Great Neck Library is hosting an author event with Carolyn Raphael, author of “Travelers on My Route,” on Monday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. at the Great Neck Library community room, 159 Bayview Avenue in Great Neck.
“There still is time for laughter,” declares Cosimo I de’ Medici at the end of the poem Water Games, even though he has just enumerated unbearable losses that have befallen him. This pronouncement might as well be the motto of “Travelers on My Route,” a book that celebrates life despite trauma and tragedy, ravages of aging and illness. Resignation is never the answer. Instead, Carolyn Raphael always finds reasons for joie de vivre, while acknowledging the cycle of blossoming and decay…This is a wise and invigorating collection and a thrilling testament to the human spirit.”
— Review by Anton Yakovlev
Carolyn Raphael retired from the English Department at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, after more than thirty years of teaching.
Her poems have appeared in journals including The Lyric, Measure, Oberon, Blue Unicorn, Long Island Quarterly, and on the Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies website for the American Arts Quarterly, where her poem, Honorable Mention, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Carolyn is also the poetry coordinator of Great Neck Plaza, where she oversees the annual Poetry Contest and directs “Poetry in the Plaza,” which places poems on local bulletin boards.
No registration is required. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
For more information, please contact the Great Neck Library at (516) 466-8055 or email adultprogramming@greatnecklibrary.org.
