TABLE OF CONTENTS_______________________________________
- Quotes
- Poem of the Month
- Book of the Month
- Website of the Month
- News Items / Writing Workshops
- Poetry Calendar for August
- Subscription and Contact Information
I:__QUOTES________________________________________________
Deep feeling doesn’t make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
– Thom Gunn
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
– Salman Rushdie
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
– Rudyard Kipling
II:__POEM OF THE MONTH__________________________________
A BLOCKHEAD
Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)
Before me lies a mass of shapeless days,
Unseparated atoms, and I must
Sort them apart and live them. Sifted dust
Covers the formless heap. Reprieves, delays,
There are none, ever. As a monk who prays
The sliding beads asunder, so I thrust
Each tasteless particle aside, and just
Begin again the task which never stays.
And I have known a glory of great suns,
When days flashed by, pulsing with joy and fire!
Drunk bubbled wine in goblets of desire,
And felt the whipped blood laughing as it runs!
Spilt is that liquor, my too hasty hand
Threw down the cup, and did not understand.
III:__BOOK OF THE MONTH_________________________________
Each month we highlight a book of poetry by a Connecticut author.
PERSPECTIVE
by Bob Jacob
What may be most surprising in Perspective, which is a book full of surprises, is the amount of joy, laughter, last-minute insight, and utter honesty shown by the hospice patients so clearly and lovingly depicted here. Bob Jacob’s poems also praise the dedication of the nurses and others who make The Connecticut Hospice such a place of refuge. The book is a testament to the human spirit. Readers have been enthusiastic about the verse of a man who has dedicated himself to those most in need of what Jacob calls his loving words. Jean Valentine writes, “I admire Bob Jacob’s loving, tender voice valuing people close to death.” And Stephen Dunn has commented that the poems “reveal a man you’d like to know.” Perspective has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Bob Jacob began to read poetry to cancer support groups in the 1990’s. In addition, he has made his large collection of poems available to churches, chaplains, and individual cancer and MS patients. For seven years he has been reading poetry as a hospice volunteer at The Connecticut Hospice Hospital in Branford. He has also been a hospice volunteer at the Visiting Nurses Association in East Hartford, and is at present a hospice volunteer through the VNA at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, reading to home-bound patients. In 2004 a short selection of Jacob’s hospice poems, “Upon Their Quiet Altars,” was published. Like this full-length collection, the earlier book appeared under the aegis of The Connecticut Hospice, to which all proceeds of both books are being donated.
$19.00 (ISBN: 978-0-9792226-6-5)
Antrim House www.antrimhousebooks.com/index.html
Bob will be reading/book-signing on August 14 at Seabury Retirement Community, Bloomfield.
IV:__WEBSITE OF THE MONTH______________________________
MODERN AMERICAN POETRY
An online journal and multimedia companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press).
From the website: “What makes MAPS unique is its emphasis on collaborative process. MAPS is not a single, didactic edifice that hides its agenda behind a veil of authority. It is a living, breathing conversation between hundreds of poets, scholars, and readers, constantly growing and presented in an eminently clear and usable way. Extraordinary in its depth and breadth, and a one-of-a-kind resource for teaching modern American poetry, MAPS provides a single clearinghouse for some of the best criticism on the best poets of our time.”
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/
V:__NEWS ITEMS / WRITING WORKSHOPS____________________
Sunday, August 17 2008
10:00am - 5:00pm
SUNDAY WRITING RETREATS
with Sharon Charde
Many of us sense that there are stories within us that need to be told, but cannot find the time, space or circumstances in our busy lives to do so. This series of Sunday writing retreats with Sharon Charde will provide that opportunity. The retreats are intense community writing experiences. Together we create a safe and supportive writing environment that encourages risks we would never take alone. We are fed by the listening of others, the rest from our busy lives, the delicious lunch. There is no critical feedback, only focused attention and deep acceptance.
The group is limited to eight women, many who attend on a regular basis. The cost is $75 per session, or $60 if you sign up for four or more. The next date is August 17. There will also be meetings in September, November and December, and once a month after that. We meet from 10:00 to 5:00. The location is Lakeville, CT, at the home of Sharon Charde. See her website, www.SharonCharde.com, for more information and testimonials from women who have attended in the past. Write her at mailto:sharchar@sbcglobal.net to register or to ask other questions.
