Ann Ehringhaus will hold a reading and book signing for her new poetry book at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 16, in the Kitty Mitchell Studio across from Community Square.
The book is titled “poems of brown and gold, reckonings along the road.”
It includes poems about climate change and change in general, and a section of poems written while Ehringhaus worked at Cape Lookout lighthouse for the Cape Lookout National Park Service.
She worked there for several years and also at other sites on Portsmouth and on the north and south Core Banks.
Ehringhaus’s photographic artwork has been exhibited around the Southeast in galleries, museums, and colleges, both as a solo artist and in group exhibitions.
In 2020, she was one of eight regional artists featured in the nationwide outdoor Photoville Pecha Kucha Event exhibit in Durham Oct. 6 to Nov. 15.
Her books are “Ocracoke A.D.,” co-authored with Heather Johnson, that looks back on the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, “Ten Thousand Breakfasts: A Tale of Wonder” (Big Ocean Press, 2013) that recounts life at Oscar’s House Bed and Breakfast, which she ran for more than 30 years, “Ocracoke Portrait” (John F Blair, 1988), a photo essay that captures images and stories of the island’s history and culture and “Send Me the Wind,” (Big Ocean Press, 2016), a collaboration with Cape Cod poet Ed Wanamaker in which her photography is paired with Wanamaker’s poems.
