Buxton Books is proud to welcome Libby Bernardin in the store for a launch party celebrating her latest work, House in Need of Mooring. On Sunday, October 2, Libby will be at Buxton reading a selection from this fantastic new collection, taking questions from the audience, and personalizing copies of the book.
Come share some refreshments and celebrate Libby and her poetry with us!
This is a FREE, in-store event. Doors open at 3:30 pm with the poetry reading to begin at 4:00 pm.
About Libby Bernardin:
Bernardin is a South Carolina poet whose chapbook, The Book of Myth was one of six winners in the South Carolina Poetry Initiative chapbook contest. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including Southern Poetry Review, The South Carolina Poetry Society Yearbook, Cairn, and Kakalak. Bernardin has given many readings and taught workshops in poetry, fiction and journalism. Until accepting a full-time faculty position at the University of South Carolina, she served for a number of years on the arts-in-the-schools roster. She studied at the Haden Dream Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina, learning about dreams, symbols and mythology, which became a strong influence in her work. Bernardin is retired from teaching English at the University of South Carolina and is a Lifetime Member on the Board of Governors for the South Carolina Academy of Authors.
About House In Need of Mooring:
Libby completed most of the poems in House in Need of Mooring during the pandemic year, hoping to explore optimistic ideas, so that in reading them people might find pleasure instead of sorrow in a year of so much sadness. At the same time, she wanted more complexity, deeper philosophical emotions, and ideas. She sensed these poems, not sure of what they were telling her. They represent a need to create some sense of normalcy, moments of joy, as well as striving toward recognizing the need to demonstrate fairness and equality. So, Libby turned to her sea, her marsh, her habitat to write of her journey, finding purpose in memory and celebration of spirit.