Kerrytown BookFest
Each year on the first Sunday after Labor Day the Kerrytown BookFest holds it annual book festival at the City Market in downtown Ann Arbor. In 20014, its 12th year, the BookFest will be held September 7 and will attract thousands of book lovers to this wonderful outdoor venue which is held under the covered market and in tents to keep books, authors, illustrators and book lovers dry.
The theme of this year’s BookFest is “The Art of the Book” and features panel discussions featuring more than 40 authors and illustrators including three Caldecott-winning children’s book artists. Add to that 100 vendors selling book and paper items and this free event is perhaps the most unique in the country. For more information www.kerrytownbookfest.org
This poem is by David Pink, a friend of the BookFest, and strikes at the essence of why books are so important in our culture.
David Pink’s poetry, fiction and nonfiction has appeared in publications such as Dakota Territory, Green Mountains Review, American Literary Review, Western Humanities Review, California Quarterly, Solo, Salmagundi, Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, Pemmican, Aluminum Canoe, Poetry Motel, Art Paper, Minnesota Monthly, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, North Coast Review, and The Nebraska English Journal. He has received grants, awards, and prizes from The Loft-McKnight Foundation, The Edelstein-Keller Fund, The Academy of American Poets, The Roerich Museum, The Lake Superior Writers Association, Minnesota Monthly, The Lakes Region Arts Council, and The North Dakota Humanities Council.
A Book
A book is a look
Inside another soul.
No telling where
It might take you to
But follow,
Go where it goes
And see if you
Can come back
Knowing what it knows,
