TABLE OF CONTENTS_______________________________________
- Quotes
- Poem of the Month
- Book of the Month
- Website of the Month
- News Items / Writing Workshops
- Poetry Calendar for October
- Subscription and Contact Information
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You don’t make a poem with ideas, but with words.
– Stéphane Mallarmé
A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
– W. H. Auden
I can’t understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It’s like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
– Philip Larkin
II:__POEM OF THE MONTH__________________________________
“Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain,
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
and rise and sink and rise and sink again.
Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
pinned down by need and moaning for release
or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It may well be. I do not think I would.
III:__BOOK OF THE MONTH_________________________________
Each month we highlight a book of poetry by a Connecticut author.
IN VITRO: NEW SHORT RHYMING POEMS POST-9/11
by Leland Jamieson
In Vitro leads the reader to re-experience the often humorous aspirations of youth, on the one hand, and on the other to sense and feel in a palpable and graspable way that advance in awareness we call enlarged consciousness. This generous collection of 88 poems is divided into six sections: “Reprise—Weighing in with Papa,” “Scotsman Prophecy,” “Wood Splitter with Maul and Wedges,” “Astral Wings,” “Stonewalk Journey,” and “Invitation to Negative Space.” The mid-to latter poems often implicitly call into question the unexamined assumptions of a culture we take for granted. To the extent we do, we fail to perceive (even actively deny) what lies beneath our noses to sniff, before our eyes to see, within earshot, and in our hands to grasp. These poems help restore the culture-dazed reader’s sight, hearing, scent, and his or her tactile feeling of connectedness with Mother Earth.
Reviewer Steffen Horstmann called Jamieson’s first book, 21st Century Bread, an “outstanding book... of unusual unity and grace. An all too rare occasion—the release of a volume of formal verse by a new voice. As the reader advances through 21st Century Bread, it is impossible to ignore the powerful accumulation of sounds.”
Noneuclidean Café editor James Swingle wrote, “The Prologue, ‘Needles in a Pinewood’, shows right from the beginning what to expect from this wonderful volume: precisely observed imagery; a poet who confidently uses meter and rhyme; and poems that are expansive, that point to more than they say directly.”
And Oke Mbachu, writing in Contemporary Rhyme, called 21st Century Bread, “a powerhouse commitment to metrical, ear-rhyming verse... memory, insight, worldview, formal and overall poetic know-how leaven this collection to the considerable piece of work that it is.”
$13.95 CreateSpace (ISBN: 1441471219)
IV:__WEBSITE OF THE MONTH______________________________
SONNET CENTRAL
From the site: “Welcome to Sonnet Central, an archive of English [British] sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work”
The sonnets are grouped by eras (“Early Sonnets,” “Elizabethan Sonnets,” “Sonnets of World War I,” etc.) and by geographical area (“Canadian Sonnets,” “Brazilian Sonnets,” “Sonnets from Ireland,” etc.). There are also some rather curious sections, such as “Sonnets about Sonnets” and “Battle of the Sonnets,” where two classic sonnets of similar subject are pitted against one another. Vote!
www.sonnets.org
V:__NEWS ITEMS / WRITING WORKSHOPS____________________
Congratulations to Dick Allen whose recently-published collection, Present Vanishing, received the 2009 Connecticut Book Award in Poetry. The other finalists were Richard Deming for Let's Not Call It Consequence, and Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz for his translation The Odes of Horace.
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Saturday, October 17 2009
11:00am - 2:30pm
Poet Ira Joe Fisher conducts poetry writing workshop. Bring your work in progress. Light lunch included. Register online or call 351-8287. Read your poems at Open Mike November 8.
Main Library Third Floor Auditorium
One Public Library Plaza
Stamford, CT
(Corner of Broad & Bedford Sts.)
Phone: 203-964-1000
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Saturday, October 17 2009
1:00pm - 4:00pm
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
with Eileen Albrizio
An increasingly popular workshop for the developing writer. Eileen brings a wealth of experience to this class. Limited seating! Registration required.
How often have you sat before your writing tablet or computer screen for hours at a time without writing a word? The starts are often the hardest because what we want to write comes to us by way of the abstract, that is, we feel something, so we want to write about it. But emotions are an intangible entity. As writers, it’s our job to take those “feelings” and turn them into something tangible.
In this workshop we will begin by exploring the fundamentals of poetry, including form, meter, rhyme, repetition and metaphor to create a poem in a traditional form. (It’s not nearly as daunting as it may sound.
In fact, it’s quite fun!) “But, POETRY,” you say. “I want to write prose fiction!”
By learning poetic techniques and writing a poem in the structure of form, you will be able to then approach prose, whether fiction or nonfiction, with a more creative and exciting attitude. After writing our poem, we will then use the poetic tools we’ve learned to begin writing that great story locked inside your head. Whether you are a novice or advanced writer, poet or novelist, or looking to pen your memoir, these tools will help you to engage in a more enjoyable and productive writing experience. This is a 3-hour, hands-on writing workshop that will ensure you walk away with new enthusiasm for the writing process. Participants need only bring writing materials. There is no need to bring previously written works. We will, after all, be writing from scratch! Visit my web site: www.angelfire.com/art/albrizio for examples of my work and more. Contact Eileen at EileenRain@aol.com to register.
The Buttonwood Tree
605 Main Street
Middletown, CT
860-347-4957
www.buttonwood.org
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Sunday, October 18 2009
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. Remaining dates for 2009 are 10/18, 11/15, and 12/13. (In October the annual Block Island Writing Retreat will be held from Friday, Oct.2 - Sunday, Oct. 4). The location is Lakeville, CT, at the home of Sharon Charde. See her web site (www.SharonCharde.com) for more information and testimonials from women who have attended in the past. Write her at sharchar@sbcglobal.net to register or to ask other questions.
VI:__POETRY CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER______________________
Thursday, October 1 2009
7:00pm
CURBSTONE PRESS READING SERIES
with Alison Meyers and Reginald Flood
Alison Meyers became Executive Director of Cave Canem Foundation in September 2006. Previously, she directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, a multi-faceted program of Hill-Stead Museum, CT, where she concurrently served as the museum’s Director of Marketing & Communications. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her poems have appeared or will appear in Caduceus II and VII, Connecticut Review, Freshwater Review, Common Ground Review, and Uralpool. www.alisonmeyers.com
Reginald Flood is a native Californian who now lives in a small town in southeastern Connecticut with his wife and two teenagers. His work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South and Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade. He is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the Walker Fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Center. He teaches in the English Department at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Hygienic Art continues its evenings of monthly poetry readings in association with Curbstone Press from Willimantic on the first Thursday of the month. This reading is sponsored by the Robert N. Rue Education Fund at Curbstone Press, established in honor of Dr. Rue, who died in September 2007, honoring his lifelong commitment to education and good writing.
Hygienic Galleries
79-83 Bank Street
New London, CT
860-443-8001
For more information, contact Hygienic Art at 860-443-8001, email gallery@hygienic.org, or visit www.hygienic.org.
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Thursday, October 1 2009
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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Friday, October 2 2009
7:00pm
MICHAEL CERVAS and CHARLOTTE O’HERRON
Westminster English teacher and poet Michael Cervas will be the featured reader at the opening reading on Friday, Oct. 2, and senior Charlotte O’Herron will be the student reader.
Westminster School will host a series of literary readings given by students, teachers and guest writers in the Gund Reading Room of its new Armour Academic Center on six Fridays during the 2009-2010 academic year.
