Please join us for a lively hour-and-a-quarter combined reading and workshop when local poet and craft teacher, Barbara Regenspan, author of The Chessmaster’s Daughter, (2022 Cayuga Lake Books) shares her strategies for “Writing Light in Dark Times.” After a brief reading from her new chapbook-in-progress, Barbara will lead a voluntary free-write inspired by poets’ recognition of the emotional tension evoked by our desire to experience joy in the ordinary oddities of everyday life without marginalizing the horrors of contemporary global social and environmental devastation. Participants will be invited to read aloud their drafts if they choose to do so.