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HOUSE EVENTS 2011-2012
(alphabetical by author) SUSAN ALLISON JAKE ANDERSON Sunday, March 18, 2012, 2:00 p.m., Windsor Art Center, 40 Mechanic St., Windsor, CT: reading & book-signing in the Poetry on the Line Series (with Joan Kantor). Music TBA. A reception follows. For information call 860.217.0023 or see www.windsorartcenter.org. Tuesday, April. 17, 6:30 pm, Cora J. Belden Library, 33 Church St., Rocky Hill, CT: reading and book-signing, followed by open mike. For information: 860.258.7623 or http://www.rockyhilllibrary.info/. Saturday, April 28, 2 p.m., New Britain Museum of American Art, 56 Lexington Street, New Britain, CT 06052: Talk and reading based on Flounder In: Fishers Island Sketches. A PowerPoint presentation of images from the book will accompany the artist's presentation. For information, call 860.229.0257. Sunday, March 18, 2012, 2:00 p.m., Windsor Art Center, 40 Mechanic St., Windsor, CT: reading & book-signing in the Poetry on the Line Series (with Katharine Carle). Music TBA. A reception follows. For information call 860.217.0023 or see www.windsorartcenter.org. Saturday, April 7, 1:00 p.m., upstairs meeting room, Windsor Public Library, 323 Broad Street, Windsor, CT 06095: reading and book-signing. Coffee, tea and cookies will be served. For information: 860-285-1925, kinney@townofwindsor.com. Sunday, February 5, 2012, 2:00 p.m., Windsor Art Center, 40 Mechanic St., Windsor, CT: reading & book-signing in the Poetry on the Line Series (with Suzanne Levine). Music TBA. A reception follows. For information call 860.217.0023 or see www.windsorartcenter.org. Sunday, April 22, 4:00 p.m., Millrace Books, 40 Mill Lane, Farmington, CT: reading and book-signing as part of the Sunday Readings by the River Series sponsored by Farmington Literary Arts Center. The event is now free but please consider buying a book. Refreshments will be serived. For information, call 860-677-9662. MARGARET KEANE - SISTER MARIE MICHAEL KEANE Sunday, February 5, 2012, 2:00 p.m., Windsor Art Center, 40 Mechanic St., Windsor, CT: reading & book-signing in the Poetry on the Line Series (with Phyllis Katz). Klezmer music by A Klez Act featuring Lary Bloom on keyboard and Steve Jacobs on fiddle. A reception follows. For information call 860.217.0023 or see www.windsorartcenter.org. Friday, February 10, 7:00 PM, Morrill and Harris Library,
Strafford, VT. SPECIAL EVENTS
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival—ALL YEAR LONG! SAVE THE DATES for many exciting poetry events during 2012: FREE EVENTS: • April 22, 2012 / 3–6 pm: CONNECTICUT POETRY PARTY Music, potluck, and poetry. Admission is free for potluck dinners and events. Please bring a dish to share and RSVP to poetry@hillstead.org. WORKSHOPS: Workshops are $20 for members, $25 for members-to-be.
• March 18, 2012 / 1:30–5 pm: Bessy Reyna:
Tell Me a Secret: Writing Your Memoir - Participants will find new ways
to mine the richness of the stories of their lives. • May 19, 2012 / 1:30–5 pm: - Steve Straight: "AN HOMAGE TO THE HOMAGE: What Close Modeling Can Teach Us About Writing Poems" All workshops, potlucks and after-dinner events are held in the Makeshift Theater, Hill-Stead Museum, 35 Mountain Road, Farmington, CT 06032. For details and updates, visit www.hillstead.org.
POETRY POTLUCK at The Buttonwood Tree. 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 third Sunday of every month at 4:00 PM at The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown, Connecticut, 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. For more information call 860-347-4957. Pass this along to anyone you think might be interested in being part of this discussion group. Directions to The Buttonwood Tree at 605 Main Street, Middletown, CT: From Hartford take I-91 South to Exit 22S on the LEFT. Merge onto CT-9 South toward Middletown/Old Saybrook. Take Exit 16 toward Portland. At the light, turn LEFT onto Main Street. Go STRAIGHT through one light. The Buttonwood Tree is on the RIGHT at the second light which is at Liberty St. Note: Parking is on Main Street, on Liberty Street (one way, headed west), a free parking lot one block north of The Buttonwood Tree or behind the food market, It's Only Natural.
