An Evening with Poet Erika Nichols-Frazer
Tuesday, April 16th at 6:30 PM in the SAL Room.
Celebrate National Poetry Month by joining the Waterbury Public Library for an evening of poetry from Waitsfield author and poet Erika Nichols-Frazer!
Nichols-Frazer penned the poetry collection Staring Too Closely (Main Street Rag, 2023) which explores themes of healing from trauma, both personal and collective and tries to make sense of a maddening world. The collection invites its readers to look more closely at themselves and the world around them.
Erika will read from her collection, answer your questions, and discuss poetry from the perspective of both poet and editor.
Nichols-Frazer is the author of the memoir Feed Me: A Story of Food, Love and Mental Illness (Casper Press, 2022), a story about a young woman’s journey to save herself; a story about sustenance and the ways in which we feed ourselves and each other. She is also the editor of the Poetry Society of Vermont’s literary magazine, The Mountain Troubadour and edited the mental health recovery anthology A Tether to This World (Main Street Rag, 2021). More than thirty of her poems, essays, and short stories have been published in journals such as HuffPost, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, Emerge Literary Journal, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is the Writing & Humanities Coordinator at Vermont State University Johnson. She is also on the board of the Green Mountain Book Festival.