Some of our programs may be disrupted when we move to the Senior Center. Please stay posted. We will keep you informed about the status of our programs, especially if you register for them. Please note that the majority of our programs are funded by the Friends of the Kent Memorial Library. Thanks, Friends! Please support them.
Thursday, December 1 at 6 – 7:30 p.m. Reading by Alison Moncrief Bromage, at the Poetry & Open Poetry Mic at the Suffield Academy Library on High Street.
Suffield native, Alison Moncrief Bromage, will read from her debut collection of poems, Daughter, Daedalus, which won the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, a national award given out by Truman State University Press for the best unpublished book-length collection of poetry in English. The poet will talk about poetry and answer questions after the reading. There will be an open mic before the reading, so bring your poems to share. The free program is a collaboration of the Academy and the Kent Memorial Library. Please register to attend the program. There is a separate registration for those who wish to participate in the open mic portion of the program.
Friday, December 2 from 10 to noon at the Suffield Senior Center. Poetry Workshop by Alison Moncrief Bromage
Between January 21 and March 4, Kent Memorial Library will run a Winter Reading Program for adults, “Around the World in 43 Days,” sponsored by The Friends of KML. Plan to do a little arm-chair travel, taste a little international cuisine, and generally perk up the winter months with books and dreams of hot, sunny islands . . . or the frozen tundra . . . or Paris in springtime . . . or Caribbean cruises . . . .
Great Decisions
Beginning Wednesday, February 22, 2 – 3:30 p.m.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, designed by the American Foreign Policy Association. It is an 8-week program which we will run every other week. Individuals who register for the program will receive a Briefing Book, paid for by The Friends of Kent Memorial Library. The Briefing Book will be available sometime in January 2017. Each week that the group meets, participants will read about the issue in the Briefing Book before the discussion and then discuss it at the meeting. The issues, which will be discussed are the most critical global issues facing America today:
• The Future of Europe
• Trade and Politics
• Conflict in the South China Sea
• Saudi Arabia in Transition
• U.S. Foreign Policy and Petroleum
• Latin America’s Political Pendulum
• Prospects for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Nuclear Security
Book Groups – New Members Welcome!
Thursday Afternoons at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, December 8: Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf. Thursday, January 12: Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
World Books at 7 p.m.
Thursday, December 15: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Thursday, January 19: The Dead by James Joyce
Books in the Parlor at 2 p.m.
There is no December meeting. Tuesday, January 24: The Frontiersmen by Allan Eckert. (This will be held at Deborah Long-Smith’s house and not at the Phelps-Hatheway House.)
Other Continuous Programs
Photo Café – First Tuesdays, December 6 and January 3, at 6:30 p.m.
Writer’s Workshop
Fourth Monday, January 23 at 7 p.m.
Socrates Café
Last Monday, January 30 at 7 p.m. (No December meeting for Writers Workship or Socrates Café.)