The readings are free and open to the public. They are scheduled for Oct. 2, Nov. 6, Jan. 22, Feb. 26, April 16 and May 21. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the readings and ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to the Armour Academic Center .
Anyone wishing additional information about the reading series should contact Michael Cervas at 860-784-1865.
Gund Reading Room
Armour Academic Center
Westminster School
995 Hopmeadow Street
Simsbury, CT
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Saturday, October 3 2009
12:00pm - 6:30pm
ART IN THE CITY
with Reggie Marra, Victoria Rivas, and Ernie Blue
Postponed to October 10. See the details below at the entry on the 10th.
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Sunday, October 4 2009
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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Sunday, October 4 2009
2:00pm - 4:00pm
ALEXANDRINA SERGIO
Inaugural Reading from My Daughter is Drummer in the Rock ’n Roll Band (Antrim House) by Alexandrina Sergio. This recently-released first poetry collection has been described by Doug Anderson as “vigorous and celebratory in the tradition of E.E. Cummings.” In addition to the poetry reading there will be a reception, book signing and music. Sandy Sergio’s work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies and has been twice performed by a professional stage company. Awards include first place in the 2007 Connecticut Senior Poetry contest and second place in the 2008 Dorman John Grace Contest (NFSPS). The public is invited.
Welles Turner Memorial Library
2407 Main Street
Glastonbury, CT
860-652-7719
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Sunday, October 4 2009
4:00pm
SUNDAYS BY THE RIVER
featuring FRLAC Workshop Poets
FRLAC Workshop Poets: Geri Radacsi, Ray DeRham, Cathy Fiorello, Julia Paul, Jane Hikel and Sherri Bedingfield. Open Mike follows.
Admission: $10.00/session. Free for Open Mike.
Millrace Book Shop
40 Mill Lane
Farmington, CT
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Sunday, October 4 2009
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 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. Pass this along to anyone you think might be interested in being part of this discussion group. This is a different type of poetry event. Instead of a particular feature or an open mike where we read our own poetry, this is a gathering to read aloud some of your favorite poems - those not written by you. In a way, it’s like a poetry salon, a sharing of the poetic intellect. We’ve called it a “Poetry Potluck” because whoever comes will bring something different to it. (There will be foodstuffs of cookies and hot drinks available.)
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Monday, October 5 2009
7:00pm
THE LOVE JONES EXPERIENCE
Poetry & Jam Session. Bring your poems and instruments to our spoken word and song event.
All poets welcome. Amateurs welcome and encouraged to perform.
$5.00 cover. Hosted by Darlene Brandon Scott.
The Russell
103 Pratt Street
Hartford, CT
www.therussellct.com
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Monday, October 5 2009
7:00pm
TONY FUSCO AND LISA SEIDLARZ
Poets Tony Fusco and Lisa Seidlarz will read from their recently-published collections! Both are Southern graduates. Lisa is editor of the Connecticut River Review and is working on her MFA at Western CT. State, and Tony is president of the CT Poetry Society.
The Common Room
Engleman Hall D253
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street
New Haven, CT
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Monday, October 5 2009
7:30pm
ANYTHING GOES!
An open mike with J-Cherry
Anything goes for this open mike - spoken word, poetry, etc. BYO instrument or play our congas or piano. Warm, casual and friendly group offers encouragement and an ongoing sign-up list. Refreshments available. Happens every Monday!
7:30pm sign up; 8:00pm start. $3.00 suggested donation - give what you can.
The Buttonwood Tree
605 Main Street
Middletown, CT
860-347-4957
thebuttonwoodtree@gmail.com
www.buttonwood.org
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Monday, October 5 2009
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 October 5 2009
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, October 6 2009
7:00pm - 9:00pm
FIRST TUESDAY POETRY
featuring Kathryn Kelly
In the Celtic tradition of storytelling, Kathryn’s poems shape themselves as narrative pieces reflecting her connection to family and the world around her. Kathryn currently teaches English in Portland, CT, where she also runs a creative writing program for middle and high school students. She has taught poetry workshops in schools throughout the state, and has been an invited poet to facilitate workshops with the Litchfield Performing Arts’ Project Poetry Live! Her work has appeared in a variety of journals, including The Helix and NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English). She is a member of The Random Meetinghouse Poets.
Come help us welcome Kathryn Kelly to the store and share some of your own work too!
On the first Tuesday of every month, Broad Street Books hosts a featured poet followed by an open mike. All are welcome to come and read, recite, perform their work! Admission is free.
45 Broad Street
Middletown, CT
Broad Street Books
For more information, contact Brian Mitchard at 860-685-7323
Before the reading, tune in to “J-Cherry Presents” at 6:30pm on 88.1 FM WESU in Middletown to hear J-Cherry host our featured poet.
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Tuesday, October 6 2009
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
ayarmal@earthlink.net
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Wednesday, October 7 2009
6:00pm
CONFLUENCE
CONFLUENCIA
CONFLUENZA ... a community gathering to share the experiences of different cultures via the written word.
featuring Baub Bidon, Susan Charde, David K. Leff, Victoria Muñoz, and Tom Nicotera
The evening begins with a Musical Prelude with Featured Ensemble, Richard Gard, D.M.A., Associate Professor of Music at Naugatuck Valley Community College.
Feature readers are:
Baub Bidon, is a multi talented poet, actor, writer, playwright and visual artist. His body of work chronicles the afro-urban lifestyle. He echoes the outcry of men, women and children stemming from abuse, rape, injustice and inequalities of the judicial, education and employment system. Baub’s poetry is the voice of the unheard catapulted to ears of those who refuse to listen.
Susan Charde, a retired family therapist, is a writing teacher who has won six Pushcart nominations, edited and published an anthology of poetry, I Am Not A Juvenile Delinquent, won first prize in the Flume Press 2005 chapbook competition, and published Bad Girl At The Altar Rail and Four Trees Down From Ponte Sisto. Backwaters Press published her full-length collection, Branch In His Hand, in 2008.
David K. Leff, a freelance writer from Collinsville, Connecticut, has had his essays and fiction published in newspapers and magazines. His nonfiction book, The Last Undiscovered Place, published by the University of Virginia Press in 2004, deals with the relationship of people to their community and landscape and was a Connecticut Book Award finalist.
Victoria Muñoz is a graduate of Western Illinois University with a B.A. in music. She is a singer/songwriter and poet who has performed throughout western Connecticut, and elsewhere. She is inspired from the world around her as well as influences that stem from both her parents. She has featured her poetry on the East coast including places such as York Arts Festival (PA), Jester’s Café (MA), and Bethel Arts Junction.
Tom Nicotera has been writing poetry since his days as a college physics major. He has been a factory worker, street performer, mime, water/sewer repairman, copy editor and teacher. He is a founding member of Second Wind Poetry Group, ran the Takoma Cafe Poetry Series in Maryland, taught at Georgetown University, organized the poetry series at Susan’s Cafe in Granby, CT, and is currently co-host of Bloomfield Library’s Wintonbury Poetry Series.
Students, public, faculty & staff invited! The program is free of charge. Reservations are required. Please call 203-575-8044 or 8083 to reserve your seat. Deadline for reservations is Tuesday, October 6, at noon.
Visit www.nvcc.commnet.edu/confluencia for more information.
Playbox Theater
Naugatuck Valley Community College
750 Chase Parkway
Waterbury, CT
www.nvcc.commnet.edu
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Wednesday, October 7 2009
6:30pm
JEANS SANDS and JIM KELLEHER at Harwinton Library
Harwinton poet Jean Sands and Jim Kelleher of Goshen will read and sign books at the Library. Both poets are widely published.
