Ridgefield resident Ira Joe Fisher will be featured in a New Milford poetry presentation.
The Silo gallery and store will present Voices of Poetry/On the Farm on Sunday, May 4, at 2 p.m. The afternoon of poetry and music will be held at Hunt Hill Farm, 44 Upland Road, New Milford. An artists meet-and-greet will follow the program.
Mr. Fisher was awarded two regional Emmys for television writing. His poetry has appeared in Poetry New York, The Alembic, The New York Quarterly, Entelechy International, Diner, Ridgefield Magazine, and the anthology Confrontation. He is the author of Remembering Rew, a poetry chapbook, and two full-length collections of verse, Some Holy Weight in the Village Air and Songs From an Earlier Century.
Other poets include Cheryl Moskowitz, Dimitri Rimsky and Elizabeth Thomas. In addition, singers and cabaret performers Sari Max and Nancy Winston will appear.
The program is free but reservations are encouraged. For more information and to reserve tickets, visit hunthillfarmtrust.org, call 860-355-0300 or email info@hunthillfarmtrust.org. Reservations may also be made at The Silo during regular business hours Wednesday through Saturday from 10 to 5 and Sunday from noon to 5.