Please join us on Monday, October 5 at 5:00 pm for a Byrdcliffe Forum author talk with the one and only Sparrow! He will discuss Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies, his new book to be published on October 13, 2020, by Monkfish Book Publishing Company in Rhinebeck.

The approximately 50-minute talk will take place on Zoom. Please note that you will have to register for a Zoom account if you don’t already have one. Details below:

Byrdcliffe Forum Author Talk with Sparrow
Time: Oct 5, 2020 05:00 PM

https://zoom.us/j/95443596853?pwd=M3JXbERRdlFodTJxNVNmSll4WFlFQT09

Originally conceived as a list of “eternal truths” for his young adult daughter, Sparrow’s new book is a quirky collection of humor, spiritual wisdom, memoir, observations of absurdity, and reasons to be happy—all of which turn out to resonate deeply in this time of upheaval.

Including a wide and wild array of subjects—such as the art of aroma; self-psychoanalysis; dancing as medicine; how to decorate with books, get equipped for winter or summer, compost poetically, conduct a wedding or host a party like no other; and age vigorously (including an interview with Sparrow’s 100-year-old father)—Sparrow has written an invaluable guidebook for remaining relatively sane, happy, and even innocent in the face of a global pandemic and political upheaval.

A longtime resident of Phoenicia, Sparrow is once again running for President and blogging about it; he has been published in The New Yorker, The Sun, American Poetry Review, Chronogram, and Ulster Publishing’s newspapers.