Jean Sands will read from her recently released collection, Gandy Dancing. She is a journalist, reviewer, and correspondent whose interviews, essays and feature articles have earned her a Pushcart Prize nomination and appearances in the Register Citizen, The Litchfield County Mom, and Scholastic Corporation’s Web Site. Jean has taught poetry and creative writing to adults throughout northwest Connecticut for over 30 years.
Jim Kelleher will read from his first full-length collection, Quarry. Jim Kelleher is an adjunct professor of English at Northwestern Connecticut Community College as well as a poet. Jim has been writing poems for 30 years and his work has been published in Yankee Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Litchfield County Times.
Copies of the poets work will be available for purchase and signing. Come join us for an enjoyable evening of poetry and discussion with these talented and engaging writers. Please register.
Harwinton Public Library
80 Bentley Drive
Harwinton, CT
For information call the Harwinton library at 860-485-9113.
www.harwintonpl.org/news.htm
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Wednesday, October 7 2009
7:30pm - 10:00pm
WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY SERIES
featuring Matthew Hupert
Matthew is a multi-media artist, a writer, and that rarest of birds—the native new-yorker. He is the Founder of the Neuronautic Institute, Chairman of The NALF (New Amsterdam Liberation Front, which is dedicated to returning New York City back to the Dutch) and president of the Norman Bates School of Motel Management. He believes the primary role of the Artist is to be the stick that your Zen master smacks you in the head with. His poetry has been published in The Formalist, the Dadaist journal Maintenant3, and the Anthology 150 contemporary sonnets. He has self published 4 chapbooks, and has a major book publication coming—that is as soon as one of you publishers get off your ass and approach him. Poetry blog: neuronautic.blogspot.com.
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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Thursday, October 8 2009
12:20pm
COLE SWENSEN
Cole Swensen poetry reading at Yale
In conjunction with the exhibition Continuous Present. Contact: 203-432-0600
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT
For additional information on readings at Yale: beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/readings-at-yale-university
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Thursday, October 8 2009
7:00pm
THE GUILFORD POETS GUILD
presents Gray Jacobik.
Gray Jacobik lives in Deep River, Connecticut. Her collections include Brave Disguises (AWP Poetry Prize, Pittsburgh UP 2002), The Surface of Last Scattering (X. J. Kennedy Prize, Texas Review Press 1999) and The Double Task (Juniper Prize, UMASS Press, 1998). A memoir-in-verse, Little Boy Blue, is forthcoming for CavanKerry.
Admission is free and open to the public. There will be an open mike beginning at 7:00 for the first 5 who sign up. Refreshments will be served. The reading is part of the Guilford Poets Guild Second Thursday Poetry Series.
The Greene Art Gallery
(Red barn behind Whitfield’s Cafe)
29 Whitfield St.
Guilford, CT
Contact: 203-453-2036, 203-453-8836
guilfordpoetsguild.wordpress.com
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Thursday, October 8 2009
7:00pm
MISHI-MAYA-GAT Spoken Word & Music Series
presents Asnuntuck Community College English Department Featured Reading, with John Sheirer, Edwina Trentham, and Elizabeth Szewczyk
7:00pm - Featured Musician: Bob Jordan, singer, guitarist & songwriter.
8:00pm - Featured Poets: Marshall Brooks, publisher & writer and Marilyn Johnston, poet.
Marshall Brooks has been involved in literary publishing for 40 years and has published work in numerous publications, including The Boston Globe, Worcester Telegram, New York Times, and the Generalist Papers. He the author of A Brief Illustrated History of the Bookshelf and edited and wrote the introduction to The Romance of the Book, which encompasses a selection of essays on books and the reading experience. In 1979, Brooks established Arts End Books (www.artsendbooks.com). Since 1999, Arts End Books has also been the sole distributor of the pioneering, independent, NYC-based book publisher, The Smith. More information on Brooks can be found at: www.marshallbrooks.com. His Mishi-maya-gat presentation is entitled, “Talking about Books in the 21st Century: Strategies & Anecdotes for Bibliophiles.”
Marilyn Johnston received an M.A. in English from Trinity College and for many years pursued a career in insurance communications, a career that she abandoned in order to concentrate on the writing of poetry. In the past decade, her work has received five Pushcart Prize nominations and has appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Worcester Review, Atlanta Review, South Carolina Review, and Poet Lore. She is the author of two full collections of poetry: Silk Fist Songs (Antrim House Books, 2008) and Weight of the Angel (forthcoming, Antrim House). More information on these titles can be found at: www.antrimhousebooks.com. Her chapbook, Against Disappearance, was published as a finalist for the 2001 Redgreene Press Poetry Prize. She also directs the Wintonbury Branch Poetry Series and Open Mike in Bloomfield.
Readings on the 2nd Thursday of each month. Free and Open to the Public.
Sponsored by the MCC Foundation. Hosted by Stephen Campiglio.
Fireside Commons, Learning Resource Center
Manchester Community College
Great Path
Manchester, CT
For more information or directions, please visit the Mishi-maya-gat web page at www.mcc.commnet.edu.
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Thursday, October 8 2009
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, October 10 2009
12:00pm - 6:30pm
ART IN THE CITY
with Reggie Marra, Victoria Rivas, and Ernie Blue
Greystone Arts presents “Art in the City.” The First Annual Event on October 3, 12:00pm - 6:30 (rain date Oct. 10)
Music and poetry while painters participate in a Pleine Aire event and Live Art wall. Come support art in the city and participate. Bring your lawn chairs, drums and paint brushes! All events on the Waterbury Green, Waterbury, CT.
12:00pm - Johnny B - acoustic folk guitar
1:00pm - Reggie Marra - Poet
1:30pm - Victoria Muñoz & Dan Stevens -Classical Flute and Guitar
2:30pm - Victoria Rivas - poet
3:00pm - River Road Band (set 1) - acoustic/folk/americana with Eric Paradine, Robert Scalla, Richard Lee
3:45pm - Ernie Blue - poet
4:15pm - River Road (Set 2)
5:00pm - Emcee Elvee - spoken word
5:30pm - Sounds of Afrika - community drum circle (drums will be provided first come first serve, or bring your own drum)
Find more information on this event at liveart.freightstreetgallery.com or Greystone Arts on Facebook.
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Saturday, October 10 2009
6:00pm - 9:00pm
OPEN MIC NIGHTS at Bru Cafe
Hosted by Baub Bidon
Music DJ Ccoubz
Admission: “Just buy something to eat.”
Second Saturday of each month.
Bru Cafe
141 Orange Street
New Haven, CT
203-752-0052
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Sunday, October 11 2009
2:00pm
POETRY ON THE LINE SERIES at the Windsor Art Center
featuring Rennie McQuilkin and Marilyn Johnston
Marilyn Johnston and Rennie McQuilkin will read from their new books in an event entitled "After The Fall."
This will be the first event in a new poetry series occurring in the old, now beautifully renovated Freight House of the Windsor Depot. Refreshments and conversation after the reading. For directions see www.windsorartcenter.org and for additional information 860-688-2528 or email info@windsorartcenter.org.
Free. Tea and more will be served after the reading.
