Area poet to read from new book at Rumors Cafe June 28

Poet/author S. T. Haggerty will from his new book Cows in the Fog June 28 at 5:30 p.m. at

Rumors European Café, 22 Mill Plain ‘Road (next to




Windmill Diner) in Danbury.

Haggerty grew up in Greenwich and his family spent summers



in Vermont where the children’s playground was farmlands and wooded areas. So



it is not surprising his childhood surrounded by nature filled with lake swims,



hikes and farm chores influence some of the poetry. Other themes are spirituality,



human observations and humor in such sections as “Quips and Quotes” and one of



the stories, “The Stockton Diet,” in which a regular guy in a house empty of



food ventures out at night after the town is closed down and finds food where



“few men would dare to eat.”

His father worked in music editing and was retired by the



time Haggerty was born so as a young boy he got to spend time with him, and was



around composers and musicians, some well-known growing up. Calling his father



an inspiration, an early memory, the author recalls, “sitting in my father’s



office writing stories for school in his creative ambiance as he edited music



for Richard Rogers” for the “Sound of Music.”

The author invites readers to walk down country roads and



“Breathe the fresh air, feel the warmth of a cow against your cheek at milking,



or stand on a wood plank bridge as a roaring brook cheers a valley on a dismal



day.”

The book (available July 1 on amazon.com) has something for all



ages.

Recently, the author visited some childhood haunts and



stopped in at the Robert Frost Stone House Museum in Shaftsbury, and met a



Frost expert who told him, like Haggerty, the poet drew inspiration from



gardening and farm chores.

He also visited Manchester where the book is being sold at



the Northshire Bookstore, in the largest independent bookstore in the U.S.(



http://www.northshire.com/)

S.T. Haggerty served as a magazine editor at McGraw-Hill



Publications in New York. As a freelance writer, he has published articles in a



number of magazines. He began his journalism career as a college senior,



writing sports articles for the Bennington Banner in Vermont.

He received his Master’s Degree in Journalism from the



University of South Carolina where he attended on a graduate assistantship



scholarship. His concentration was in creative fiction and non-fiction. He



placed third in USC’s fiction writing contest.

From Southern Vermont College, he earned his B.S. degree in



Business Communications with a minor in English Literature.

He is an alumnus of the American Society of Magazine Editors



Internship Program, and was chosen as one of three American students by the



vice president of McGraw-Hill to be an editorial trainee.

Contact: S. T. Haggerty

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Haggerty, author or visit sthaggerty.com

Contact: Donna Christopher                                                                            



203.240.6764