Join Mark Hart, Colfax native, award-winning poet and author
of “Boy Singing to Cattle” on Saturday, July 12 from 1-3 p.m. in the Colfax
Library. Hart will read from his work, sign copies of the book and undoubtedly
revisit his Colfax roots as he is also in town for his 40th high
school reunion.
In eloquently describing “Boy Singing to Cattle,” Andrea
Carter Brown says the book is “at once a moving elegy for a lost parent, a
portrait of a way of life, and of the landscape and community tied to it, and a
reconciliation with that past. It is remarkable for its wisdom, for the
generosity of its spirit. These poems continue to haunt me—in their grittiness,
their loveliness, their eloquence; for the heart which informs every poem. Boy
Singing to Cattle renews and refreshes the tradition of poetry about the land
and those who live from it in ways I would not have thought possible in the
21st century.”
Mark D. Hart, born on Valentine’s Day in 1956, grew up on a
wheat farm in the Palouse region of eastern Washington State. He now lives in western Massachusetts, where
he is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in private practice, the guiding
teacher for the Bodhisara Dharma Community, on the teaching staff of Insight
Meditation Center of the Pioneer Valley, and a religious advisor at Amherst
College. He holds a masters degree in
counseling from Seattle University and a doctorate in theology from Boston
College and has taught religious studies at both Seattle University and Smith
College. He began writing poetry in 2003
after the death of his father. Since
then his work has appeared in Atlanta Review, RATTLE, Poetry East, Margie, The
Midwest Quarterly, Tar River Poetry, The Spoon River Poetry Review and numerous
other journals. Boy Singing to Cattle is
his first book of poetry and winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize and was one of
six finalists for the 2014 Massachusetts Book Award
For more information, contact Whitman County Library at
509-397-4366.
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