Windsor Arts Center
40 Mechanic St.
Windsor, CT
Made possible through a grant from the Greater Hartford Arts Council
Marilyn E. Johnston has an MA in English from Trinity College. In the past decade, her work has received five Pushcart Prize nominations and has appeared in numerous literary journals including The Worcester Review, Atlanta Review, South Carolina Review, and Poet Lore. Her chapbook Against Disappearance was published as finalist for the 2001 Redgreene Press Poetry Prize, and she has two full-length collection, Silk Fist Songs and Weight of the Angel. She also directs a poetry series the Bloomfield Public Library
Rennie McQuilkin’s poetry has been published by The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The American Scholar, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Crazyhorse, and other journals. He is the author of ten poetry collections, two of which have won awards, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the State of Connecticut. For many years he directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT, and subsequently founded Antrim House Books, which publishes the work of Northeastern poets. In 2003 he received the Connecticut Center for the Book’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Sunday, October 11 2009
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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Sunday, October 11 2009
4:00pm
SUNDAYS BY THE RIVER
featuring Doug Anderson
Featuring Doug Anderson, author of Keep Your Head Down, and the award-winning poetry collection, The Moon Reflected Fire. Open Mike follows.
Admission: $10.00/session. Free for Open Mike.
Millrace Book Shop
40 Mill Lane
Farmington, CT
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Monday, October 12 2009
7:00pm
THE LOVE JONES EXPERIENCE
Poetry & Jam Session. Bring your poems and instruments to our spoken word and song event.
All poets welcome. Amateurs welcome and encouraged to perform.
$5.00 cover. Hosted by Darlene Brandon Scott.
The Russell
103 Pratt Street
Hartford, CT
www.therussellct.com
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Monday, October 12 2009
7:15pm
MONDAY NIGHT POETRY in STAMFORD
featuring Paula Panzarella
Paula Panzarella, a New Haven resident, performance poet, and member of the Connecticut women’s poetry collective Artemis Rising, will be sharing her work. Come listen in and feel free to share your own work.
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, October 12 2009
7:30pm
ANYTHING GOES!
An open mike with J-Cherry
Anything goes for this open mike - spoken word, poetry, etc. BYO instrument or play our congas or piano. Warm, casual and friendly group offers encouragement and an ongoing sign-up list. Refreshments available. Happens every Monday!
7:30pm sign up; 8:00pm start. $3.00 suggested donation - give what you can.
The Buttonwood Tree
605 Main Street
Middletown, CT
860-347-4957
thebuttonwoodtree@gmail.com
www.buttonwood.org
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Monday, October 12 2009
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 October 12 2009
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, October 13 2009
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
ayarmal@earthlink.net
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Wednesday, October 14 2009
4:00pm
BILL BERKSON at UConn
Bill Berkson is a poet, curator, editor and art critic and a professor at the San Francisco Art Institute. The Dodd Research Center holds the comprehensive archive of Berkson’s papers, including literary manuscripts, letters, records of his small press Big Sky, photographs, broadsides, and rare publications. The archive spans from 1960 to the present day and documents the poet’s remarkable body of work, his collaborations in and among the realms of visual art, media, and literature, and his affinities with poets and poetics of the New York School.
Berkson’s recent books of poetry include Gloria, Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently, and Goods and Services. Other books include a collection of his criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings: 1985-2003; Sudden Address: Selected lectures 1981-2006; and an epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer entitled What’s Your Idea of a Good Time?: Interviews & Letters 1977-1985. His Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems appeared from Coffee House Press in early 2009. Berkson was the 2006 Distinguished Mellon Fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received the 2008 Goldie for Literature from the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Berkson entered the worlds of art and literature in his late teens, and during the 1960s worked in various capacities at Artnews, the Museum of Modern Art, and as associate producer of a show on art for public television. He moved to northern California in 1970 and during the next decade edited a series of little magazines and books under the Big Sky imprint. He now lives in San Francisco and New York.
The event is free and open to the public. Students, faculty and staff are welcome. An exhibit of materials from the Berkson papers will be on display. Refreshments immediately following.
McDonald Reading Room
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
Univ. of Conn
Storrs, CT
generalbooks.bookstore.uconn.edu/event/bill-berkson-poetry-reading
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Wednesday, October 14 2009
6:30pm - 8:30pm
CALLING ALL POETS (And Poetry Lovers)
presents Jeanne L. Lakatos
Jeanne L. Lakatos is a theorist and adjunct professor in the English and Writing, Linguistics and Creative Process Departments at Western Connecticut State University. Her work has been published in the National Science Teachers Association Journal and Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. Ms. Lakatos has conducted numerous workshops for WestConns’s tutoring Resource Center and has written it’s Tutor Handbook. She also serves on the administration and English teaching team for the summer International Studies program.
Her doctoral research focuses on semiotics, iconic realism and sociolinguistics. She will discuss her new text, The Theory of Iconic Realism:Understanding the Arts Through Cultural Context, published by the Edwin Mellen Press.
Admission is free. The open mike sign-up is at 6:15pm. There will be time to meet the poet and book signing after the open mike. Open mike theme: Classic Poetry.
“Calling All Poets” is hosted by Victoria Muñoz.
The Silas Bronson Library
267 Grand Street
Waterbury, CT
203-574-8223
www.bronsonlibrary.org
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Wednesday, October 14 2009
7:00pm
INESCAPABLE RHYTHMS
featuring C.S. Carrier
C.S. Carrier will read from his book, After Dayton, and new poems.
“Inescapable Rhythms,” a poetry reading and open mike series, takes place on the second Wednesday of each month. A featured poet gives a half hour reading (7:00pm) followed by an open mike (7:30pm), in which members of the audience are invited to share their work.
The series takes its title from the Wallace Stevens poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” Stevens, a major American Modernist poet, was a Hartford resident.
Real Art Ways
56 Arbor St.
Hartford CT
www.realartways.org
Email questions to: ahenchey@hotmail.com
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Wednesday, October 14 2009
7:30pm - 10:00pm
WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY SERIES
featuring John Jeffrey
John Jeffrey, a former host of Wednesday Night Poetry, is the current editor of the CT Poet Newsletter. His fiction and poetry have appeared in journals such as The Fairfield Review, Bent Pin Quarterly, and the Connecticut River Review, among others, and he has read at numerous venues around CT and NY. Years ago, John earned a double degree in writing and literature, but he has spent his adult life trying to unlearn what he was taught.
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, October 14 2009
8:00pm
BERNADETTE MAYER at Wesleyan
Bernadette Mayer, acclaimed poet, and a key Figure in New York Poetry Scene Reads at Wesleyan. Mayer’s poetry has been praised by John Ashbery as “magnificent.” Brenda Coultas calls her a master of “devastating wit.” Mayer is the author of more than two dozen volumes of poetry, including Midwinter Day, Sonnets, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, and Poetry State Forest. A former director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery and co-editor of the conceptual magazine 0 to 9 with Vito Acconci, Mayer has been a key figure on the New York poetry scene for decades.
Russell House
Wesleyan University
350 High Street
Middletown CT
For more information contact Jessica Posner, Russell House Arts Fellow, at 860-685-3448.
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Wednesday, October 14 2009
9:00pm
POETZ REALM
Poetz Realm is not just a physical location where artists can get together and share in their artistry. Poetz Realm also provides web services such as a social networking community which allows it’s members to network, upload videos, pictures , music, chat, post poetry, written work and much more. Whether it be in the form of spoken word, poetry, and emceeing, singing or simply verbal expression, Poetz Realm is the place to be.
