The Friends of the Rochester Public Library have announced their second annual SPRING FLING FUNDRAISER to be held on Saturday, May 16th, 4 – 6 pm, at the library. This popular fundraiser will include a presentation by Sara Tucker, Korongo Books of Randolph, and feature their newest publication, Jack Rowell: Photographs. Since 2008, Korongo Books has helped hundreds of Vermonters write down their stories and get them into print. Its crowning achievement is Jack Rowell: Photographs, a 12-by-14-inch hardcover volume of portraits that showcases the life's work of Vermont photographer Jack Rowell. In her presentation "Being Seen," editor and publisher Sara Tucker tells the story behind the book and reflects on the significance of Jack's work in today's world. Her short talk will include a discussion with the photographer. Also in attendance will be Vermont Poet Laureate, Bianca Stone. Reading from her newest work, "A Near and Distant World", Stone will present a collection that Sharon Olds proclaims "powerful, moving, and original". Noted poet John Ashberry identifies Stone as "a brilliant transcriber of her generation's emerging pathology and sensibility." Edward Hirsch calls Bianca Stone "a seeker . . . for something deep and meaningful, something ongoing, mysterious, and ineffable". Stone is currently teaching at Dartmouth University, is a founder of the Ruth Stone House in Goshen, and has been an incredibly active VT poet laureate promoting poetry across New England.