Poetry Writing Workshop with Peg Boyers at Hill-Stead Museum

Peg Boyers was born in Venezuela but lived her childhood and adolescent years in Italy, Spain, Cuba, Nigeria, Indonesia and Libya before settling in the United States. Descended from an Irishman and a Cuban whose Catalan origins were very likely originally Jewish, she insists with Whitman, that identity is multitudinous.  Her three books of poetry, HARD BREAD (2002), HONEY WITH TOBACCO (2007), and TO FORGET VENICE (2014) are written from the perspective of a very complicated, layered consciousness. She teaches poetry workshops at Skidmore College, the New York State Summer Writers Institute and Columbia University and edits, with her husband, the journal,SALMAGUNDI.