Poetz Realm meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month. Admission is $5.00 for regular patrons and free for whomever signs up for the open mike. There is a feature for each show. Features have included: Ngoma, Fredrick Douglas, Mo Jarvis, Baub Bidon, E da Storyteller, Shanna Melton, Kamal Imani, Influence, Ainsley Burrows, and many others. “Let Your Voice Be Heard!”
Hosted by Ernel Grant, Founder/CEO
Bridgeport Innovation Center
Gallery 1212
955 Connecticut Ave
Bridgeport, CT. 06607
www.poetzrealm.com
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Thursday, October 15 2009
6:30pm
WORD OF MOUTH POETRY SERIES
Kate Rushin is the author of The Black Back-Ups (Firebrand Books). Her “The Bridge Poem” appears in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, a ground-breaking feminist anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Recipient of the Rose Low Rome Memorial Poetry Prize and the Grolier Poetry Prize, her work is widely anthologized and has been published in such journals as Callaloo.
A Connecticut resident, Kate currently teaches creative writing at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. Previously, she taught at Wesleyan University, where she served as Director of the Center of African-American Studies, Associate Professor and Visiting Writer. She has read at Hill-Stead Museum’s Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, the Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival and Smith College Poetry Center, among many other places, and has led workshops for the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and Cave Canem Foundation. She has served as a judge for the Connecticut State University-IMPAC Young Writers Award, the Connecticut Poetry Circuit Student Poetry Contest, and the NEA’s/Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Out Loud.
Kate received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her M.F.A. from Brown University. She is a former Fellow of The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a graduate fellow of Cave Canem Foundation.
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 allwordofmouth@gmail.com or 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 http://sites.google.com/site/wordofmouthpoetryseries/Home.
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Thursday, October 15 2009
7:00pm
WINTONBURY BRANCH POETRY SERIES
featuring Dick Allen
Wintonbury Branch Poetry Series kicks off with nationally-celebrated poet, Dick Allen. The author of seven volumes of poetry, Allen has garnered many honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts Award. His recently-published collection, Present Vanishing, received the 2009 Connecticut Book Award in Poetry.
An open mike follows the featured poet.
Free admission, refreshments included. Watch for announcements of “theme” nights for our open mike sessions. For more information, please call the Wintonbury Branch at 860-242-0041.
Wintonbury Branch Library
1015 Blue Hills Avenue
Bloomfield, CT
www.prosserlibrary.info/wintonbury_branch.htm
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Thursday, October 15 2009
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, October 15 2009
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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Friday, October 16 2009
7:00pm
MYSTIC ARTS CAFÉ
featuring Marie Howe
The Arts Cafe will feature the extraordinary Marie Howe making her debut at our podium. Howe’s work has won the National Poetry Series and the Lavan Younger Poetry Prize from the American Academy of Poets. She will read from her latest book of poems, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, about which Eve Ensler has observed “This is the poetry of our times, a guide to living on the brink of the mystical and the mundane.”
Mystic Arts Café is an eclectic series featuring nationally renowned poets. The doors open at 7:00pm, reading begins at 7:30pm. Admission - $8, Seniors - $6, Students $4.
Mystic Arts Center
9 Water Street
Mystic, CT
860-536-5680
www.mysticarts.org/events.html
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Sunday, October 18 2009
2:00pm
NORAH POLLARD at Stratford Library
Norah Pollard will give the inaugural reading from her new book, Death & Rapture in the Animal Kingdom for the Stratford Library's special “Meet-the-Author” program. It is free and open to the public.
Stratford resident Norah Pollard lives by the Housatonic River, which keeps her afloat spiritually; works by day at a Bridgeport steel company, which keeps her grounded; and shares the spirit of her father, legendary jockey Red Pollard, which keeps her flying on Pegasus just as he flew on Seabiscuit. At various points in her life she has been a folk-singer, seam-stitcher, nanny, teacher, solderer and print shop calligrapher. She received the Academy of American Poets Prize from the University of Bridgeport and for several years edited The Connecticut River Review. Pollard’s three poetry collections (Leaning In, Report from the Banana Hospital, and Death & Rapture in the Animal Kingdom) were published in 2003, 2005, and 2009. She has had a life-long passion for the visual arts, which she has put to good use as an editor-designer and illustrator.
Stratford Public Library
2203 Main St.
Stratford , CT
For information: tom@stratford.lib.ct.us or 203-385-4164
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Sunday, October 18 2009
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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Sunday, October 18 2009
2:00pm - 4:00pm
CT POETRY SOCIETY WINE & CHEESE READING
The program feature is “Three Faces of the Poet!” which will be followed by an open microphone.
The Connecticut Poetry will provide the wine, cheese and crackers, additional snacks can be purchased from The Buttonwood. The event is free for members of CPS, $5.00 for non-members; if you are not a member you can join at this event for the remainder of this year at a reduced rate. Donations will also be accepted for the CT Food Bank. There will be a special guest on the program and open microphone reading.
The Buttonwood Tree
605 Main Street
Middletown, CT
860-347-4957
thebuttonwoodtree@gmail.com
www.buttonwood.org
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Sunday, October 18 2009
4:00pm
SUNDAYS BY THE RIVER
featuring Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson, CT Poet Laureate 2002-2006 and author of Fortune’s Bones, Carver, The Freedom Business, Emmet Till, and others. Open Mike follows.
Admission: $10.00/session. Free for Open Mike.
Millrace Book Shop
40 Mill Lane
Farmington, CT
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Monday, October 19 2008
5:00pm - 7:00pm
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: dmh2000@sbcglobal.net
Danbury Library
Upstairs Conference Room
170 Main Street
Danbury, CT
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Monday, October 19 2009
7:00pm
THE LOVE JONES EXPERIENCE
Poetry & Jam Session. Bring your poems and instruments to our spoken word and song event.
All poets welcome. Amateurs welcome and encouraged to perform.
$5.00 cover. Hosted by Darlene Brandon Scott.
The Russell
103 Pratt Street
Hartford, CT
www.therussellct.com
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Monday, October 19 2009
7:00pm
MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN at Southern Connecticut State University
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit's 2009 Touring Poet
Maria Mazziotti Gillan has published numerous books of poetry, including The Weather of Old Seasons, Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and Italian Women in Black Dresses. Her most recent work, All That Lies Between Us, received the 2008 American Book Award in Poetry. Additionally, she is co-editor with her daughter Jennifer of several anthologies that have invigorated our understanding of the diversity of poetry in America: Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, Growing Up Ethnic in America, and Italian-American Writers on New Jersey.
She is the editor of the Paterson Literary Review, founder and the Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and is also the Director of the Creative Writing Program and a Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-State University of New York.
Maria has won the the Sheila Motton Award, May Sarton Award, the Fearing Houghton Award, the Pietro di Donato Award, the Aniello Lauri Award, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, and the American Literary Translators Association Award through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit was established in 1968 to continue the work of the New England Poetry Circuit, which was established in 1964 at the request of the Academy of American Poets. The work of the circuit is guided by a panel of poets: Dick Allen, Clare Rossini, Kate Rushin, and Vivian Shipley. Each year the panel nominates outstanding poets, from which one is chosen.
The Common Room
Engleman HAll D253
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street
New Haven, CT
www.southernct.edu/events
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Monday, October 19 2009
7:30pm
ANYTHING GOES!
An open mike with J-Cherry
Anything goes for this open mike - spoken word, poetry, etc. BYO instrument or play our congas or piano. Warm, casual and friendly group offers encouragement and an ongoing sign-up list. Refreshments available. Happens every Monday!
