Poetry Readings and Tea

SAT June 8th from 2-4 PM at The East Hampton Library


Join us for readings by poets Vivian Eyre, Miranda Beeson and Anthony DiPietro. Vivian Eyre is the author of Ishmael’s Violets (Kelsay Books). Her poems have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Bellingham Review, J Journal, One Art, Pangyrus, Quiddity, Spire, The Ashville Poetry Review, The Fourth River and other literary journals. Her ekphrastic poems inspired by Neo Rauch’s “para” paintings, were included in the anthology, Neu Smoke (Black Square Editions. Off the Park Press). The “Brunch Poems” series, founded by Vivian in 2013, continues its monthly poetry discussions at Floyd Memorial Library (Greenport,NY). Vivian has served as guest curator for the Whale House at the Southold Historical Society Museum (Southold, NY) and as a cold stunned sea turtle rescue volunteer for NY Marine Rescue. Miranda Beeson is the author of Wildlife (Spuyten Duyvil), Ode to the Unexpected from novelist Peter Cameron’s Shrinking Violet Press, The Jones of It and Catch & Release, recent finalists for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. Her poems appear in numerous journals and anthologies including Barrow Street, The Southampton Review, The Best American Poetry, Typishly & Melville House’s Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets. Awards & Honors include Palette Poetry’s Spotlight Award, a Jody Donohue Poetry Prize, Chicagoland’s Poets & Patrons Sonnet Award, and the support of NYSCA for her writing programs. She has taught creative writing in school systems (K-12), at Stony Brook University, and leads a Sunday poetry jam called Poets4Poets. She received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton. Anthony DiPietro is an lgbqt poet and arts administrator originally from Providence, Rhode Island. He has lived throughout New England and in California, New York, Oregon, and Tennessee. A graduate of Brown University with honors in creative writing, he also earned a creative writing MFA at Stony Brook University. Now deputy director of Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. He composed his 2021 chapbook And Walk Through (Seven Kitchens Press) on a typewriter during the pandemic lockdowns. Kiss & Release is his debut collection. To Register: Call (631) 324- 0222 Ext. 3, Stop by the Adult Reference desk, or Visit www.eventbrite.com…Held in the Adult Reference area courtyard, weather permitting.

Author Talk and Book Signing: “Thomas North: The Original Author of Shakespeare’s Source Plays” by Dennis McCarthy


Join us and Dennis McCarthy as he talk about his new book “Thomas North: The Original Author of Shakespeare’s Source Plays”.Author and researcher Dennis McCarthy will provide an entertaining and dramatic look at a series of Shakespeare-related discoveries that have made the front page of The New York Times, Boston Globe Magazine (cover story), The (London) Times, The Guardian, and other media outlets throughout the world. He will also be reading from his latest book: “Thomas North: The Original Author of Shakespeare’s Source Plays.”About the author: McCarthy is best known as the “rogue scholar” who is the subject of New York Times bestselling author Michael Blanding’s In Shakespeare’s Shadow: A Rogue Scholar’s Quest to Reveal the True Source Behind the World’s Greatest Plays (Hachette Books, 2022). He has published two academic books with June Schlueter, Professor Emerita of English, Lafayette College, including Thomas North’s 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare (FDU Press, 2021). His first book, Here Be Dragons: How the study of animal and plant distributions revolutionized our views of life and Earth (Oxford University Press, 2009), introduced the subject of biogeography (the intersection of evolution and geography) to the general public. Science News described it as “fascinating and revelatory;” and Science Magazine declared, “we will never look at the world in the same way again.” McCarthy brought a scientific approach to Shakespeare studies to make discoveries that have surprised the world.To Register: Call (631) 324-0222 Ext. 3, Stop by the Adult Reference desk, or Visit www.eventbrite.com…


Saturday, June 29, 2024, 2 – 3:30 pm

Author Talk & Book Signing: Meri Wallace – “The Secret World of Children”

Children’s behavior can be baffling, terrifying, and utterly infuriating at times: from risky or rebellious behavior to explosive outbursts of rage. It’s easy for a parent to feel lost and hopeless about how to handle these situations. But fear not, for The Secret World of Children is here to guide you through the tumultuous journey of parenting.

