Poetry readings return to the art-dotted gardens of the Leiber Collection in Springs on Wednesday. Free tours of the museum, featuring Judith Leiber’s famous handbags and Gerson Leiber’s paintings, start at 4 p.m., and refreshments will be served.
Reading from their work starting at 5 p.m. will be Michelle Murphy of Amagansett, LB Johnson, who teaches at Stony Brook University, Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, who was Suffolk County poet laureate from 2009 to 2011, and Sarah Goodman, the county’s current teen poet laureate, whose new poem inspired by Ms. Leiber is below.
“Hungary for Beauty”
Your Budapest-born brilliance
Is Hungary for beauty
I see in your eyes
As you work, a sparkle
Just like that of the leather you stitch
Meticulously crafting
An oasis
A kindness
You designed freedom
In a time when you were
Shackled to misery
And through the gloom
You somehow saw beauty
You planted the roots
Of something that would bloom
To brighten up
What appeared to be
A vast, everlasting night
Even starving,
My darling Judith,
You were hungry for beauty