Poetic journey: For more than a decade, recently retired UVA professor and poet Gregory Orr has been writing what he describes as “the book”—an imagined tome containing every poem and song ever written. Inspired by the tradition of lyric poetry, Selected Books of the Beloved is a celebration of love, feeling, and the transformative power of poetry, which Orr experienced firsthand after a tragic childhood accident left him saddled with years of shock, sadness, and trauma. Split into four sections and multiple “books,” Selected Books of the Beloved is a witty, weighty, and healing read.
Saturday 8/27. Free, 2pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com