BookEnds Connecting Writers and Readers Meet the Poet September 28 11:30 a.m. Wadena Public Library Poet Thomas R. Smith Selected poems will be displayed on the Poetry Walk at Green Island in Wadena Poetry on the Side of Nature Writing the Nature Poem as an Act of Survival An Essay with Poems by Thomas R. Smith Now in its seventh season, BookEnds is a monthly literary event connecting readers and writers. It is hosted in June by Travelin' Storyseller in collaboration with the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center. It is funded by a grant from FIVE WINGS the Five Wings Arts Council to the Wadena County Historical Society. BookEnds Connecting Writers and Readers Meet the Poet September 28 11:30 a.m. Wadena Public Library Poet Thomas R. Smith Selected poems will be displayed on the Poetry Walk at Green Island in Wadena Poetry on the Side of Nature Writing the Nature Poem as an Act of Survival An Essay with Poems by Thomas R. Smith Now in its seventh season , BookEnds is a monthly literary event connecting readers and writers . It is hosted in June by Travelin ' Storyseller in collaboration with the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center . It is funded by a grant from FIVE WINGS the Five Wings Arts Council to the Wadena County Historical Society .