7:30pm sign up; 8:00pm start. $3.00 suggested donation - give what you can.
The Buttonwood Tree
605 Main Street
Middletown, CT
860-347-4957
thebuttonwoodtree@gmail.com
www.buttonwood.org
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Monday, October 19 2009
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, October 20 2009
12:30pm - 1:30pm
MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN at Middlesex Community College
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit's 2009 Touring Poet
Maria Mazziotti Gillan has published numerous books of poetry, including The Weather of Old Seasons, Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and Italian Women in Black Dresses. Her most recent work, All That Lies Between Us, received the 2008 American Book Award in Poetry. Additionally, she is co-editor with her daughter Jennifer of several anthologies that have invigorated our understanding of the diversity of poetry in America: Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, Growing Up Ethnic in America, and Italian-American Writers on New Jersey.
She is the editor of the Paterson Literary Review, founder and the Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and is also the Director of the Creative Writing Program and a Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-State University of New York.
Maria has won the the Sheila Motton Award, May Sarton Award, the Fearing Houghton Award, the Pietro di Donato Award, the Aniello Lauri Award, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, and the American Literary Translators Association Award through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit was established in 1968 to continue the work of the New England Poetry Circuit, which was established in 1964 at the request of the Academy of American Poets. The work of the circuit is guided by a panel of poets: Dick Allen, Clare Rossini, Kate Rushin, and Vivian Shipley. Each year the panel nominates outstanding poets, from which one is chosen.
Light refreshments will be served.
Student Lounge, Founders Hall
Middlesex Community College
100 Training Hill Road
Middletown, CT
www.mxcc.commnet.edu/Events
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Tuesday, October 20 2009
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
ayarmal@earthlink.net
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Wednesday, October 21 2009
3:00pm - 5:00pm
MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN at Central Connecticut State University
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit's 2009 Touring Poet
Maria Mazziotti Gillan has published numerous books of poetry, including The Weather of Old Seasons, Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and Italian Women in Black Dresses. Her most recent work, All That Lies Between Us, received the 2008 American Book Award in Poetry. Additionally, she is co-editor with her daughter Jennifer of several anthologies that have invigorated our understanding of the diversity of poetry in America: Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, Growing Up Ethnic in America, and Italian-American Writers on New Jersey.
She is the editor of the Paterson Literary Review, founder and the Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and is also the Director of the Creative Writing Program and a Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-State University of New York.
Maria has won the the Sheila Motton Award, May Sarton Award, the Fearing Houghton Award, the Pietro di Donato Award, the Aniello Lauri Award, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, and the American Literary Translators Association Award through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit was established in 1968 to continue the work of the New England Poetry Circuit, which was established in 1964 at the request of the Academy of American Poets. The work of the circuit is guided by a panel of poets: Dick Allen, Clare Rossini, Kate Rushin, and Vivian Shipley. Each year the panel nominates outstanding poets, from which one is chosen.
Room 105
Vance Academic Center
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT
Contact: Ravi Shankar - shankarr@ccsu.edu
today.ccsu.edu/MasterCalendar
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Wednesday, October 21 2009
7:30pm - 10:00pm
WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY SERIES
featuring David K. Leff
David K. Leff, who retired in 2006 after years as a Deputy Commissioner with the state Department of Environmental Protection, is author of The Last Undiscovered Place, which was a Connecticut Book Award finalist. He also wrote Deep Travel, and a volume of poetry, The Price of Water. He is a freelance writer, a member of the Hartford Courant Place Board of Contributors and is a columnist for The Valley News, a local weekly.
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, October 21 2009
8:00pm
MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN at Manchester Community College
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit's 2009 Touring Poet
Maria Mazziotti Gillan has published numerous books of poetry, including The Weather of Old Seasons, Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and Italian Women in Black Dresses. Her most recent work, All That Lies Between Us, received the 2008 American Book Award in Poetry. Additionally, she is co-editor with her daughter Jennifer of several anthologies that have invigorated our understanding of the diversity of poetry in America: Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, Growing Up Ethnic in America, and Italian-American Writers on New Jersey.
She is the editor of the Paterson Literary Review, founder and the Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and is also the Director of the Creative Writing Program and a Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-State University of New York.
Maria has won the the Sheila Motton Award, May Sarton Award, the Fearing Houghton Award, the Pietro di Donato Award, the Aniello Lauri Award, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, and the American Literary Translators Association Award through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit was established in 1968 to continue the work of the New England Poetry Circuit, which was established in 1964 at the request of the Academy of American Poets. The work of the circuit is guided by a panel of poets: Dick Allen, Clare Rossini, Kate Rushin, and Vivian Shipley. Each year the panel nominates outstanding poets, from which one is chosen.
Community Commons
Great Path Academy
Manchester Community College
Great Path
Manchester, CT
Contact: Steve Straight - sstraight@mcc.commnet.edu or 860-512-6255
www.mcc.commnet.edu/events
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Thursday, October 22 2009
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, October 22 2009
7:00pm - 10:00pm
JACK McCARTHY at Buttonwood
“Stand-Up Poet” Jack McCarthy was born in Massachusetts and now lives in Seattle, Washington. He began writing poetry in the 1960s, but did not begin performing his works for audiences until the 1990s. It was then that he was introduced to slam poetry at the Cantab Lounge in Boston, Massachusetts, after intending to get his daughter interested in the artform. McCarthy has described his performance style as “stand-up poetry,” or that he is a “stand-up poet,” in that the work he does on stage is not subject to a specific regimen of poetic style, but is loose enough in form to be humorous and performed in a manner similar to that of stand-up comedy. He was awarded “Best Standup Poet” by the Boston Phoenix in the 1990s. His storytelling and humor are well regarded within the performance poetry community. His work is funny, serious and heart wrenching. Visit www.standupoet.net.
While Jack McCarthy calls himself a “standup poetry guy,” others have called him a “legend.” Poet Stephen Dobyns calls him, “one of the wonders of contemporary poetry.” And the Boston Globe said, “In the poetry world, he’s a rock star.”
This is a rare CT appearance. Don’t miss the performance!
There will also be an open mike. $5.00 donation.
The Buttonwood Tree
605 Main Street
Middletown, CT
860-347-4957
thebuttonwoodtree@gmail.com
www.buttonwood.org
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Friday, October 23 2009
1:00pm
POETRY DISCUSSION GROUP
discusses Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy.
A once-a-month poetry discussion, which take place on the third Friday of the month at 1:00pm. Each month a different poet’s work will be up for discussion. New members always welcome.
A limited number of free copies of the book to be discussed will be available for approximately one month before the meeting. See the library’s Circulation Desk. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Location: Dayton Program Room
Ridgefield Library
472 Main Street (Route 35)
Ridgefield, CT
203-438-2282 or
rdgprograms@biblio.org
www.ridgefieldlibrary.org
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Friday, October 23 2009
7:00pm
OPEN MIKE NIGHT at RJ JULIA
Come read from your newest short story, poem, or essay and feel the rush of taking your work public. All we ask in return? That you limit your time to 5-8 minutes, and that you come prepared to be impressed! Please reserve your spot at the Information counter or at www.rjjulia.com.
