New Dominion Bookshop will host a reading with poets Sharon Perkins Ackerman and William Prindle on Aug. 29 at 7 p.m.
Ackerman will be reading from her new collection, A Legacy of Birds, and Prindle will be reading from his new collection, Medicine Cache Under Lichen.
This event is co-sponsored by WriterHouse and is free to attend and open to the public.
Ackerman is an Appalachian poet who received her MEd from UVA and lives in Stony Point. Her poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Appalachian Places, Salvation South, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Roanoke Review and others. She is the winner of the 2019 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and her second poetry collection, A Legacy of Birds, was short-listed for the Arthur Smith Poetry Prize in 2024. Sharon is also the poetry editor for Streetlight Magazine.
Prindle is a poet deepening his voice in the third half of life. His poetry explores the seams between the human and non-human worlds. From forest wanderings, surviving today’s America and practicing restorative agriculture, his poetry is both personal and collective, introspective and prophetic, reminiscent and present. His 2025 poetry collection Medicine Cache Under Lichen is being published by Finishing Line Press. Prindle hosts the Charlottesville Live Poets Society, has won multiple Poetry Society of Virginia awards and has been published in several journals and anthologies.
New Dominion Bookshop is located on the Downtown Mall at 404 E. Main St.in Charlottesville.
For more information, visit ndbookshop.com.
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