UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
April 11-12 (Tuesday-Wednesday) @ 6:30pm each day – Northwestern Connecticut Community College hosts the 24th Annual Mad River Poetry Festival in the Founders Hall Auditorium, 4 Park Place in Winsted. Free and open to the public. Tuesday’s reading will have students and Kateri Kosek, Jim Kelleher, and Joshua Brunetti reading. Wednesday’s reading will have Rob Piazza and Steven Ostrowski and a reception following. April 14 (Friday) @ 5:30-6:30pm – April is Poetry Month reading with poets Sally Van Doren and Emma Wynn at the Scoville Memorial Library in the Reading Room, 38 Main Street in Salisbury, CT. Free to attend but registration required. April 18 (Tuesday) @ 4:30pm – A.K. Smith Reading Series with poets Clare Rossini and David Wojahn. Located at Trinity College, in the Reese Room at Smith House, 123 Vernon Street in Hartford. April 18 (Tuesday) @ 7-9pm – WritersMic is a place to read your work in front of a group of friendly, non-threatening fellow writers. Westport Library. Hybrid meeting, both in person and on Zoom the third Tuesday of every month in a casual open mic format. We welcome fiction, essays, memoirs, non-fiction, and poetry. Each reader will have five minutes to read. This is a supportive group, with feedback if you request it. If you're not ready to read, come to listen — but bring something anyway — you may change your mind! April 22 (Saturday) @ 1pm – Spring Poetry Reading at the Hoppin Gallery in The Barney Library, 71 Main Street in Farmington. Launch and reading of the poetry collections Feather and Bones and imagine the small bones with poets John Stanizzi and Debbie Gilbert. April 29 (Saturday) @ 11am-12pm - The Joy and Pain of Motherhood: An Intimate Conversation in Poetic Verse with former New London Poet Laureate Rhonda Ward and Hartford Poet Laureate Frederick-Douglass Knowles II in the Community Room at the Otis Library at 261 Main Street in Norwich. May 5 (Friday) @ 7:30pm – Other People’s Poems reading at Hartford Flavor Company, 30 Arbor Street, Suite 107, in Hartford. Every first Friday, read a poem that you love (NOT your own). Come at 6:30pm to sign up (25 slots open). PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Wildhouse Poetry Prize: 2023 Chapbook Contest Deadline: April 15, 2023 Entries should comprise 25 pages of poetry at 30 lines/page (including blank lines). Winners will be awarded the Wildhouse Poetry Prize (first place $500, runner-up $250) and publication. Short-listed entries may also be published. Reading fee $25. Publisher: The Rising Poet Prize Deadline: April 16, 2023 Exclusively for new and emerging poets without a full-length collection out at the time of submission. Winner receives $3000, publication, and an interview with Palette Poetry. Second and third place will win $300 & $200 and publication. Blind read; $20 sub fee. Publisher: Open Door Magazine Deadline: April 30, 2023 Theme is envy. Can sub multiple pieces (no specifications on how many poems). No word limit. No reading fee; no payment. Publisher: Under a Warm Green Linden Deadline: April 30, 2023 Submissions are open for Issue 15: America/Being America. Poems that address topics in contemporary American public policy and political discourse. Send up to 5 poems. Simultaneous submissions okay. No reading fee; no payment. Publisher: Fast Flesh Literary Journal Deadline: None. Poetry submission under 1000 words. Hybrid and cross-genre work also accepted. No reading fee; no payment. Publisher: Pretty Cool Poetry Thing Deadline: None Interactive poetry – some will move, some will scroll, some will have music or animation. In addition to submitting a poem, you should also submit a 3-sentence proposal on how your poem can be interactive. No reading fee; $30 payment per poem. Publisher: $ Poetry is Currency Deadline: None Send 3-7 poems. Prefer to publish 2+ poems by each accepted poet. No reading fee; no payment.
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About Us:The Poets' Salon is an all-inclusive group that gets together the second Saturday of every month from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m in the Memorial Room at the Fairfield Public Library. We read our poetry aloud, politely critique each others' work (upon request), highlight publishing opportunities, and also talk about local poetry readings. Meeting Notes
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