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KAY RYAN APPOINTED NEW POET LAUREATE
On July 17, 2008, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the appointment of Kay Ryan as the Library’s 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-2009.
Ryan will take up her duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary series Oct. 16 with a reading of her work. She also will be a featured guest at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in the Poetry pavilion Sept. 27 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
John Barr, president of The Poetry Foundation, said: “Halfway into a Ryan poem, one is ready for either a joke or a profundity; typically it ends in both. Before we know it the poem arrives at some unexpected, deep insight that likely will alter forever the way we see that thing.”
Ryan has written six books of poetry, plus a limited edition artist’s book, along with a number of essays. Her awards include the Gold Medal for poetry, 2005, from the San Francisco Commonwealth Club; the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from The Poetry Foundation in 2004; a Guggenheim fellowship the same year; a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship as well as the Maurice English Poetry Award in 2001; the Union League Poetry Prize in 2000; and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award in 1995. She has won four Pushcart Prizes and has been selected four different years for the annual volumes of the Best American Poetry. Her poems have been widely reprinted and internationally anthologized. Since 2006, she has been a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Read the entire Press Release here at the Library of Congress website.
VI:__POETRY CALENDAR FOR JULY_________________________
Sunday, August 3 2008
2:00pm - 4:00pm
BEAN & LEAF OPEN MIKE POETRY READING
hosted by Tom Weigel
Old poets read, new voices heard in a new venue with “a killer sound system and lots of delicious teas and coffee and pastries.” Visit the website for more information: www.bean-leaf.com
Bean & Leaf Cafe
13 Washington St.
New London, CT
860-701-0000
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Sunday, August 3 2008
4:30pm - 6:00pm
POETRY POTLUCK AT THE SANCTUARY
Do you love poetry? Would you like to be part of an ongoing poetry discussion group offering food for the mind and the heart? If so, come and join us on the this first Sunday of August at The Sanctuary in East Haddam to discuss poetry and build community.
This is not about sharing our own work but instead offers us a chance to share the work of poets we love, so you don’t have to be a poet to be part of this group. Just come and bring your love of poetry and a poem you would like to share.
Hosted by Greg Coleman, Suzy Lamson, and Edwina Trentham.
The Sanctuary at Shepardfields
59 Bogel Road
East Haddam, CT
(From Daniels Road, turn LEFT onto Bogel, then look for the “Labyrinth & Yurt” sign. It’s a dirt driveway.)
For more information call 860-319-1134 or visit www.sanctuaryatshepardfields.org
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Monday, August 4 2008
7:00pm
THE LOVE JONES OPEN MIC
Spoken Word and Song event. All poets welcome.
$5.00 cover. Hosted by Darlene Brandon Scott.
The Russell
103 Pratt Street
Hartford, CT
www.therussell.net
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Monday, August 4 2008
7:30pm - 9:00pm
POETRY BEAT
Poetry open mike at Las Vetas Lounge.
Las Vetas Lounge
1462 Post Road
Fairfield, CT
203-255-1958
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Monday, August 4 2008
9:00pm
BEATNIK 2000
Music and poetry every Monday night, hosted by Ed Leonard. No Cover.
www.cafenine.com/schedule.html
Cafe 9
250 State Street
New Haven, CT
203-789-8281
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Tuesday, August 5 2008
7:00pm - 9:00pm
FIRST TUESDAY POETRY (Middletown)
featuring Suzanne Niedzielska
Unemployed for a year, Suzanne took up poetry again in 1994 and became a regular attendee of the West Chester University Conference for Narrative and Formalist poetry. In September 2007, she self-published a chapbook entitled Black Tie & Tales through Shadow Poetry online. She has a doctorate in philosophy from Fordham University and a B.S in physics.
Broad Street Books hosts a monthly poetry reading, First Tuesday Poetry Series, with a featured poet followed by an open mike, on the first Tuesday of every month at 7:00pm. Admission is free.
45 Broad Street
Middletown, CT
Broad Street Books
For more information, contact Brian Mitchard at 860-685-READ
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Tuesday, August 5 2008
7:30pm
FIRST TUESDAY POETRY (Wilton)
Is not meeting this month. Also, the series is moving; check back for news.
