EFFINGHAM — Effingham Public Library, located at 30 Townhouse Road in Effingham, will be presenting Wolfeboro poet Bob Demaree and writer Olga Morrill as the summer season of writers’ night continues Thursday, Aug. 17, at 7 p.m.
The featured performers will be followed by an open mic session (five-minute limit) for poets, writers, musicians or storytellers to share their work. The program is free and open to the public and the meeting room is air conditioned.
Demaree will read poems from his new collection “Other Ladders.” Demaree is the author of four book-length collections of poems, including “After Labor Day.” He is a retired school administrator whose work has appeared in over 150 periodicals, including The Louisville Review, The Chaffin Review and miller’s pond.
“Other Ladders” contains poems set in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire and elsewhere, places Demaree describes as “the geography of experience, the regions of the heart.” His work has received awards and recognition in poetry competitions sponsored by the Poetry Society of New Hampshire, the Burlington (N.C.) Writers Club and the libraries of Conway and Farmington. Copies of his book will be available. Demaree lives on Rust Pond in Wolfeboro and in Burlington, N.C.
Morrill trained in theater arts at the Drama Studio in West Ealing, London, England in 1971. She spent 18 years acting, directing, and producing summer stock and community theater in the Mount Washington Valley before starting a new career as a librarian in 1990. She worked at the Conway Public Library in public relations and programming for children and adults until retiring in 2014.
She created “The Library Connection,” a weekly column featured in The Conway Daily Sun, wrote hundreds of press releases and grant proposals, initiated the White Mountain Writers Group, and published an anthology of short stories and poetry by participants called “The Literary Tourist,” which included two of her own pieces.
As a storyteller, she adapted classics and wrote original stories, performing at area schools and local venues as well as the annual NH State Storytelling Conference and the New England Storytelling Festival “Sharing the Fire.” “Vagabond Quakers,” her first full-length novel, was inspired by a prompt to write a piece of historical fiction for the writers group. She lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with her husband, Steve Morrill.
Writers’ night, the third Thursday of the month is for those who write — music, poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction — and for those who enjoy listening. There will be light refreshments.
For more information, contact Katie McCarth at (603) 651-9796 or call the library at (603) 539-1537. The library is closed during the day on Thursday.
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