Harry Bennett Branch Local Author Series: Laurel S. Peterson and Van Hartmann

In celebration of National Poetry Month, poet and mystery author Laurel S. Peterson will talk about writing poetry and share her writing techniques with poet Van Hartmann, Professor Emeritus of English at Manhattanville College.

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Laurel S. Peterson is a community college English professor whose poetry has been published in literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks, That’s the Way the Music Sounds and Talking to the Mirror, as well as two full-length collections, Do You Expect Your Art to Answer? and Daughter of Sky. She has also written two mystery novels, Shadow Notes and The Fallen. She is a member the Norwalk Public Library board, and served as Norwalk’s Poet Laureate from April 2016 to April 2019.

Van Hartmann is Professor Emeritus of English at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. He received an A.B. in history from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals and he has published three books of poems: Shiva Dancing, Riptide and Afloat.  His chapbook, Between What Is and What Is Not was published in 2010. He lives in Norwalk with his wife, fellow writer and English professor, Laurel Peterson, and their aging Labrador retriever, Calder.