UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
February 13 (Thursday) @ 7-9pm – Jumpstart Your Engines Poetry Workshop with Jericho Brown @ The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main Street, Ridgefield. Jericho Brown helps students generate new work. Participants read, discuss, and even recite the work of several poets whose examples might lead us to a further honing of their craft. The workshop also features exercises for writing the duplex, a form Brown invented that blends the ghazal, the sonnet, and the blues. Each student should bring to class at least fourteen nine to ten syllable lines from past poems that haven't "worked." They’ll talk about ways to repurpose good but failed lines in new poems and use the duplex as a catalyst for our conversation. February 17 (Monday) @ 9pm-1am – Melanin Unplugged Poetry Jam @ 50s on Fitch Lounge, 50 Fitch Street, New Haven. Energetic and excited about Black History Month. Come enjoy a night of Melanin Unplugged! Come with an open mind and open ears for powerful expressions from local creatives. We are celebrating Black History Month with a late night poetry jam/party. This poetry jam platform will allow conversation to move beyond this space to discuss Black Lives and the contributions made in history. Admission: $10 (partial proceeds will benefit BLMNH). February 20 (Thursday) @ 7pm - “A Bloomfield Poet and a Massachusetts Poet” at the Wintonbury Poetry Series, located at the Prosser Public Library, 1 Tunxis Avenues, Bloomfield. Bloomfield poet James Black is a multifaceted creative who simply loves expressing himself through poetry. Though an artist, musician, speaker and author, James simply was born for poetry as poetry was born in him. Howie Faerstein‘s book, Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn, was published in 2013, and he presently volunteers as a citizenship mentor at the Center for New Americans and is Co-Poetry Editor of CutThroat, A Journal of the Arts. Open mic follows. February 21 (Friday) @ 10:45am-1:15pm – YoYB: Poetry Deep Revision with Jennifer Franklin @ Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY. This a 6-week class starting Friday February 21st. After writing the first draft of your full-length collection, this class will help order all of the poems, decide if there should be sections, revise each of the poems, settle on the title, and most importantly—remove any poems that are not as strong. A combination of workshopping new and old poems and deep revision, serious critique, deadlines, and mutual support, the goal is to submit to all of the first book prizes and chapbook contests in fall 2020. March 1 (Sunday) @ 3pm – "Poetry on the Streets," a project by Melanie Pappadis Faranello @ Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford. Featuring readers: Lucy Ferris & John Stanizzi, Hartford's Poet Laureate. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: The Poetry Porch Deadline: February 15 Send 3-8 poems, formal or informal. Publisher: Post Road Magazine Deadline: April 30 Accept most forms of poetry, including formal verse. $3 reading fee. Publisher: 32poems Deadline: Open year-round 32 Poems publishes shorter poems that fit on a single page (about 32 lines) and like the lyrical style. Send no more than five poems. Contributors receive $25 per poem and two copies of the issue in which their writing appears. For online submissions, $3 reading fee. Publisher: The Asses of Parnassus Deadline: Open year-round Submit online. Looking for short, witty, formal poems. Publisher: Muse-Pie Press Magazines: Shot Glass Journal and The Fib Review Deadline: Open year-round The Fib Review: Online poetry journal that specializes in only one particular poetry form – the Fibonacci poem. The Fibonacci poem is based on the structure of the Fibonacci number sequence. More info about Fibonacci poems HERE. Shot Glass Journal: Online poetry journal devoted to short poetry of 16 lines or less, both formal and free verse. Send no more than 5 poems at a time. Publisher: Lighten Up Online: The quarterly light verse webzine Deadline: Open year-round Accepts reprints and usually responds within 2 weeks. Looking for light, formal verse. Publisher: The Raintown Review Deadline: Open year-round Submit 3-5 poems. They publish many forms, including blank verse, experimental, formal verse, metrical, rhyming, sonnets and villanelles. If accepted, contributors receive one print copy of the issue and a discount on further issues (no monetary 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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