Poetry Reading and Book Signing

Join us for a poetry reading and book signing with Elizabeth Weaver-Kreider and Kara Valore! Poetry readings will start at 6:15pm, with book signing and conversation after. The shop will be open during this event!

The Heretic’s Book of Prayer, by Elizabeth Weaver-Kreider, is a Fool’s Tale, a journey story of transformation and self-naming, told in poetry. It follows the Mysteries of the Rosary: Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious. At the beginning, the winsome Fool sets out on a journey, eager for adventure. The tone changes as she faces accusation and inquisition and exile, losing the thread of her own story. In the last third of the book, she sets off again, this time determined to live on her own terms, choosing her own name and the identity of heretic rather than clipping her wings to fit into patriarchal and religious institutional boxes. These poems are full of reverence and rage, trauma and hope, resilience and fierce love.

Kara Valore is the author of Where the Compass Points (I. Giraffe Press). Kara’s work has appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY, Bards Against Hunger Pennsylvania Anthology, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, GrassLimb, Skinny Poetry Journal, and others. Kara’s earlier poetry has appeared in regional publications such as Pennsylvania Poetry Society anthologies as well as Yorkfest Literary Competitions in her hometown of York, Pennsylvania where she currently resides. Suzanne Craig-Whytock, Editor-in Chief of DarkWinter Literary Magazine, says of Where the Compass Points: “Kara Valore takes the reader on a compelling journey with hope and healing as a destination.”