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Poet and the Bench, which opened last year, is located on Locust Avenue⎯known as the town’s design district⎯and offers handcrafted jewelry for women and men, as well as pottery, fine art and other distinctive home goods. Bonnie Powers and her husband, Jeffrey Levin, are the proprietors of this boutique, and Levin creates many of the pieces himself.

“Both of us have been collecting art and things for our entire lives,” Levin says. “When we thought of the shop, we knew that we wanted it to be a lot like our home, where you invite people into your personal tastes with design and decor.”

Lisa is the artist behind the encaustic series, “There are more stars in the sky than sand on earth” featured in the store. This series conjures the vastness of space, the depths of the ocean, the glistening in a wave, the sparkle in the tail of a meteorite during its atmospheric flight.