FREE Poetry Reading with Wayne-Daniel Berard, PhD

Won't you join us for our free new series: Local Authors

Our inaugural author will be Wayne-Daniel Berard PhD. He's written many books including, poetry, mysteries, and even divine feminine books. Wayne-Danial was a professor at a local college for over 35 years. Now he has more time to dedicate to his passion of writing and aren't we lucky to be able to benefit from this! Here's a little about his chosen book for the day and himself;

Art of Enlightenment

What is so extraordinary about Art of Enlightenment is Wayne-Daniel Berard’s artistry. In carefully crafted poems, he delivers emotional punches via surprising language and imagery. Whether he is writing about his adoptive mother’s death, his adoptive father’s dementia, or relationships with his children, step-children, and wife, Berard leaves us breathless.

For example, “Praying for my Mother,” ends: I pray that she will stay/not one more moment from/her great, re-mothering birth. In “Daniel,” the poet claims he doesn’t have a new…