The Suffield Public Library Foundation is hosting a reading with author Kevin McCaffrey and Illustrator, Dana DuMont. Kevin McCaffrey has published Nightmare Therapy and a 2014 volume of poetry, Laughing Cult. His poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, the Trib Talk section of the Texas Tribune and Writer’s Almanac.
Dana DuMont is an artist, illustrator and educator and has collaborated on projects such as the 2018 paint restoration of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History RCA “Nipper” window.
McCaffrey will be reading from his newly published book, I Could Have Been More Wrong: Poems, described as “a new collection that oscillates between erudition and slapstick, from Virgil and Dante to a man who juggles his eyeballs. The poems of I Could Have Been More Wrong come out of nowhere to proclaim eccentric half-truths with deceptive simplicity. Declaring that the spirit of life is the spirit of play, Kevin McCaffrey delights in confronting the cacophonies of experience and trying to make them rhyme. These verses, mostly set in traditional forms, draw energy from the joy of singing out, almost spontaneously, about the sometimes quirkily ordinary vicissitudes of being.”
This is a free event that will take place on Saturday, March 9 at 2 p.m. in the Kent Memorial Library auditorium. Refreshments and book signing will follow the discussion.