The Edgartown Public Library will present an evening program with Island poet, artist and printer Dan Waters on Wednesday, May 6, from 7 to 8 p.m.

Mr. Waters is a man of many talents and seemingly boundless energy. A former poet laureate of West Tisbury, he is proprietor of the Indian Hill Press and the author of three books of poetry, Robert Frost’s Answering Machine, Remembering the Islander and Needing Winter.

For more than half a decade, the Indian Hill press produced a line of greeting cards that became so successful, with more than 600 outlets nationwide, that in the end, Mr. Waters says, “We had to stop.”

On his web site, he writes: “Released from the demands of card production, I’ve been able to get back to fundamentals: designing, carving and printing new images which I sell at the summer Vineyard Artisans’ Shows at the West Tisbury Grange.”

Mr. Waters is active in the community as an elected member of the West Tisbury library trustees. He is also an ex-officio member and the unofficial guiding spirit of the Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council.

Born in New Jersey and raised in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Mr. Waters has lived on the Vineyard since 1977. His early poetry was published in the Vineyard Gazette over the initials D.A.W.; since 1996, his poems have been a regular feature of Yankee Magazine. Most recently, he was a winner in the Bright Hill Press Chapbook Contest. The resulting collection, Skunk Night Sonnets, will be published this spring.

Mr. Waters will read from his own work at the Edgartown Library program, and will take questions from the audience. All are welcome.