Prose and poetry reading set for March 28 in Rehoboth

Browseabout Books and the Coastal Writers will sponsor a prose and poetry reading from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, March 28. Local authors Denise Clemons, Kit Zak and Tim Linehan will read selections of their work.

Denise Clemons holds a BA in biopsychology from Vassar College and an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University. She spent the first 20 years of her career as an executive in the technology industry before escaping the corporate world to devote her energies to the nonprofit arena.

Clemons lives in Lewes and has written the weekly food column for the Cape Gazette newspaper since 2005. She has been twice selected by the Delaware Division of the Arts to attend the Cape Henlopen Writers Retreat. Clemons has published fiction, nonfiction and poetry in journals, chapbooks and anthologies. She will be reading several selections from her published work.

Kit Zak, a native of West Virginia, taught at the university level in Maryland for 25 years before she and her husband moved to Lewes. She now focuses on visiting her grandchildren, ecology and poetry. She is a member of the Coastal Writers and the Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild. In 2014, she had poems published in several journals and anthologies, including California Quarterly, The Blue Collar Review and The Broadkill Review. She won second place in a regional poetry contest in 2013 and has been selected three times to participate in a Delaware Division of the Arts retreat led by Joann Balingit, Delaware’s poet laureate. She will read a dozen or more of her short poems.

Thomas F. Linehan Jr. was born and raised in rural Connecticut. He is a graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature and a core member of the Coastal Writers group at the Rehoboth Art League in Delaware. His young adult Civil War historical novel, "Drums of Courage," was originally published in 2005 and republished in 2010. He spent several years researching World War II and Holocaust archives in preparation for his forthcoming historical novel, also for young adults, on the Jewish partisans in Poland and Belorussia. Linehan’s poetry has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of The Broadkill Review. He will read from "Drums of Courage" and from his new manuscript.

As always, this event is free and open to the public, and no prior registration is required. For more information, call 302-226-2665 or go to browseaboutbooks.com.