Quarter-Peeled Oranges: A Poet and Illustrator Collaboration
Speakers:
Dr. Bruce Gillett, author of Quarter-Peeled Oranges
Bill Needs, illustrator of Quarter-Peeled Oranges
Smyrna Public Library, Meeting Room
Tuesday November 12, 2013
10:30 AM
Mr. Needs will discuss how life events for the author and artist led to the creation of a book by a couple strangers with no practical experience to the process they would undertake. Dr. Gillett will also read a few poems from the collection. Some illustrations from the book will be on display in the Library's Second Floor Gallery.
Questions and Answers will be encouraged throughout the presentation. Books will be available for sale and signing. All proceeds will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure – Atlanta Affiliate. Six books will pay for one mammogram for a woman who cannot afford to pay for the test; it also funds other services for breast cancer prevention, detection, treatment and research.
Refreshments will be served.
About Quarter-Peeled Oranges by Sally Litchfield (Marietta Daily Journal)
In Quarter-Peeled Oranges, a compilation of love poems, Dr. Bruce Gillett remembers his lovely wife, Dale, who died of breast cancer in 2010. Local artist Bill Needs illustrated the book. Quarter-Peeled Oranges a tribute to wife, a cause for the cure, started as grief writing and eventually took on another purpose. Gillett brings awareness of the need for cancer research and donates all proceeds from the book to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
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