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MCLS Book Festival: Keynote Speaker Alicia Ostriker, Lawrence Library

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Saturday September 27, 2025
12:00 PM

Lawrence Headquarters Branch 2751 Brunswick Pike Lawrenceville, NJ 08648   609-883-8292

Join us for a rare opportunity to hear acclaimed poet and scholar Alicia Ostriker at the inaugural MCLS Book Festival. With 19 poetry collections to her name—including her latest, The Holy and Broken Bliss: Poems in Plague Time—Ostriker brings a voice both urgent and timeless. Twice nominated for the National Book Award and a former New York State Poet Laureate, she will read from her new work and sign books following the presentation. Don’t miss this profound literary moment with one of America’s most resonant poetic voices. Registration is requested.