An Evening with Robin Walter and Dan Beachy-Quick

Date and Time

• Saturday, Apr 12, 2025  7pm - 8pm

Location

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Details

Join us at the newly renovated Center for Creativity in Old Town Fort Collins as we celebrate Robin Walters' latest poetry release, Little Mercy. Walters will be joined by Dan Beachy-Quick to discuss the book and converse with the audience before signing. This event will take place April 12th at the Center for Creativity at 7:00pm.

Books can be purchased beforehand or at the event, but we ask that you wait until the end to request personalization.

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Book Info Below:

In award-winning poet Robin Walter's debut collection, Little Mercy, writing and looking--seeing feelingly--become a practice in radical care. These poems pursue moments of shared recognition, when looking up to see a deer across a stream, or when sunlight passes through wingtip onto palm, the self found in other, the river in vein of wrist. Attuned to the transparent beauty in the natural world, Walter's poems are often glancing observations unspooling down the page, their delicacies belying their powers of profound knowing. The formal logic of this work is the intricate architecture of a nest. Each line becomes a blade of grass, each dash a little twig, each parenthesis a small feather-all woven together deliberately, seemingly fragile but held fast with surprising strength. In their lyric variations, repetitions, and fragments, employed toward a deep attention to wren, river, and reflection, the human almost falls away entirely, a steady and steadying state of being that is unconscious, expansive. Written out of a broken landscape in a broken time, Little Mercy is a book of gratitude, one that draws our inner selves to the present and living world, to the ways we can break and mend.

Robin Walter is a poet, book artist, and printmaker. Her writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, West Branch, and elsewhere. She teaches at Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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