HONESDALE, PA — Black and Brass Coffee Roasters Cafe, 520 Main St., will host Karen Morris and John Tomlinson in a poetry reading and book signing event for their book, “RAGE: The Misery of Men :: HOPE: The Dawning of Men,” on Friday, August 26, from 6 to 7 p.m. There will be wine, snacks and coffee drinks.

Art critic/curator Dominique Nahas, in a review of the book, wrote that it “brings together... a remarkable duo of artistic poet and poetic artist.

“Poet and psycho-analyst Karen Morris’s vibrant text alternates between soulful introspective tenderness and vituperative rage blending marvelously with visual artist and educator John Tomlinson’s drawings that are induced by graphite stick and digital stylus, both...

“The emotional truths uttered, evoked and ‘unconcealed’ in this book provide emotional, intellectual and psychical nourishment.”