarded two regional Emmys for television writing. He is the author of Remembering Rew, a poetry chapbook, and the full-length collections Some Holy Weight in the Village Air, Songs From an Earlier Century, and The Creek at the End of the Lawns. Ira has a master of fine arts degree in poetry from New England College. He has taught poetry, communications and broadcast history at New England College; he currently lectures and teaches at the University of Connecticut (Stamford, Waterbury, and Torrington) and Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Ira regularly performed in the long-running musical The Fantasticks from 1995 to 2000.