Meet Linda Parsons to celebrate her new book of poetry, “Valediction,” during National Poetry Month. The collection travels inward and outward, exploring life’s oppositions: parental and relationship struggles and losses; home and away; the mystical and spiritual versus the physical; balancing grief and reemergence; hello and goodbye. The volume is a hybrid, featuring poems and diptychs as well as micro-essays.

Parsons will be joined by other poets from the region: Jim Minick, whose new book “The Intimacy of Spoons” uses the spoon as a metaphor for many observations, from love and marriage to the spoon of a grave that holds our bodies; and Rees Shearer, Darryl Ann Beeghley, and David Winship from the Appalachian Center for Poets and Writers.

The Sunday with Friends series of author presentations is sponsored by the Friends of the Washington County Public Library.