In The Secret World of Children, Meri Wallace, LCSW reveals that nine hidden developmental issues cause your child’s challenging behaviors from infancy to adolescence: your child’s need for love, unquenchable curiosity, aggression, desire for independence, urgent wishes, impulsivity, limited concept of time, pursuit of pleasure, and fears and anxieties. You will learn effective tools to respond to these issues that will help you raise your children to feel loved.

Meri Wallace, LCSW, a parenting expert, and child and family therapist for over thirty years, writes a blog for Psychology Today and is the author of Birth Order Blues and Keys to Parenting Your Four-Year-Old. She has been a columnist for Sesame Street Parents Magazine, New York Family Magazine, and Brooklyn Parent. She has been a consultant to Children’s Television Workshop and has been interviewed by national magazines including Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Parents, and many more.
Meri Wallace appears regularly on podcasts, radio, and national television networks as a parenting expert. She has made repeated appearances on shows such as Eyewitness News, Good Day New York, WNBC, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, WPIX, the Hallmark Channel, and the Fox Family Channel. Meri worked with a producer at Eyewitness News designing parenting segments in which she appeared as the expert.


Saturday, June 22, 2024, 2 – 3:30pm

To Register: Call (631) 324-0222 Ext. 3, Stop by the Adult Reference Desk OR Visit Our Event Link at www.eventbrite.com…

Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: presented by G&S Light Opera Co of LI

‘Iolanthe’ Comes to East Hampton

Mortals and immortals come face to face in the Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island’s 2024 production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s classic Iolanthe, coming to the East Hampton Library on Saturday, May 4, at 2 p.m.

Iolanthe—which debuted in 1883, with book and lyrics by W.S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan—is one of the most beloved of all the Gilbert & Sullivan operas, especially for its perfect balance of words and music, humor and drama, magic and political satire.  The current production is the Light Opera Company’s first since 2015.

The story is a whimsical one, involving a shepherd lad named Strephon, who has the unusual problem of being half fairy and half mortal … his mother was a fairy, his unknown father a mortal, and he’s a fairy down to the waist, though his legs are mortal.  When Strephon falls in love with Phyllis, a wealthy heiress who is a ward in chancery and sought after in marriage by half the House of Lords, it sets up a conflict between the wily Lord Chancellor and the cosmically powerful Fairy Queen, with the Queen’s band of fairies, the lovestruck Peers and Strephon and Phyllis themselves caught in between.

The dramatic side of the story involves Strephon’s mother, Iolanthe, who was sentenced to death for marrying a mortal, then reprieved at the last moment and banished from the fairy world.  Her greatest concern is for her son, and when the Lord Chancellor himself falls in love with Phyllis, Iolanthe faces a dilemma that may spell the end of her immortal life.

In the new production of the opera, Kara Vertucci of Lindenhurst plays Phyllis and Henry Horstmann of Lindenhurst plays Strephon, with Traci Weisberg Gang of Rego Park playing Iolanthe.  Chris Jurak of Brightwaters is the Lord Chancellor, with Kenneth Kopolovicz of East Islip and Richard Risi of Locust Valley playing, respectively, Lord Mountararat and Lord Tolloller.  Ben Salers of Northport plays Private Willis, with Delaney R. Page as the Fairy Queen.  Farah Chandu of Oakland Gardens plays Leila, Rebecca Rutkovsky of Manhasset play Celia and Hanna Roth of Upper Brookville plays Fleta.  The director is Gayden Wren, and the music directors are Isabella Eredita Johnson and David Bernard.

 The humble shepherd Strephon (Henry Horstmann) has fallen in love with wealthy heiress Phyllis (Kara Vertucci), but she’s a ward in chancery and his chances of winning her seem slim in a scene from the Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island’s 2024 production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe.  (Photo by NanMagna.  Copyright 2024 The Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island.)

