STRATFORD - Shelton Artist John Ulatowski is the featured artist for the “Places of Rest,” photography and poetry exhibit that will be the November art display at the Stratford Library, 2203 Main St.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Ulatowski has displayed his photographs and complementary poetic verse at local libraries in Bridgeport, Easton, Ridgefield, Shelton, Naugatuck, Ansonia, Orange and Milford, as well as Trumbull Town Hall.

His first exhibit was at the Stratford Library in 1995 and it has always remained a special place for him, library officials said in a statement.

The new exhibit is a collection of images of nature, the sea and people taken in and around Connecticut, the statement said. His poetic verses offer the reader a life theme - "a universal sense of a common bond of an image, place or life experience," the statement said.

Ulatowski graduated Sacred Hearth University with a degree in English. He is the author of several children’s short stories and much of his work has been published in a new book, "Places of Rest," available through Blurb.com.

He lives in Shelton and can be reached at jrulatowski@yahoo.com

Viewing hours for “Places of Rest” are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays: and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. The art exhibit, is in the main lobby of the library, runs through Nov. 30. For more information, call the library's Public Relations and Programming Office at 203.385.4162 or visit http://www.stratfordlibrary.org/.