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Author Event | Ellen Stone: Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them

When

Wednesday April 9, 2025: 6:30pm to 7:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: 4th Floor Program Room

Description

Poetry gathers our lives, containing everything we hold inside. Local poet Ellen Stone will read excerpts from her new book Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them. She will be joined by two other local poets, Monica Rico and Ashwini Bhasi. There will be a Q&A session following the reading.

Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them is a collection of poems exploring what women hold, what they keep, and how they let go— of sorrow, loss and grief. Using the natural world as buffer, Ellen Stone writes poems exploring motherhood and mental illness, sexual assault, marriage and parenthood—as well as how loss filters down through family generations. The poems investigate daughters leaving home while trying to carry home within them. The moon is the mother in the book, waxing and waning, but always there, always coming back around.  

This event includes a signing with books for sale.

Comments

Submitted by emilyb308 on Tue, 04/15/2025 - 9:30pm

Thank you AADL for providing this livestream! I had planned to attend in person but, due to poorly timed illness, was unable to make it on the day. I’m so grateful I was able to watch the event afterwards! These poems were vivid and beautiful and so deeply moving. I feel like I come away from listening to them with a powerful sense of connection and insight.