AUBURN — Poet Lynne Schmidt plans to discuss the self-penned book “The Unaccounted for Circles of Hell” at 4 p.m. Friday, March 15, in the Androscoggin Community Room of Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring St.
In Dante’s Inferno, he easily descends into Hell and explores circles reserved for traitors and betrayers, and liars and thieves.
“The Unaccounted for Circles of Hell” wrestles with the terrifying notion that we are currently there, that the things we suffer on a daily basis — violence against women, body image, death and dying, and grief — are a part of some larger punishment, according to a news release from the library.
Schmidt will read the work, and discuss of how this collection came into being.
Schmidt, the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor and a mental health professional with a focus on trauma and healing, is the winner of the 2020 New Women’s Voices Contest and author of the chapbooks, “Dead Dog Poems” and “Gravity,” which was listed as one of the 17 Best Breakup Books to Read in 2020, and “On Becoming a Role Model,” which was featured on The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed for PTSD Awareness Week.
Schmidt’s work has received the Maine Nonfiction Award, Editor’s Choice Award, and was a 2018 and 2019 PNWA finalist for memoir and poetry respectively.
No registration is required.
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