SHU Hosts Reception for Book On Dingle Peninsula, Feb. 1

Fairfield, CT -- Sacred Heart University will host a book launch and reception for Professor Jonas Zdanys’s book, St. Brigid’s Well. The single narrative poem began on the West Coast of Ireland when Zdanys was teaching a seminar in Dingle, County Kerry. St. Brigid’s Well explores how “poetry of place” can also define the interior human landscape. The poem’s focus on the Dingle Peninsula is linked to the figure of Brigid, who serves as a touchstone in that exploration both as Christian saint and as pagan goddess. It is Brigid, in both forms, who appears on the pages as a principal definer and texture of the Irish landscape and as a keystone in the revelations of self that the book explores.

As University poet-in-residence, Zdanys teaches creative writing and modern poetry seminars and directs SHU’s program in creative writing. He is a bilingual poet and translator and the author of 46 books, written in both English and Lithuanian.

The event will be held in the Art & Design Gallery at Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Avenue, Fairfield on Wednesday, February 1, 4 p.m.

The gathering is sponsored by Sacred Heart University’s Center for Irish Cultural Studies and is free and open to the public.

PHOTO: Sacred Heart University poet-in-residence Jonas Zdanys at a poetry reading in the Art & Design Gallery in November 2016. Photo by Tracy Deer-Mirek