Betty Ponder, Odd Sundays

Poetry reading: Betty Ponder featured at odd sundays at molly’s, Fredericton’s longest running semimonthly poetry reading series. (New Brunswick, the poetry province !)

Sunday, February 18, 2007, 2pm
Molly’s Coffee House
554 Queen Street, Fredericton

Betty Ponder, featured reader at odd sundays at molly’s: She is daughter, sister, wife, mother, researcher, painter, healer, caregiver, author, grandmother, gardener, friend, giver of life, and she has written a book. Betty Ponder will tell you that Little Sparrows Fall is simply the story of her family which she is giving to her children and grandchildren who may not know yet which questions to ask. Ponder’s clarity of voice and tender respect for the family that surrounds her, reveal a great courage coursing through the generations that pivot around this remarkable woman. She writes of struggle, and sickness and death—and irrepressible hope. With this book, Ponder has created a palm’s worth of amber—delicate, poignant, and worth holding onto forever.

Open Set: Bring lyrics, drama, fiction, drama, or music, to present in the open set. If it is created from words, we want it.

Please join us at 2 pm on Sunday, February 18, at Molly’s Coffee House, for an afternoon engaged with literature. For information: acalvern@nbnet.nb.ca or 459-1436. (Just say yes to poetry.)