Join us for an evening with poets Brian Brodeur, Julie Danho O’Connell, and David O’Connell, who will each read from his or her own work, engage with a work from the Athenaeum’s collection, and pay tribute to the late C.D. Wright, a celebrated, award-winning poet and beloved teacher of poetry, who generously served as the distinguished poet judge for the Philbrick Poetry Celebration in 1999. The Philbrick Poetry Project is named for long-time Athenaeum members Charles Philbrick, a noted poet, and his wife Deborah, a mentor to many poets, and fosters the art of poetry in RI and New England.