Sat May 4th at 2 PM
register by calling (631) 324-0222 ext.3 or email reference@easthamptonlibrary.org
or register at Eventbrite 
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Celebrated Jazz Singer Joy Jan Jones, FREE concert performance @ The East Hampton Library


Joy, who has received numerous awards, will sing a number of well-known jazz standards, accompanied by her band, The Fiancés, which includes Bobby Peterson – Keys; Tom Khiloury – Guitar; Mike Pitocchi – String Bass; and Fitzy – Percussion. As a recording artist and songwriter, Joy has earned studio credits since the age of 12. In addition to performing, Joy has found time to serve as Associate Music Director and Principal Cantor at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. She earned a bachelor of music degree in performance from Sam Houston University and a master of music degree in performance from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. Some of her roles to date include: “Marenka” in The Bartered Bride, “Eurydice” in Orpheus and the Underworld, “Fiordiligi” in Così fan tutte, and “Christine Daaé” in Phantom of the Opera.
The concert is Free and open to the public. May 10th Friday
6 PM
East Hampton Library
Baldwin Roomregister at Eventbrite link below
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New York Safe Boating Course

Course held over 2 nights Tuesday, 6/11 and Thursday, 6/13 from 6 PM to 10 PM.

This 8 hour course is an introduction to the basic principles of safe and responsible boating. Students successfully completing this course earn a safe boating certificate. Must be at least 10 years old to participate.

To help ensure New York’s waterways remain safe and enjoyable, this course teaches basic boating skills and encourages common sense and courtesy to all who share the water. Topics covered include rules of the nautical road, required safety equipment, special boating related activities and many more.

All registrants for this event must be 10 years of age by June 11th, 2024. Students must be 10 years old at the start of the course. If you are 18 years of age or older, there is a $10.00 fee for your permanent boating safety certificate, payable to New York State Parks. This is in addition to any course fees paid directly to your instructor. NYS Parks does not collect a certificate fee for students under the age of 18, but there may be a course fee charged by the instructor.

Payment collected at the first class session. Must attend both sessions.

To Register: Call (631) 324-0222 Ext. 3, Stop by the Adult Reference desk, or Visit www.eventbrite.com…

Author Talk: Inside-Out: Intimate Voices by Irene Cairo


This collection of seven short stories interweaves humor, irony, tenderness, and pain to reveal the “inside out” of human beings—the parts seen and unseen, consciously revealed and unconsciously hidden that make us all complex characters. About Irene Cairo: A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Irene Cairo received her medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. She is a member, training and supervising analyst, and faculty member of the Contemporary Freudian Society and a faculty member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where she received her training in psychoanalysis. Her publications in the field of psychoanalysis include “My Colleague, That Other” in Psychoanalytic Dialogues (Vol. 20, 2010); “To Make the Best of a Bad Job” in The Bion Tradition, eds. H. Levine and G. Civitarese (Routledge, 2015); “The Place Across the Street” in Immigration in Psychoanalysis, Locating Ourselves, ed. J. Beltsiou (Routledge, 2016); and “Babette, Interrupted” in Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide, eds. P.L. Ellman and N.R. Goodman (Routledge, 2017). Inside-Out: Intimate Voices (IPBooks, 2022), a short story collection, is her first work of fiction. Irene has chaired discussion groups and workshops at the biannual meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association and has served as the North American Chair of the Ethics Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association. She resides in East Hampton.

To Register: Call (631) 324-0222 Ext. 3, Stop by the Adult Reference desk, or Visit www.eventbrite.com…

Solar Eclipse Viewing Party, on Library Lawn April 8th at 2 PM


Join us on the library lawn, Monday April 8th at 2 PM for this astronomical viewing event. Free Solar Eclipse glasses will be handed out Monday 4/8 at 2 PM while supplies last. There will be games and light refreshments.