Emma Young’s precisely detailed poetry is born from broad feelings. Her poems come from the specific softness of summer dusk, from the heartbreaking tenderness of a home town, from the porous release of touching ones toes.

Handel’s Messiah has risen again on the Island and will be performed for the first time in over a decade on Saturday in the Old Whaling Church.

A music group that plays to sold-out mainland audiences every December is making its Island debut Saturday, Dec. 17.