WE seeks what unites us, how to change our perceptions to heal families, friendships, and country of incivility and villainization by practicing greater compassion, by seeing past egos to souls. April will read from WE and share stories of being a bridge.  She will invite the audience to share personal stories of positive interactions with people you know or have met, whose politics may differ from yours, but with whom you shared a moment of mutual humanity. 

April Ossmann is the author of We (Red Hen Press), Event Boundaries (a Vermont Book Award finalist), and Anxious Music (both Four Way Books), and recipient of a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant. She has published her poems widely, and is an independent editor at www.aprilossmann.com She has taught at the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sierra Nevada College, was executive director of Alice James Books from 2000 – 2008, and lives in White River Junction, VT.

 This event is free, ADA accessible, and open to the public.