Hello everyone and welcome to our FIFTH annual Hartland Poetry Fest and our SECOND Virtual Hartland Poetry Fest. Today’s poetry event is sponsored by the Hartland Community Arts with the Hartland Public Library and generous support from Literary North.The Hartland Community Arts would like to THANK Nancy Tusinki of the Hartland Public Library for co-hosting this event. A big THANK YOU also to Shari Altman and Rebecca Siegel, of Literary North, for giving social media support to promote this event. Today, April 29th, we gather to celebrate National Poetry Month, Poem-in-your-Pocket Day and a myriad of voices in the Upper Valley. This year, 2021, our poetry theme is Reckoning and Renewal and you will hear from six local poets tonight: Megan Buchanan, Robert Foote,Taylor Katz, Samantha Kolber, Peter Money and Didi Jackson.