UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
February 13 (Tuesday) @ 6pm EST - Poetry Night at Black Rock Books, located at 3030 Fairfield Ave in Bridgeport. About half a dozen poets will be reading, including our own Edward Ahern. $5-$10 suggested donation at the door. Complimentary refreshments will be served. February 14 (Wednesday) @ 7pm EST – Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways will host the Poets Laureate: Andrea Barton, Tony Fusco, Ben Grossberg, Anthony Paticchio, Virginia Shreve, and Faith Vicinanza at Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor Street in Hartford. An open mic will precede the featured reader—one poem, one page. They will draw 10 names from all those who sign up by 7 PM. The authors’ books will be available to buy for book signing & conversation, and beer, wine, soft drinks, and snacks will be available for purchase. February 15 (Thursday) @ 7pm EST – Wintonbury Poetry Reading with featured poets Naomi Bindman and Charlie Rossiter, followed by an open mic. The program is on Zoom. Free to attend, but registration required to get Zoom link. February 15 (Thursday) @ 7pm EST – Judith K. Liebmann will be giving a reading/lecture, accompanied by music and song, at the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library, located at 146 Thimble Island Road in Branford. The topic: “A Short Jaunt through the Long History of Poems of Love.” Free to attend, refreshments provided. February 18 (Sunday) @ 3pm EST – FUMFA Live, hosted by Vernon Poet Laureate Pegi Deitz Shea. Featuring new Enfield Poet Laureate Nzima Hutchings, Ridgefield PL Emerita B. Fulton Jennes, and new Manchester PL Nadia Sims. Also reading is award-winning Rockville High School student-poet Athena Lavigne. Located at Arts Center East at 709 Hartford Turnpike in Vernon. Open mic, refreshments, book sales. A $5 donation appreciated. February 24 (Saturday) @ 5pm EST – “Perform Your Poems Like a Pro” with Ira Joe Fisher: a Poets on Poetry (PoP) program hosted by the Connecticut Poetry Society. A how-to workshop on performing poetry. Free to attend; registration required for the Zoom link. February 24 (Saturday) @ 7pm-9pm EST – “Home Grown,” a show featuring Pomfret Poet Laureate Nancy Weiss, Woodstock’s Karen Warinsky (Coordinator of Poets at Large and Emcee) and Thompson Poet Laureate Steve Veilleux. Located at The Vanilla Bean Café at 450 Deerfield Road in Pomfret. All three write about relationships, politics and life events with a mix of concern and humor. This is the “Winter Blues” night with a $10 cover. February 26 (Monday) @ 7pm-8:30pm EST – “African Americans and the Arts: Poetry with Frederick Douglass Knowles and Rhonda Ward” in a celebration of Black History Month. Event will be at the Willimantic branch of CT State Community College - Quinebaug Valley, located at 729 Main Street in Willimantic. In case of inclement weather date, the event will be held on Wednesday February 28 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Light snacks and refreshments will be available. For more information, please contact Jon Andersen, professor of English at [email protected] (phone: 860-932-4054). March 2 (Saturday) @ 9am-12pm EST – The Mural as Muse: An Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with Poet Ed Lent, aka Ezra Lovecraft. Explore the intersection of art and poetry at this half-day creative writing workshop. Ekphrastic writing describes a work of visual art, using the artwork as a source for personal and imaginative interpretation. Facilitator Ed Lent will share examples of poems created in response to art, and offer inspiration and guidance as participants reflect on—and write in response to AMP’s mural. Participants will also have the chance to showcase their poetry in The Mural as Muse exhibit at AMP for National Poetry Month, April 2024. Pre-registration is required. Adults: $20, students (grade 6-college): $12. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Baubles from Bones Deadline: February 21, 2024 Sub up to 3 poems. Any form, meter, or style of poetry that deals with the fantastical, supernatural, or speculative is welcome in our book. Give them poetry that challenges our perception of well-explored genre tropes, offering inventive explorations of what we think we know. All poems must be less than 40 lines long, and prose pieces must be less than 600 words. Pays $6 per poem. Sim subs okay; no reprints. Publisher: The Heduan Review Deadline: February 25, 2024 Theme: “Narratives of healing, reflection, and rebirth.” Sub up to 5 poems or 3 prose poems at a time. Sim subs okay. Reprints okay. All works submitted may be considered for their online magazine or eBook journal. Accepted works are paid 5¢ a word according to the final copy. Publisher: The Poetry Porch 2024 Deadline: March 1, 2024 Send 3 to 8 poems. They are looking for poetry that is formal or informal, that adheres to strict meter and rhyme or experiments with them, that is personal or objective, classical or modern, urban or pastoral. Also interested in original unpublished sonnets to add to The Sonnet Scroll. No sim subs. Publisher: Harpy Hybrid Review Deadline: Open; next issue pubbed in April Celebrates and showcases hybrid works in all their varied forms. Examples of hybridity in literature include, but are not limited to: prose poetry, lyric essays, ekphrastic poems, songs, broadsides, found poetry, digital literature, comics, and any other combination of the traditional elements of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. No more than 5 pages writing or 10 pages writing & art. Accepts reprints from print journals only. Publisher: The Seraphic Review Deadline: No deadline. Sub 1-3 poems, up to ten pages total. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, as are previously published works. No payment; no reading fee. Publisher: Midsummer Dream House Deadline: No deadline. Send 1-6 poems or 1-2 prose poems. Midsummer Dream House accepts simultaneous submissions and previously published work. No payment; no reading fee.
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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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