First Tuesday group meets every month on the first Tuesday, offering an open mike and a mix of guest poets and featured regular readers. Please come, listen, and bring a favorite poem. Better still, read your own poems.
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Wednesday, August 6 2008
6:30pm
SUNKEN GARDEN POETRY FESTIVAL
featuring Paul Muldoon
Pulitzer Prize winner and author of 10 collections of poetry, Irish poet Paul Muldoon was recently appointed poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine. In addition to his “stimulating, provocative and unfailingly interesting” poetry (Maria Johnson, Contemporary Poetry Review), Muldoon has won awards for songs co-written with Warren Zevon and Bruce Springsteen.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature in 1996. Other awards include the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry, inter al.
Joining Paul Muldoon will be musical guest Rackett, founded by Muldoon and Nigel Smith in 2004, is a “strong, self-contained, furiously rocking band” (Stuart Mitchner, Princeton Town Topics), with “enlightened lyrics” and “nasty guitar licks.”
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival
Hill-Stead Museum
35 Mountain Road
Farmington, CT
www.hillstead.org/activities/poetry.html
Time: Gates open at 5:30pm. Poetry and music performances from 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Admission: Free to the public. On-site parking: $10 per vehicle. Off-site local parking is available on a limited basis. Seating: Bring a lawn chair or blanket for seating in and around the garden. More info and directions at www.hillstead.org/activities/poetry_performseries.html#facts
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Wednesday, August 6 2008
7:30pm
POEMALLEY at Curley’s Diner
Read poetry, discuss writing and other topics of interest.
Curley’s Diner
62 West Park Place
Stamford, CT
203-327-3716
mailto:ayarmal@earthlink.net
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Wednesday, August 6 2008
7:30pm - 10:00pm
WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY SERIES
featuring Tess Bird & Lisa Butler
Two award-winning young poets who are CT Circuit Student Poets - Tess Bird, and Lisa Butler, will give a joint reading.
Tess Bird is a Women’s Studies major with a concentration in Creative Writing at the University of Connecticut, class of 2008. She works in the UConn Writing Center and is the editor of the Women’s Center Newsletter. Tess is interested in the intersection of visual art, writing, feminism, and culture, and in breaking the boundaries among them.
Lisa Butler is a Visual Fine Arts major at Manchester Community College. She received Honorable Mention in the Freshwater Poetry Contest 2006 and First Place in the MCC Writing Contest for Poetry in 2006. In 2007, she was chosen the Outstanding Young Poet at MCC. Lisa also received the Tessie K. Sharps Prize for an Essay on Friendship at Hunter College.
WNPS, the longest running weekly poetry series in Connecticut, boasts an open mike, feature poets, a Q&A with the feature, and a poetry critique workshop. For more info, visit the website: www.wedpoetry.net.
Molten Java Coffee Roasters, LLC
102 Greenwood Avenue
Bethel, CT
203-739-0313
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Wednesday, August 6 2008
9:30pm - 11:00pm
POETRY NITE at the Huntington Street Café
Poetry Nite every Wednesday at the Huntington Street Café. Run by Sammy and Natalie, it’s open to everyone. Stop by to check the scene or even read a little something. Walk in and you’ll be added to the list.
Email mailto:Pollie_Vack@yahoo.com for info.
Huntington Street Café
90 Huntington Street
Shelton, CT
Phone: 203-925-9064
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Thursday, August 7 2008
7:00pm - 10:00pm
THURSDAY NIGHT POETRY
Open Mike Poetry Reading at Bean & Leaf. Old poets read, new voices heard.
A new venue with “a killer sound system and lots of delicious teas and coffee and pastries.” Visit the website for more information: www.bean-leaf.com.
Bean & Leaf cafe
13 Washington St.
New London, CT
860-701-0000
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Saturday, August 9 2008
3:00pm
RAYMOND BUCK and JENNIFER HOLLEY
A poetry reading by Raymond Buck and Jennifer Holley.
Admission is free. Refreshments served.
Central Gallery
270 Main Street
Old Saybrook, CT
Contact: Hillary Seltzer 860-510-0432
or visit our website: www.centralgallery.net
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Sunday, August 10 2008
2:00pm - 4:00pm
BEAN & LEAF OPEN MIKE POETRY READING
hosted by Tom Weigel
Old poets read, new voices heard in a new venue with “a killer sound system and lots of delicious teas and coffee and pastries.” Visit the website for more information: www.bean-leaf.com
Bean & Leaf Cafe
13 Washington St.
New London, CT
860-701-0000
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Monday, August 11 2008
7:00pm
THE LOVE JONES OPEN MIC
Spoken Word and Song event. All poets welcome.
