A Grain of Sand in Lambeth + The Strange and Wondrous Works of Eleanor

The poets will read from their respective books and then have a conversation and Q&A

Help us celebrate the release of two new books by Rochester-area poets Geoffery Babbitt and Kathryn Cowles, special guests at our 2025 Poetry Festival in the Highland Park Bowl.

In A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, poetry becomes a lens through which to explore the complex, visionary world of William Blake. Drawing on Blake’s own rejection of tradition and his relentless quest to challenge the boundaries of art, Geoffrey Babbitt confronts the tensions between genius and convention, life and death, light and dark.

Selected for the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Series Prize, The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor is Kathryn Cowles’ deliciously innovative third book. Eleanor lays bare the depths of the confines still facing women in Western life, even while we’re told we’re free to choose. She affixes wings to feminine figures cut out of magazines, asks, is there a way beyond? A way to real freedom, to a femininity that looks and acts however we choose?

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