The hills are alive with poetry

Now here's an interesting pairing for a reading: On July 18 at 7 p.m., the Litchfield County Writers Project at the University of Connecticut’s Torrington campus will host a poetry reading with Charles Van Doren, the noted scholar, editor and author (you may remember him from the TV quiz show scandal of the 1950s), and his daughter-in-law Sally Van Doren.

Charles Van Doren will turn his attention to Emily Dickinson in his readings, “Poems of love, poems of loss.” Sally Van Doren will read from her poetry collection, "Sex at Noon Taxes," winner of the 2007 Walt Whitman Award by the Academy of American Poets.