$5.00 cover. Hosted by Darlene Brandon Scott.
The Russell
103 Pratt Street
Hartford, CT
www.therussell.net
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Monday, August 11 2008
7:15pm
MONDAY NIGHT POETRY in STAMFORD
Monday Night Poetry meets on the second Monday of each month at Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Stamford Town Center.
Please come and listen to local poets, bring a favorite poem, or read your own.
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Stamford Town Center
100 Greyrock Place Suite H009
Stamford, CT
203-323-1248
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Monday, August 11 2008
9:00pm
BEATNIK 2000
Music and poetry every Monday night, hosted by Ed Leonard. No Cover.
www.cafenine.com/schedule.html
Cafe 9
250 State Street
New Haven, CT
203-789-8281
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Wednesday, August 13 2008
7:30pm
POEMALLEY at Curley’s Diner
Read poetry, discuss writing and other topics of interest.
Curley’s Diner
62 West Park Place
Stamford, CT
203-327-3716
mailto:ayarmal@earthlink.net
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Wednesday, August 13 2008
7:30pm - 10:00pm
WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY SERIES
featuring Jim Whiteside and Eli Cleary
Poets Jim Whiteside and Eli Cleary will take listeners down their differing roads. With two poets, two visions, all we need is a yellow wood.
WNPS, the longest running weekly poetry series in Connecticut, boasts an open mike, feature poets, a Q&A with the feature, and a poetry critique workshop. For more info, visit the website: www.wedpoetry.net.
Molten Java Coffee Roasters, LLC
102 Greenwood Avenue
Bethel, CT
203-739-0313
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Wednesday, August 13 2008
9:30pm - 11:00pm
POETRY NITE at the Huntington Street Café
Poetry Nite every Wednesday at the Huntington Street Café. Run by Sammy and Natalie, it’s open to everyone. Stop by to check the scene or even read a little something. Walk in and you’ll be added to the list.
Email mailto:Pollie_Vack@yahoo.com for info.
Huntington Street Café
90 Huntington Street
Shelton, CT
Phone: 203-925-9064
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Thursday, August 14 2008
6:00pm
POETRY IN THE PARK 2008
featuring Susan Deer Cloud
Susan Deer Cloud has had poems, fiction, and non-fiction appear in numerous magazines, literary journals, and anthologies, among them the multicultural anthologies Unsettling America and Identity Lessons, as well as Native American anthologies A Nation Within and Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community. She has received Prairie Schooner’s Readers’ Choice Award and has twice been given First Prize in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Competition. Deer Cloud is the recipient of a New York State Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a Chenango County Council for the Arts Grant, and most recently a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature (Poetry).
Admission is free. This event is supported by Curbstone Press, Quinebaug Valley Community College’s Multicultural and Programming Committee, and ECSU’s English Department.
Thanks also go to Neighborhood Revitalization Zone and Collectivo Mestizal for their support of the Julia de Burgos Park.
Julia de Burgos Park
319 Jackson St
Willimantic, CT
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Thursday, August 14 2008
7:00pm - 10:00pm
THURSDAY NIGHT POETRY
Open Mike Poetry Reading at Bean & Leaf. Old poets read, new voices heard.
A new venue with “a killer sound system and lots of delicious teas and coffee and pastries.” Visit the website for more information: www.bean-leaf.com.
Bean & Leaf cafe
13 Washington St.
New London, CT
860-701-0000
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Thursday, August 14 2008
7:30pm
BOB JACOB
Bob Jacob to read and sign copies of his book, Perspective. Free & open to the public.
See BOOK OF THE MONTH for more his full bio.
Seabury Retirement Community
200 Seabury Drive (off Wintonbury Avenue)
Bloomfield, CT
For more information, call 860-712-8265.
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Saturday, August 16 2008
10:00am - Noon
FAXON POET’S CRITIQUE GROUP
The Faxon Poet’s critique group meets on the third Saturday of the month.
