Join local poet Linda McCauley Freeman as she reads from her second book THE MARRIAGE MANUAL

The Marriage Manual is an intense poetic journey through two marriages, and the lessons the narrator learns about the myth of happily ever after. Relying on both narrative and lyrical sequences, as well as haiku-like explorations, the book takes the reader through the emotional geography of married love and the ever-repeating cycle of romantic love, hope, disappointment, despair, fear, joy and, finally, mature love. 

“Read The Marriage Manual and enter love in all its incarnations.”
–Darcy Smith, author of River Skin 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Linda McCauley Freeman is the author of the full-length poetry collections The Marriage Manual (BWP, 2024) and The Family Plot: Poems (Backroom Window Press, 2022) and has been widely published in international journals, including in a Chinese translation. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been the featured U.S. poet in The Poet Magazine and won Grand Prize in StoriArts’ Maya Angelou poetry contest. Lines from her poem Made in America were selected by Kwame Alexander to use in his Civil Community Poem and are on display at the Civil Rights Memorial Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. She has an MFA from Bennington College and is the former poet-in-residence of the Putnam Arts Council. She lives in Marlboro, NY, where she is a swing dance teacher and a yoga instructor. Follow her at www.LindaMcCauleyFreeman.com, Facebook@LindaMcCauleyFreeman and Twitter@LindaMccFreeman

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