The Silver City Public Library will host a poetry reading with the Silver City / Grant County Poets Laureate on Tuesday, August 28, 4:30 p.m. The Poets Laureate, serving a two-year term that began in May 2017, are Jack Crocker and Beate Sigriddaughter.

Jack Crocker's poems have appeared in a variety of journals, and his latest collection, The Last Resort, was published in 2009 by the Texas Review Press. Crocker is also a musician. He once signed a recording and songwriting contract with Fretone Records in Memphis, but decided instead to become an English professor. Currently, he is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Western New Mexico University.

Beate Sigriddaughter, originally from Germany, has published dozens of poems and short stories as well as novels. Her most recent published works are Audrey: A Book of Love and Xanthippe and Her Friends. Sigriddaughter has a website, Writing In A Woman's Voice (writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com), which publishes novice and experienced women writers.

Asked about her background, Sigriddaughter says, "I grew up in Nuremberg, Germany, playing in the nearby castle grounds and/or World War II ruins and have never quite gotten over the contrast. I love words, poems, stories, as well as dance, and somehow (long life, long story) I got to be one of Silver City's poets laureate." For more information about Beate Sigriddaughter, visit sigriddaughter.com.

For more information about library events, see silvercitypubliclibrary.org or contact Lillian at 575-538-3672 or ref@silvercitymail.com. The Silver City Public Library is located at 515 W. College Avenue at the corner of College and Cooper Street in Silver City.