Caffe Lena Poetry Featuring Darcy Smith

The first Wednesday of every month is Poetry Night at Caffe Lena. Hosted by Carol Graser, this event includes an open mic reading and a featured poet. The doors open for signups at 6:30 and the readings start at 7PM. On May 1 the featured poet is Darcy Smith. The featured reading will also be live streamed, please visit caffelena.org for links and information.

Darcy Smith’s debut collection, River Skin, Fernwood Press June 2022, was a semifinalist for the Hillary Gravendyk Prize. Recent poems appear and are forthcoming in River Heron Review, Silver Birch Press, After Happy Hour, Metonym, and Songs Of Eretz. Awards include the Please See Me Mental Health Poetry Prize and the Medmic Poetry Prize. She is a Certified Sign Language Interpreter, Buddhist, kickboxer, wife, and mother. Smith lives with her husband and their cat, Miley, in New York’s Hudson Valley. For more information visit: www.darcysmith.org