Poetry reading and music at Baby Grand Books on Nov. 18

Warwick - The fourth free poetry reading in a fall series at Baby Grand Books at 7 West St., Warwick, on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 4 p.m. J. R. Solonche and Michael Sciarretta will read, and folk/blues guitarist Eric Karlin will play before the reading and during intermission. Refreshments will be provided. Solonche teaches at Orange County Community College. He is co-author (with his wife Joan Siegel) of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). His poems have appeared in The New Criterion, The American Scholar, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Poetry Northwest, Yankee Magazine, and other journals. His work has been included in the anthologies Visiting Frost, Blood Mixed Voices, Blood to Remember, and The Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry. Sciarretta’s poetry has appeared several small magazines including Fertile Ground & Full Time Dads. He began writing poetry for the sound of the language, “the click of the consonants and bell tones of the vowels.” Now he writes also for the places that poetry takes one, “the other places.” He is a husband, father and social worker and lives in Warwick. The remaining reading is on Dec. 2: Performance poetry of Shotsie Gorman and Janet Hamill with music by Jay LoRubbio and Greg Feller. The reading is part of a series on every other Saturday. For more information, call 986-6165.