The Faxon Library
1073 New Britain Avenue
West Hartford, CT
860-523-5545
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Saturday, August 16 2008
3:00pm
JEN GATES READING AND BOOK-SIGNING
A reading and book-signing by Jen Gates, whose book Crazy Girl with Lighter is more than a poetry collection: it is an archetypal tale of paradise lost and regained, or at least glimpsed again. Through the story of her descent into the hell of drug addiction and difficult ascent back to the world from which she’d dropped out, Jen Gates has given us a modern morality tale. Steve Straight has said, “Crazy Girl with Lighter has the feel of a memoir, but the language catches you with the surprises of good poetry. This book is the opposite of a suicide note: it is the kind of note you leave to announce why you have decided to live.”
Borders
59 Pavilions Drive
Manchester, CT
860-649-1433
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Sunday, August 17 2008
10:00am - 5:00pm
SUNDAY WRITING RETREATS with Sharon Charde
See NEWS ITEMS / WRITING WORKSHOPS
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Sunday, August 17 2008
2:00pm - 4:00pm
BEAN & LEAF OPEN MIKE POETRY READING
hosted by Tom Weigel
Old poets read, new voices heard in a new venue with “a killer sound system and lots of delicious teas and coffee and pastries.” Visit the website for more information.
Bean & Leaf Cafe
13 Washington St.
New London, CT
860-701-0000
www.bean-leaf.com
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Monday, August 18 2008
6:00pm - 8:00pm
CPS POETRY WORKSHOP in DANBURY
The Danbury Chapter of the Connecticut Poetry Society holds a writing workshop at the Danbury Library on the third Monday of each month. Newcomers are welcome! Bring poems for sharing and discussion (about 6 copies to pass around, if possible).
For information, contact: mailto:dmh2000@sbcglobal.net
Danbury Library
Upstairs Conference Room
170 Main Street
Danbury, CT
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Monday, August 18 2008
7:00pm
THE LOVE JONES OPEN MIC
Spoken Word and Song event. All poets welcome.
$5.00 cover. Hosted by Darlene Brandon Scott.
The Russell
103 Pratt Street
Hartford, CT
www.therussell.net
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Monday, August 18 2008
9:00pm
BEATNIK 2000
Music and poetry every Monday night, hosted by Ed Leonard. No Cover.
www.cafenine.com/schedule.html
Cafe 9
250 State Street
New Haven, CT
203-789-8281
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Wednesday, August 20 2008
6:30pm
SUNKEN GARDEN POETRY FESTIVAL
featuring Night of Fresh Voices
In partnership with select high schools and student competitions, including the IMPAC-CSU Young Writers Competition, five students have been selected to read their award-winning verse. The student poets are Britta Bell (Litchfield High School), Jameson Fitzpatrick (Simsbury High School), Hannah Loeb (Kingswood-Oxford School), Sasha Debevec-McKenney (Windsor High School), and Nicole Morella (Ellington High School). Judges included award-winning poets and teachers Rennie McQuilkin, Steve Straight, and Elizabeth Thomas.
Musical guest: Guitarist Freddie Bryant, active in the New York jazz scene for over 20 years, presents a “gorgeous blend of delicate harmonics, ethereal harmonies and rhythmic freedom” with “an incendiary groove” (Jim Fergeson, Jazz Times Magazine). www.freddiebryant.com
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival
Hill-Stead Museum
35 Mountain Road
Farmington, CT
www.hillstead.org/activities/poetry.html
Time: Gates open at 5:30pm. Poetry and music performances from 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Admission: Free to the public. On-site parking: $10 per vehicle. Off-site local parking is available on a limited basis. Seating: Bring a lawn chair or blanket for seating in and around the garden. More info and directions at www.hillstead.org/activities/poetry_performseries.html#facts
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Wednesday, August 20 2008
7:00pm
THIRD WEDNESDAY POETRY
Third Wednesday Poetry Series is a new series at Corleones Cafe. An open mike will follow feature readers.
Host: Edmond Chibeau
Corleones Cafe
103 Union Street
Willimantic, CT
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Wednesday, August 20 2008
7:30pm
POEMALLEY at Curley’s Diner
Read poetry, discuss writing and other topics of interest.
