
Rootstock Poets Read for PoemCity Program
Scudder Parker, author of Safe as Lightning; Effie Zimet, author of The Lost Grip; Toussaint St. Negritude, author of Mountain Spells; Kim Ward, author of Fire on a Circle; Joyce Thomas, author of Some Things in This World; and Nadine Budbill reading from Davd Budbill's new edition of Judevine.

Budbill’s Judevine Launch with Abby Paige
Celebrate the launch and return to Judevine: A Love Song for a Place and Its People, David Budbill’s work about the beloved fictional community. This new and revised edition includes introductions by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins, world-renowned musician and composer William Parker, and Lost Nation Theater Founding Director Kim Bent.
Nadine Budbill, David’s daughter, will be in conversation with actress and playwright Abby Paige, who has acted in Judevine and other Budbill plays. Paige’s first book, Piecework / Travail à la pièce, is a bilingual collection of her two plays about the Franco American experience. Both books will be available for signing and purchase.