UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
June 12 (Sunday) @ 2-3:30pm – Poets on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – a reading and panel for PTSD Awareness Month. Located at Reader’s Block Bookstore, 2420 Main Street in Stratford. Featuring Jwon Choi, Emily Franklin, Saida Agostini, Lynne Schmidt, Fox Henry Frazer and Joan Kwon Glass. Light refreshments will be served. June 12 (Sunday) @ 4pm – Music and Poetry to Benefit Ukraine. The Windy Hill Guitar Ensemble and the Kachala Family will present a benefit concert to benefit Ukraine at the South Congregational Church, 242 Salmon Brook Street, in Granby. In addition to Ukrainian and world music, performers will include poet Kevin Carey of the Connecticut Poetry Society. Due to Covid-19 protocols, for those attending in person, masks and social distancing will be required. For more information contact Laura Mazza-Dixon, director of the Windy Hill Guitar Studio at 860-653-6146 or at [email protected]. For those who can’t attend in person, a video will be available on the South Church YouTube channel after the concert. June 18 (Thursday) @ 1pm – The annual Rose Garden Reading with the award-winning poets Julien Strong and Luisa Caycedo-Kimura, editor of the Connecticut River Review. Event will be at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Hubbard Hall, 679 Farmington Avenue in West Hartford. Sponsored by the Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens. Free to attend. For more information, contact Jim Finnegan at [email protected] or 860-508-2810. June 22 (Wednesday) @ 6pm. Held the 4th Wednesday of every month, poet laureate of Yorktown John McMullen hosts a poetry workshop on Zoom. It’s a place for poets to sharpen their skills by reading their work and having it respectfully criticized, as well as listen to the work of others and share information about the business of poetry and publishing. If you plan to attend, please email [email protected]. Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83176155376 June 23 (Thursday) @ 7pm – The Connecticut Poetry Society presents Poets on Poetry with moderator and poet Antoinette Brim-Bell in conversation with Cornelius Eady, who is an award-winning poet, musician, and co-founder of Cave Canem. Free and open to the public. Zoom link Meeting ID: 894 3704 2728 Passcode: 952778 June 26 (Sunday) 2-4pm – Poets at Large: An affiliation of regional poets will perform in a series of spoken word/poetry readings at Roseland Park, 205 Roseland Park Road, Woodstock, CT, and will be in the Rose Bowl outdoor auditorium (barn if rain). Featured Readers: Dina Stander, Robert Eugene Perry, Ben Grossberg; featured Open Mic reader, Sarah St. George. These readings are free to the public and will include an open mic segment. Sign-ups at the event; 5-minute limit. Email [email protected] with questions. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: The Twin Bill Deadline: July 1, 2022 Please send up to five poems per issue. They love baseball from all eras, but would particularly like to see poems of a more contemporary style or subject matter. Simultaneous submissions are okay. No fee to submit. Pays $5 honorarium per published poem. Publisher: Poetry London Prize Deadline: June 30, 2022 (London time) Open to poets worldwide. Submit as many poems as you’d like, but each one must be accompanied by the entry fee of £4-£8. Free entries are available for writers on low incomes. 1st prize: £5,000, 2nd prize: £2,000, 3rd prize: £1,000 plus publication in Poetry London. Publisher: Annual Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest Deadline: June 15, 2022 Contest open to all writers who have not yet published a book of poetry. Manuscripts can either be a collection of poems or one long poem and should be a minimum of sixteen and a maximum of twenty pages (not including title page, table of contents, or cover sheet). Blind read. $15 reading fee. BIPOC submissions are free. The winner receives a $500 cash award, publication, ten copies, a reading at the Hudson Valley Writers Center, plus travel expenses up to $500 if needed and if reading is in person. Winning poets are also offered editorial and marketing advice. Publisher: Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology Deadline: June 30, 2022 Submit no more than 5 poems inspired by Dolly Parton’s life and music. Poems should not exceed 3 pages, for a total of 15 pages max. No fee to submit. Contributors will receive 1 copy of the anthology as payment. Publisher: FAMILY anthology by THE POET Deadline: June 30, 2022 Mothers and fathers, husbands, wives and partners, grandmothers and grandfathers, sons and daughters, grandchildren, aunties, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins; whether from your distant past, present day, or forthcoming arrivals, you can write about anything to do with family. Submit up to 4 poems of any style. No profanity of any kind or adult themes; family-friendly publication. No fee to submit. Contributors will receive a PDF copy of the anthology they’re published in. Publisher: The Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize 2022 Deadline: July 1, 2022 The prize promotes the literature of the Italian diaspora and is open to poets of Italian descent writing poems on any style and theme. The winning poet will be awarded $1000 and Bordighera Press will publish the manuscript, along with a standard royalty contract. Completed manuscript should be 48-75 pages with 1 poem per page. Simultaneous submission okay. Entry fee $20. Multiple manuscripts can be submitted, accompanied by a 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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