Schott’s poetry explores nature, baseball and more

Poetry is the topic tonight at Auntie’s Bookstore , where Lynn Rigney Schott will read from her new chapbook, “Light Years.”

This might not seem like too special of an event. But fans of baseball might disagree.

Schott, who lives on a farm near Kettle Falls, is the daughter of the late baseball manager Bill Rigney . In fact, a poem that Schott wrote about her father, “Spring Training,” was published in the March 26, 1984, edition of The New Yorker magazine. A New York Times article about Schott and how her poem came to be published can be accessed here .

But Schott, who has an uncanny way with words, writes about other things as well. For example: the natural world she observes from her home near Mingo Mountain. You can also access three of Schott’s poems by clicking here. I’ll just include a stanza from one of my favorites, a poem titled “The Butcher Bird:

I don’t know which is worse, you said,
Catholicism or Science.
Better to be a marveller like Muir
who admired the world in a wild-ass storm
from the top of a reeling Douglas fir.
“I clung with muscles firm
braced, like a bobolink on a reed.”

Schott’s reading will begin at 7. As is typical at Auntie’s, the event is free and open to the public.