Annual Candlelight Winter Solstice

Date: 
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Event Description: 
To Know the Dark
Poetry Reading

 

Tickets: Free event. Seating very limited. Reservations required.

 

This annual solstice event is absolutely magical! Poets are invited to come read their own poems or other poets’ work by candlelight on the theme of Wendell Berry's poem, “To Know the Dark.” Interested in participating? Contact the bookstore: 415-663-1542 or email books@ptreyesbooks.com.

"To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings."

                                           —Wendell Berry

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