RJ Julia Booksellers
768 Boston Post Road
Madison, CT
203-245-3959
books@rjjulia.com
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Friday, October 23 2009
7:00pm
ASHFORD AT NIGHT
New venue
Announcing: Ashford at Night, coffee house style open mike nights! We welcome poets, musicians, artists and more. The nights will start at 7:00pm with a host band (Jeffrey Garden, Rob Dauphinais, and John Boiano playing jazz and world fusion), after which the mike will open up to everyone. Musicians will be on-hand to accompany you or you may choose to perform alone or with your friends. A sign-up to perform list will be on a first come, first up basis. We will end the night with the host band and others who came to play/perform in a BIG jam!
Coffee, tea, water, soft drinks and snacks will be available for purchase at a reasonable price. Since these are family friendly events, we ask that profanity and adult subject matter in performances be curbed for the evening.
Requested donation is $2.00 per musician, $3.00 per spectator, and a $10.00 family maximum. No money? Please see us at the door.
Knowlton Hall
Ashford Library
25 Pompey Hollow Road (Rt. 44)
Ashford, CT
(in-between the Town Hall and Cumberland Farms)
Hosted by the Ashford Park & Rec. Department
Contact info: Park & Rec Commissioner, John Boiano, 860-798-5692
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Saturday, October 24 2009
7:00pm (doors open a 6:30pm)
POETRY SALON En Masque
The poetry event of the season!
Oscar Wilde said, “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” So disguise yourself as your favorite literary character, author, or poet and let's hear you tell it like it is!
Raffles! Prizes for best costumes! Special Guests! Open mike! Light refreshments served; finger food contributions welcome--BYOB. Admission: $5 donation to the Gallery.
Open mike sign up by email to vicblu@mindspring.com, terriklein@aol.com, or poetry@freightstreetgallery.com (subject: Poetry Salon open mike). Positions on the open mike list will be assigned as reservations are received, with additional names added at the Salon (first come, first served) until the list is filled. Got books/CD's/locks of hair to sell? Bring 'em down! RSVP
Freight Street Gallery
170 Freight Street
Waterbury, CT
www.freightstreetgallery.com
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Sunday, October 25 2009
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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Sunday, October 25 2009
4:00pm
SUNDAYS BY THE RIVER
featuring Sharon Charde adn Ingrid Grenon
Featuring Sharon Charde, author of Branch In His Hand, and Ingrid Grenon, author of Simply This, illustrated by Sarah McQuilkin. Open Mike follows.
Admission: $10.00/session. Free for Open Mike.
Millrace Book Shop
40 Mill Lane
Farmington, CT
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Monday, October 26 2009
7:00pm
GERALDINE MILLS at UConn
Irish novelist and poet Geraldine Mills has two published collections of short fiction, Lick of the Lizard and The Weight of Feathers. Her fiction has won the OKI Award, the Moore Medallion, the North Tipperary Award, the South Tipperary Award, and the Aspire Short Story Competition. She was named the Millennium winner of the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune New Irish Writer Award. She has three published collections of poetry with a fourth one coming out in the fall—Unearthing Your Own, Toil the Dark Harvest, and The Brightness Blinding. Her monologue “This is From The Woman Who Does” was produced by the Provincetown Theater Playwrights’ Festival in 2004.
UConn Co-op Bookstore
2075 Hillside Rd.
Storrs, CT
generalbooks.bookstore.uconn.edu/event/evening-geraldine-mills-irish-novelist-poet
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Monday, October 26 2009
7:00pm
THE LOVE JONES EXPERIENCE
Poetry & Jam Session. Bring your poems and instruments to our spoken word and song event.
All poets welcome. Amateurs welcome and encouraged to perform.
$5.00 cover. Hosted by Darlene Brandon Scott.
The Russell
103 Pratt Street
Hartford, CT
www.therussellct.com
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Monday, October 26 2009
7:30pm
ANYTHING GOES!
An open mike with J-Cherry
Anything goes for this open mike - spoken word, poetry, etc. BYO instrument or play our congas or piano. Warm, casual and friendly group offers encouragement and an ongoing sign-up list. Refreshments available. Happens every Monday!
7:30pm sign up; 8:00pm start. $3.00 suggested donation - give what you can.
The Buttonwood Tree
605 Main Street
Middletown, CT
860-347-4957
thebuttonwoodtree@gmail.com
www.buttonwood.org
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Monday, October 26 2009
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, October 27 2009
12:15pm
MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN at University of Hartford
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit's 2009 Touring Poet
Maria Mazziotti Gillan has published numerous books of poetry, including The Weather of Old Seasons, Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and Italian Women in Black Dresses. Her most recent work, All That Lies Between Us, received the 2008 American Book Award in Poetry. Additionally, she is co-editor with her daughter Jennifer of several anthologies that have invigorated our understanding of the diversity of poetry in America: Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, Growing Up Ethnic in America, and Italian-American Writers on New Jersey.
She is the editor of the Paterson Literary Review, founder and the Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and is also the Director of the Creative Writing Program and a Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-State University of New York.
Maria has won the the Sheila Motton Award, May Sarton Award, the Fearing Houghton Award, the Pietro di Donato Award, the Aniello Lauri Award, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, and the American Literary Translators Association Award through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit was established in 1968 to continue the work of the New England Poetry Circuit, which was established in 1964 at the request of the Academy of American Poets. The work of the circuit is guided by a panel of poets: Dick Allen, Clare Rossini, Kate Rushin, and Vivian Shipley. Each year the panel nominates outstanding poets, from which one is chosen.
Wilde Auditorium
University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT
Contact: Ben Grossberg - Grossberg@hartford.edu
www.hartford.edu/newsevents/calendar
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Tuesday, October 27 2009
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
ayarmal@earthlink.net
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Wednesday, October 28 2009
7:30pm
MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit's 2009 Touring Poet
Maria Mazziotti Gillan has published numerous books of poetry, including The Weather of Old Seasons, Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and Italian Women in Black Dresses. Her most recent work, All That Lies Between Us, received the 2008 American Book Award in Poetry. Additionally, she is co-editor with her daughter Jennifer of several anthologies that have invigorated our understanding of the diversity of poetry in America: Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, Growing Up Ethnic in America, and Italian-American Writers on New Jersey.
She is the editor of the Paterson Literary Review, founder and the Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and is also the Director of the Creative Writing Program and a Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-State University of New York.
Maria has won the the Sheila Motton Award, May Sarton Award, the Fearing Houghton Award, the Pietro di Donato Award, the Aniello Lauri Award, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, and the American Literary Translators Association Award through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit was established in 1968 to continue the work of the New England Poetry Circuit, which was established in 1964 at the request of the Academy of American Poets. The work of the circuit is guided by a panel of poets: Dick Allen, Clare Rossini, Kate Rushin, and Vivian Shipley. Each year the panel nominates outstanding poets, from which one is chosen.
Sponsored by the Saint Joseph College English Department and by the Ann Clark Canivan ’58 Fund which supports the advancement and enjoyment of poetry as a literary form. Admission is free of charge. For more information, contact Dr. Dennis Barone, professor of English and American Studies, at 860-231-5379 or dbarone@sjc.edu.
Second Floor Reception Room
The Bruyette Athenaeum
Saint Joseph College
1678 Asylum Avenue
West Hartford, CT
www.sjc.edu/about/calendar.html
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Wednesday, October 28 2009
7:30pm - 10:00pm
“IRISH POETRY” with GERALDINE MILLS
Irish poet and fiction writer Geraldine Mills’ surreal images and deep knowledge of the quirks of human nature make her writing resonate for a diverse audience. Her poetry is highly imagistic, calling up both the natural world of Ireland and the deeper yearnings within us all.
