Homer Public Library

✨TOMORROW NIGHT✨ at the library! Join us at the library to hear poems from "Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War" read by featured authors as well as other local voices including: Anne Coray (co-editor), Nancy Lord, Tom Kizzia, Gretchen Diemer, Michael Lemay, and Samantha Cunningham.
Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 6-7pm

Poetry Reading at the Homer Public Library Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 6-7pm
Join us at the library to hear poems from "Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War" read by featured authors as well as other local voices including: Anne Coray (co-editor), Nancy Lord, Tom Kizzia, Gretchen Diemer, Michael Lemay, and Samantha Cunningham.

"Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War" offers a groundbreaking and vital perspective on war’s destruction of the natural world—the creatures, plants, soil, water, and atmosphere of Earth. In poems and contextual comments, 61 contemporary poets focus on military damages to the ecosystems on six continents and the moon.

Book Review: Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War from the Homer Independent Press: https://homerindependentpress.com/2026/04/16/book-review-convergence-poetry-on-environmental-impacts-of-war/

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✨NEXT WEEK✨ at the library! Join us at the library with Alaskan author Eowyn Ivey as she shares insights from her latest novel! "Black Woods, Blue Sky" is a suspenseful novel with life-and-death stakes about the love between a mother and daughter, and about the lure of a wild life—about what we gain and what it might cost us.

Thursday, April 23rd | 6:00 - 7:00 PM | Fireside Reading Lounge

Eowyn Ivey is coming to Homer!

Join us at the Homer Public Library on April 23, 6-7 pm with author Eowyn Ivey as she shares insights from her latest book, "Black Woods, Blue Sky," a suspenseful novel with life-and-death stakes about the love between a mother and daughter, and about the lure of a wild life—about what we gain and what it might cost us.

Lifelong Alaskan Eowyn Ivey is the author of the Pulitzer finalist and New York Times bestseller "The Snow Child" and most recently the national bestseller "Black Woods, Blue Sky." Her critically acclaimed novels have been translated into more than 25 languages. She lives with her husband in the Matanuska Valley.

Books will be available for purchase at the event through the Homer Bookstore and are available for check out at the library.