WINTONBURY BRANCH POETRY SERIES Each third Thursday event, October through April, begins at 7:00 p.m. and is followed by an open mike. Hosts: Marilyn Johnston and Tom Nicotera. Refreshments are always served, and notices of other area events are made available. Place: The Wintonbury Branch Library, 1015 Blue Hills Ave., Bloomfield, CT. Information is available at the Prosser Library website (www.prosserlibrary.info ("Wintonbury Branch") and by calling 860-242-0041. On February 16, we present two special Connecticut voices, Jean Sands and John Stanizzi. Ms. Sands, author of Gandy Dancing (Antrim House, 2011), has published widely and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Ms. Sands’ book prompted one critic to write of it: “Yes, damn it, this is unflinching, this is what it’s like to be beaten and survive; this is how our lives are.” John Stanizzi, an English teacher at Bacon Academy , is the author of three poetry collections, his most recent book, Ecstasy Among Ghosts (Antrim House). David Ferry praises “the accuracy of John Stanizzi’s ways of seeing and the unsentimental love he’s capable of expressing.” G. Scott Deshefy will be featured on March 15. Mr. Deshefy is author of Shadow Stones (2002) and Houyhnhnms All (1998). Some of his poems reflect a soldier's harrowing eye-view of the Vietnam War. He combines a love for poetry with a passion for public service. In 2010, Mr. Deshefy ran for U.S. Congress in the 2nd District for the Green Party. Finally, on April 19, we celebrate National Poetry Month honoring two talented and highly accomplished local poets, Ginny Connors and Patricia Hale. Each has the distinction of winning the prestigious national chapbook contest sponsored by the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. Ginny Connors is the author of the full poetry collection, Barbarians in the Kitchen. Ms. Connor's work has appeared in many journals such as Atlanta Review Ms. Hale's recent award-winning chapbook of finely-wrought poems is entitled Composition and Flight.
WORDFORGE READING
SERIES This is a free poetry reading series featuring local poets along with an open mike. Many readings will have a theme. Parking is available next to Firebox restaurant, along Broad Street, or at the Lyceum (227 Lawrence St.). Monday February 13, 7pm Antoinette Brim, author of Psalm of the Sunflower,
is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow, a recipient of the Walker Foundation
Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a Pushcart
Prize nominee. Her poetry, memoir and critical work has appeared in many
celebrated journals and anthologies. Antoinette Brim teaches African American
Literature and Creative Writing at Capital Community College.
RIVERWOOD POETRY SERIES All events free and open to the public, with an open mike. Place: The Underwood Cafe, Wood Memorial Library (lower gallery), 783 Main Street, South Windsor, CT. Thursday, April 12, 6:30 p.m., Cabaret at the Underwood Cafe. The snowed-out event has been rescheduled in its original location: the Underwood Cafe in the lower gallery of Wood Memorial Library, 783 Main Street, South Windsor. Contact Julia Paul (julia.paul@cox.net or Kathryn Kelly (kkellyteach@aol.com, 860-748-3225) for tickets ($35 per person), which will earn you a splendid dinner and a true cabaret's worth of stirring entertainment. The event is a benefit for Riverwood's ongoing contribution to the world of poetry and in particular its 2012 Poetry Festival, June 21-24. Please sign on!
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL GUND ROOM POETRY SERIES
MISHI-MAYA-GAT SPOKEN WORD & MUSIC SERIES resumes on Thursday, February 16, with two faculty poets from Trinity College, Clare Rossini and Ciaran Berry, reading at 7:00 p.m., followed by a set of music by the 016 New Music Ensemble (just a coincidence that they’re playing on the 16th!). The series is sponsored by the MCC Foundation Annual Fund Campaign. All events are free and open to the public.For more information, visit www.mcc.commnet.edu/faculty/spoken.php.
THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN The Institute Library
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