FRANCES RICHEY
Thursday, May 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Co-presented with HEDGEBROOK. The month of May encompasses Memorial Day. At both ends of the month (also see Mary Tillman, May 27), we present authors who are mothers of children who, as soldiers, died in the conflicts going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. Frances Richey is an established poet (a 2004 collection, The Burning Point, received the White Pine Poetry Prize) who has used the form to powerful ends in her compelling new book, The Warrior (A Mother's Story of a Son at War) (Viking). "War and propaganda generalize. Love and poetry specify. In the specific ways this poet-mother refuses to lose touch with a warrior son, there is a lifeline across a deadly chasm for every reader." – Gloria Steinem. "No one feels war's jumbled pride and anguish like the mothers and wives of the warriors. We'd find a way to make peace if Frances Richey and Lysistrata were calling the shots. The Warrior is a lyrical, moving collection, full of insight and devoid of easy answers." – Nathaniel Fick.

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