ArtFarm Enterprises will be holding auditions for their inaugural production of Kim & Delia, an original full length play by Islander and ArtFarm co-founder Brian Ditchfield, on Sunday, April 26, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Farm Institute. Most of the roles have already been cast, but producers are still looking for an actress between the ages of 10 and 12 to play the lead role of Kim, and a non-Equity actress to play several ensemble roles.

Audition sides are available online at artfarmenterprises.com.

Poetry is coming back to Che’s Lounge in Vineyard Haven. The popular music venue has hosted several poetry events including Vineyard Slam, Hot Words, and the Warrior Writers (Iraq Veterans against the War). Linda Black and Michael West, organizers of the new Island Voices series, invite Island poets of all ages, styles, and levels of accomplishment to come and share their work in celebration of National Poetry Month.

In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (Call me Becca) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe fears and detests Richard Moby, the chief executive of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe has been obsessed with “taking down” Moby.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with a poetry reading by local poets John Maloney and Margaret (Peggy) Howe Freydberg at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, April 8, at 5:30 p.m.

Take This Poem

Take this poem. No. Really

take it. It belongs to you.

Like anything you read.

It belongs. Like Hawaii’s

swaying palms, weighted

coconuts, rungs tying

the trunk of the tree. All.

Yours for free.

What did you think

your first grade teacher

was giving to you? Letters,

words, a dog with spots,