Curley’s Diner
62 West Park Place
Stamford, CT
203-327-3716
mailto:ayarmal@earthlink.net
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Wednesday, August 20 2008
7:30pm - 10:00pm
WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY SERIES
featuring Mar Walker
Mar Walker (aka Mistryel) is a website tweaker and multi-media tinkerer, odd-jobber, blogger, musician, and artist. She is founder and editor of Bent Pin Quarterly, webmistress for WNPS, and a member of Shijin, a poetry performance troupe. She has one poetry chapbook which is going on line: Inverse Origami - the art of unfolding. Her work has appeared in The Common Ground Review, Fairfield Review, X-Magazine, Underwood Review, on the In Our Own Words website, etc.
WNPS, the longest running weekly poetry series in Connecticut, boasts an open mike, feature poets, a Q&A with the feature, and a poetry critique workshop. For more info, visit the website: www.wedpoetry.net.
Molten Java Coffee Roasters, LLC
102 Greenwood Avenue
Bethel, CT
203-739-0313
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Wednesday, August 20 2008
9:30pm - 11:00pm
POETRY NITE at the Huntington Street Café
Poetry Nite every Wednesday at the Huntington Street Café. Run by Sammy and Natalie, it’s open to everyone. Stop by to check the scene or even read a little something. Walk in and you’ll be added to the list.
Email mailto:Pollie_Vack@yahoo.com for info.
Huntington Street Café
90 Huntington Street
Shelton, CT
Phone: 203-925-9064
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Thursday, August 21 2008
6:30pm
WORD OF MOUTH POETRY SERIES
featuring Lori Allen
L. N. Allen published literary and science fiction under the name Lori Negridge Allen for many years, in such magazines as The Twilight Zone, but the stories gradually shrunk to short shorts, then to prose poems, then to lined free verse and formal poetry. Past work can be found in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, the national SF anthology Final Shadows, and The Mississippi Review. Recent poems can be found in The Southern Review, Tundra, and The New Hampshire Review, among others.
On the third Thursday of each month, Word of Mouth Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices. Free. Refreshments. Open mike. Outstanding featured readers. In a casual setting. Open to all members of the public and others. For more information, please contact mailto:allwordofmouth@gmail.com or mailto:mcguireschwartz@gmail.com.
Doors Open at 6:30. Open mike at 7:00. Please arrive a few minutes early to sign up for open mike.
The Institute Library
847 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT
Word of Mouth is an affiliate of Arts and Literature Laboratory. Please visit our website at allgallery.org.
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Thursday, August 21 2008
7:00pm - 9:00pm
CURBSTONE PRESS POETRY SERIES
Please join us every third Thursday of each month for a new reading series sponsored by internationally acclaimed Curbstone Press out of Willimantic. Each reading begins at 7:00pm in the galleries.
For more information, please call Curbstone at 860-423-5110.
Hygienic Galleries
79-83 Bank Street
New London, CT
860-443-8001
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Thursday, August 21 2008
7:00pm - 10:00pm
THURSDAY NIGHT POETRY
Open Mike Poetry Reading at Bean & Leaf. Old poets read, new voices heard.
A new venue with “a killer sound system and lots of delicious teas and coffee and pastries.” Visit the website for more information: www.bean-leaf.com.
Bean & Leaf cafe
13 Washington St.
New London, CT
860-701-0000
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Thursday, August 21 2008
7:30pm - 9:00pm
THIRD THURSDAY OPEN MIC
Open mike poetry reading on the third Thursday of every month at the Stamford Borders.
Borders
1041 High Ridge Road (near Merritt Parkway exit 35)
Stamford, CT
Phone: 203-968-9700
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Sunday, August 24 2008
2:00pm - 4:00pm
BEAN & LEAF OPEN MIKE POETRY READING
hosted by Tom Weigel
Old poets read, new voices heard in a new venue with “a killer sound system and lots of delicious teas and coffee and pastries.” Visit the website for more information.
Bean & Leaf Cafe
13 Washington St.
New London, CT
860-701-0000
www.bean-leaf.com
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Monday, August 25 2008
7:00pm
THE LOVE JONES OPEN MIC
Spoken Word and Song event. All poets welcome.
$5.00 cover. Hosted by Darlene Brandon Scott.
