The Harrison Public Library will be welcoming two special guests this summer for our Adult and Teen Summer Reading Program – award-winning, Young Adult author Stacey Lee and Westchester County’s inaugural Poet Laureate B.K. Fischer. Their works highlight our summer reading theme this year — “Reading Colors Your World.”
It is our pleasure to introduce Stacey Lee as this year’s Summer Reading Ambassador. Lee is a fourth-generation Chinese American writer of Young Adult fiction and historical fiction and founding member of “We Need Diverse Books.”
Born in Southern California, she graduated from UCLA and received her law degree at UC Davis King Hall before turning to writing full time. Her novels include Under a Painted Sky, The Downstairs Girl, and the newly released Luck of the Titanic. Lee will be discussing her latest book with the library via Zoom on Wednesday, June 23 at 7 pm ET. In addition, Lee will be hosting two other virtual programs over the summer.
B.K. Fischer is the author of five books of poetry — Ceive, Radioapocrypha, My Lover’s Discourse, St. Rage’s Vault, and Mutiny Gallery — as well as a critical study, Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, FIELD, Literary Mama, and other journals. Fischer has been a teacher of poetry for more than 25 years in universities, schools, prisons, and community centers, including The Hudson Valley Writers Center, the Taconic Correctional Facility, the Neuberger Museum, Teacher’s and Writer’s Collaborative, and Brenda Connor-Bey’s “Learning to See” series at the Greenburgh Library. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and previously spent six years as poetry editor at the Boston Review.
We are honored to announce that B.K. Fischer will be reading her poems during “A Virtual Spoken Word: Night of Poetry’’ on Wednesday, July 14 at 7 pm ET This program is open to any community member who wishes to share poems and short works with us. We invite families and neighbors to join us for these engaging programs.
Register at https://www.harrisonpl.org/events/harrison/1781