The Theatre and Betty R. Tipton Room are on the upper level of the Student Center
Student Center Theatre
Eastern Connecticut State University
83 Windham Street
Willimantic, CT
www.easternct.edu/university_hour.htm
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Wednesday, October 28 2009
7:30pm - 10:00pm
WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY SERIES
featuring Jack McCarthy
Put on Your Pirate Hat, Jack McCarthy is coming for Halloween! Every year we have our annual Halloween bash with costume contest. This year we have a feature as well. And what could be better on Halloween than the consummate storyteller poet!
Jack McCarthy is a working guy from the Boston area who’s been writing poetry since the mid-60s. He’d been averaging about a poem a year until 1992-93, when two things happened. First, his new wife, Carol, blackmailed him into attending a workshop with Galway Kinnell; then he brought his daughter Annie, for her birthday, to the open mike at the Cantab Lounge in Central Square, Cambridge, hoping she’d get excited about poetry. Jack was the one who got hooked. Since then he’s brought out Grace Notes, two chapbooks (Actual Grace Notes and Too Old to Make Excuses (But Still Young Enough to Make Love)), a 60-minute cassette tape (Poems for Hannah), and a CD (Breaking Down Outside a Gas Station). A major book, Say Goodnight, Grace Notes, was released in 2003 by EM Press to rave reviews. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including The Spoken Word Revolution. Among his influences he numbers Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, and Garrison Keillor. He doesn’t think of himself as a “performance poet,” but as a “standup poetry guy,” a writer of poems that perform themselves. See standupoet.net.
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, October 28 2009
9:00pm
POETZ REALM
Poetz Realm is not just a physical location where artists can get together and share in their artistry. Poetz Realm also provides web services such as a social networking community which allows it’s members to network, upload videos, pictures , music, chat, post poetry, written work and much more. Whether it be in the form of spoken word, poetry, and emceeing, singing or simply verbal expression, Poetz Realm is the place to be.
Poetz Realm meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month. Admission is $5.00 for regular patrons and free for whomever signs up for the open mike. There is a feature for each show. Features have included: Ngoma, Fredrick Douglas, Mo Jarvis, Baub Bidon, E da Storyteller, Shanna Melton, Kamal Imani, Influence, Ainsley Burrows, and many others.
“Let Your Voice Be Heard!”
Hosted by Ernel Grant, Founder/CEO
Bridgeport Innovation Center
Gallery 1212
955 Connecticut Ave
Bridgeport, CT. 06607
www.poetzrealm.com
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Thursday, October 29 2009
5:30pm - 7:00pm
LESLIE McGRATH
Book launch and reception in Mystic
Leslie McGrath's first collection of poetry, Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage, has just been published by Main Street Rag Publishing. Winner of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and the Philbrick Chapbook Prize, McGrath's sensual, and often food-related, poems have been published widely across the United States and Europe. McGrath is the managing editor of Drunken Boat online journal of the arts and a literary interviewer whose recent features have included Connecticut poets Dick Allen and Marilyn Nelson.
Please join Leslie for a brief reading, signing, and a delicious celebration at Bank Square Books.
Bank Square Books
53 West Main Street
Mystic, CT
860-536-3795
www.banksquarebooks.com
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Thursday, October 29 2009
7:00pm - 10:00pm
RIVERWOOD POETRY SERIES presents The UNDERWOOD CAFE
featuring Geri Radacsi and Alexandrina Sergio
Geri Radacsi’s third poetry collection, Tightrope Walker, is based on works of art. These new poems are intensely personal and impressionistic, not bound by the confines of their sources, although they also throw new light on a wide variety of artwork. Ms. Radacsi has been a journalist, English teacher, communication/media specialist, and freelance writer. Currently, she is Associate Director of University Relations, Emerita, at Central Connecticut State University. Her prize-winning chapbook, Ancient Music, was published in 2000; and her full-length poetry collection, Trapped in Amber, appeared in 2005. Her awards include the 2003 Connecticut River Review Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and several awards from the Connecticut Poetry Society. In 2004 she was a finalist in the Comstock Review, Blue Light Press and Owl Creek poetry contests.
Alexandrina Sergio’s new collection, My Daughter Is A Drummer in the Rock ’n Roll Band, offers a rich variety of moods: the sad poems contain moments of wry wit, and the overtly humorous or raucous poems contain deeper undercurrents. Ms. Sergio traces her passion for poetry to her mother’s habit of mixing the works of Celtic poets into bedtime tales. As an English teacher, Sandy coached prize-winning student poets. Subsequent careers in mental health and philanthropy-consulting encroached on writing time, but retirement has allowed broader opportunities. Her work has been published in a number of journals and anthologies and has twice been performed by a professional stage company. Her awards include first place in the 2007 Connecticut Senior Poetry Contest and second place in the 2008 Dorman John Grace Contest.
The Underwood Cafe at Wood Memorial Library: entertaining and thought-provoking poetry in a relaxed, cafe-style atmosphere. Open mike follows the feature. Refreshments. Admission is free: donations gratefully accepted. Donations of non-perishable foods will also be accepted for the benefit of St. Vincent de Paul food pantry. More info: www.riverwoodpoetry.org or www.woodmemoriallibrary.org.
Wood Memorial Library
783 Main Street
South Windsor, CT
860-289-1783
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Thursday, October 29 2009
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, October 29 2009
7:30pm
MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN at Wesleyan University
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit's 2009 Touring Poet
Maria Mazziotti Gillan has published numerous books of poetry, including The Weather of Old Seasons, Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and Italian Women in Black Dresses. Her most recent work, All That Lies Between Us, received the 2008 American Book Award in Poetry. Additionally, she is co-editor with her daughter Jennifer of several anthologies that have invigorated our understanding of the diversity of poetry in America: Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, Growing Up Ethnic in America, and Italian-American Writers on New Jersey.
She is the editor of the Paterson Literary Review, founder and the Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and is also the Director of the Creative Writing Program and a Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-State University of New York.
Maria has won the the Sheila Motton Award, May Sarton Award, the Fearing Houghton Award, the Pietro di Donato Award, the Aniello Lauri Award, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, and the American Literary Translators Association Award through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit was established in 1968 to continue the work of the New England Poetry Circuit, which was established in 1964 at the request of the Academy of American Poets. The work of the circuit is guided by a panel of poets: Dick Allen, Clare Rossini, Kate Rushin, and Vivian Shipley. Each year the panel nominates outstanding poets, from which one is chosen.
Russell House
Wesleyan University
350 High Street
Middletown CT
For more information contact Jessica Posner, Russell House Arts Fellow, at 860-685-3448.
www.wesleyan.edu/writing/distinguished_writers
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Saturday, October 31 2009
6:30pm
THE RIVERWOOD POETRY SERIES at Buttonwood
presents the Undead Poets Halloween Party.
Can the bards be dead when their words are undying? “No!” cries Riverwood Series, mysterious medium of Connecticut poetry. Come on down, place your hands upon the table, and experience Poe, Millay, Service, Sexton, and more as Riverwood embodies his—or is it her?—favorite dead poets this Halloween.
Plus! Make your own favorite poet “undead” in the open mike. You can even come in costume, if the spirit moves you.
Suggested donation is $3.00 and a non-perishable food item to be donated to the local soup kitchen/food pantry. Non-perishable food donations welcome to benefit the St. Vincent de Paul Place. Goodwill donations welcome. See www.riverwoodpoetry.org for details.
The Buttonwood Tree
605 Main Street
Middletown, CT
860-347-4957
thebuttonwoodtree@gmail.com
www.buttonwood.org
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