The Russell
103 Pratt Street
Hartford, CT
www.therussell.net
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Monday, August 25 2008
9:00pm
BEATNIK 2000
Music and poetry every Monday night, hosted by Ed Leonard. No Cover.
www.cafenine.com/schedule.html
Cafe 9
250 State Street
New Haven, CT
203-789-8281
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Wednesday, August 27 2008
7:30pm
POEMALLEY at Curley’s Diner
Read poetry, discuss writing and other topics of interest.
Curley’s Diner
62 West Park Place
Stamford, CT
203-327-3716
mailto:ayarmal@earthlink.net
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Wednesday, August 27 2008
7:30pm - 10:00pm
WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY SERIES
WNPS, the longest running weekly poetry series in Connecticut, boasts an open mike, feature poets, a Q&A with the feature, and a poetry critique workshop. For info, visit: www.wedpoetry.net.
Molten Java Coffee Roasters, LLC
102 Greenwood Avenue
Bethel, CT
203-739-0313
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Wednesday, August 27 2008
9:30pm - 11:00pm
POETRY NITE at the Huntington Street Café
Poetry Nite every Wednesday at the Huntington Street Café. Run by Sammy and Natalie, it’s open to everyone. Stop by to check the scene or even read a little something. Walk in and you’ll be added to the list.
Email mailto:Pollie_Vack@yahoo.com for info.
Huntington Street Café
90 Huntington Street
Shelton, CT
203-925-9064
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Thursday, August 28 2008
6:00pm
POETRY IN THE PARK 2008
featuring Martín Espada
Sandra Cisneros says: “Martín Espada is the Pablo Neruda of North American authors.” Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published thirteen books in all as a poet, essayist, editor and translator. His eighth collection of poems, The Republic of Poetry, was published by Norton in October, 2006. Of this new collection, Samuel Hazo writes: “Espada unites in these poems the fierce allegiances of Latin American poetry to freedom and glory with the democratic tradition of Whitman, and the result is a poetry of fire and passionate intelligence.” His last book, Alabanza: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2002 (Norton, 2003), received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was named an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year. An earlier collection, Imagine the Angels of Bread (Norton, 1996), won an American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Admission is free. This event is supported by Curbstone Press, Quinebaug Valley Community College’s Multicultural and Programming Committee, and ECSU’s English Department.
Thanks also go to Neighborhood Revitalization Zone and Collectivo Mestizal for their support of the Julia de Burgos Park.
Julia de Burgos Park
319 Jackson St
Willimantic, CT
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Thursday, August 28 2008
7:00pm - 10:00pm
THURSDAY NIGHT POETRY
Open Mike Poetry Reading at Bean & Leaf. Old poets read, new voices heard.
A new venue with “a killer sound system and lots of delicious teas and coffee and pastries.” Visit the website for more information: www.bean-leaf.com.
Bean & Leaf cafe
13 Washington St.
New London, CT
860-701-0000
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Saturday, August 30 2008
7:30pm
ARTSPEAK - A New Open Mike in Simsbury!
Peaberry’s Café of Simsbury is starting Artspeak, a poetry open mike on the fourth Saturday of every month hosted by Rob Dauphinais. We are hoping to generate interest in every corner of CT, so spread the word! The night will begin at 7:30 and go until 9:30, however, if there is an abundance of artists, we will go until 10:00. Our aim is to create an environment where poets of all ages will feel welcome and wanted, as well as challenged. We want this to be an atmosphere where artists can share and network, and, most importantly, grow!
All ages are welcome and we ask that each artist be sensitive to the audience and what may or may not be appropriate. Beyond this request, we want to keep censorship to a minimum, and we support freedom of speech and expression.
Artspeak will feature another experimental element, improvisational jazz. We’re interested in the marriage of poetry and music, words and rhythm. If you are a jazz musician interested in playing, please come! These events will be relatively fluid and open. Our desire is to cultivate a dialogue between the art of words and the art of music.
Peaberry’s Café
712 Hopmeadow Street
Simsbury, CT
860-658-2930
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Sunday, August 31 2008
2:00pm - 4:00pm
BEAN & LEAF OPEN MIKE POETRY READING
hosted by Tom Weigel
Old poets read, new voices heard in a new venue with “a killer sound system and lots of delicious teas and coffee and pastries.” Visit the website for more information.
Bean & Leaf Cafe
13 Washington St.
New London, CT
860-701-0000
www.bean-leaf.com
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