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How Many Hats?

Eureka Main Library

Poetry takes the conditions of everyday life and creates a new way to see them. A poet can scrutinize the harsh, mock the rigid, highlight the graceful and honor the humble in just a few words that may have the power to stay with you for a lifetime. If you’ve been feeling the need for art, art that makes it possible to keep on keeping on, to acknowledge that daily reality and confront it with spirit, give yourself a poetry break. More About the Poets Giancarlo and Ed represent some of Humboldt’s finest qualities – hard work, deep roots, vibrant creativity, astonishing flexibility, and thoughtfulness about the future. They both wear many hats in our community, and will be putting on that “poet hat” for this free spoken word performance at the Eureka Main Library. Wednesday September 19 at 6:30 p.m. Don’t miss it. Ed Munn has lived in various parts of Humboldt County for over forty years, committing poetry sporadically throughout. He worked as a logger, carpenter, and homesteader for many years before discovering the perfect profession, running the bookmobile for the Humboldt County Library. This happy blend of librarianship and truck driving suited him so well, he persisted for 22 years, and still takes to the road at times as a substitute driver. Local theater audiences also know Ed as an actor who performs with NCRT and pulls off magisterial and comic roles with equal skill. Giancarlo Campagna is a poet, actor, cultural worker and activist who lives in Eureka with his wonderful wife Renee and their boy, Carlo. Giancarlo’s poems communicate the need for a moral and ethical outlook on being a human being. He uses personal experience, political and social themes and nature to express the concerns of living as human beings in a time of depersonalization, isolation, violence and hyper-materialism. Amid these cultural cliffs, Giancarlo’s poetic observations make way for hope, action, and humor.

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WHERE

• Eureka Main Library

PRICE

• Free