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 Meeting 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.

The Library intends to provide a live stream of this event pending the presenter's permission. Please check back closer to the event for additional updates.