NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- bThe New Smyrna Beach Regional Library’s "Live in the Library" series
will focus on literature with presentations by Florida authors at 2 p.m. every Sunday in March.
Local poet Kelle Groom will present her new poetry collection, “Five Kingdoms,” March 7. Groom also wrote “Underwater City” and “Luckily,” winner of a Florida Book Award. Her poetry has appeared in the “The New Yorker,” “Ploughshares” and “Poetry” and will be featured in “Best American Poetry 2010.”
Florida author Charlie Carlson will visit the library March 14. He is the author of “Weird Florida” and “Strange Florida” and is the star of a one-hour PBS show titled “Weird Florida: Roads less traveled.”
On March 21, local author Kate Cumiskey will discuss her new book, “Surfing in New Smyrna Beach,” which illustrates how the city “has fostered more world-class surfers than any other on earth.”
Mary Clay, local author of the DAFFODILS (Divorced And Finally Free ofDeceitful, Insensitive, Licentious Scum) mystery series, will speak about self-publishing March 28. Clay is working on a fourth DAFFODILS book and is negotiating television/movie rights for the series.
The lectures are part of the free “Live in the Library” series sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
The library is open seven days a week at 1001 S. Dixie Freeway. For more information, please call (386) 424-2910. Learn about Volusia County's public library branches at www.volusialibrary.org and the
Friends of the Library at www.folnewsmyrna.org.