FARMINGTON – Lee Sharkey, author of “A Darker, Sweeter String,” will give a reading and sign books at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 13, at the Farmington Public Library. The reading was snowed out Feb. 13.

Sharkey’s poetry explores cruelty, violence and war – drawing imagery from Israel/Palestine, Somalia, the Balkans, Iraq and small-town U.S.A., as well as from the intimate domains of sickness and birth.