UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
July 11 (Monday) @ 7pm – “A Garden of Verse” presents poets Meredith Bergmann and Kyle Potvin at the Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center at 152 Main Street in Ridgefield. Hosted by Ridgefield Poet Laureate Barb Jennes, the grounds open at 6:30pm. Attendees should bring a lawn chair or blanket. If it rains, the event will move indoors to the museum. Free to attend. July 14 (Thursday) @ 6-8pm - Join with poets from the ongoing twice-monthly virtual Norwalk Poetry Workshop, led by Norwalk Poet Laureate Bill Hayden for an evening of Live Ekphrastic Poetry at the Norwalk Art Space’s Creative Happy Hour at 455 West Avenue in Norwalk. Free to attend, and the Café will be open for refreshments (for sale) during the creative happy hour. July 15 (Friday) @ 7pm – Poetry reading online, featuring Bronwen Tate, Lynn Xu, Kate Schapira, Michael Tod Edgerton, and Caroline Noble Whitbeck. Free to attend; registration required for Zoom link. Hosted by the White Whale Bookstore. July 17 (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: Candace Curran, Tony Fusco, Eve Rifkah; Featured Open Mic reader, Michael Milligan. 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. July 20 (Wednesday) @ 7pm – Triple book launch online reading with poets David Cappella, Michael C. Keith and Doug Mathewson. Free to attend. Contact Gloria Mindock at [email protected] for the Zoom link. July 20 (Wednesday) @ 7-8pm – Online poetry reading & discussion featuring Conyer Clayton and Sienna Tristen. Two plant-loving poets discuss their new releases, top gardening/foraging tips, and how animism influences their wordsmithing. Free to attend; registration required for Zoom link. July 25 (Monday) @ 7pm – “A Garden of Verse” presents poets Joan Kwon Glass and Jordan Franklin at the Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center at 152 Main Street in Ridgefield. Hosted by Ridgefield Poet Laureate Barb Jennes, the grounds open at 6:30pm. Attendees should bring a lawn chair or blanket. If it rains, the event will move indoors to the museum. Free to attend. Join with poets from the ongoing twice-monthly virtual Norwalk Poetry Workshop, led by Norwalk Poet Laureate Bill Hayden for an evening of Live Ekphrastic Poetry along with the Norwalk Art Space’s Creative Happy Hour to be held on Thursday, July 14th from 6-8pm at 455 West Avenue Norwalk, CT. By the way the Café will be open for refreshments during the creative happy hour! PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Rattle Poetry Prize Deadline: July 16, 2022 Send up to 4 poems of any theme per entry. No line limit. Entry fee is a 1-year subscription to Rattle at their regular rate of $25. Multiple entries accepted, each accompanied by the $25 fee (and each entry will extend the entrant’s subscription to Rattle by 1 year). Simultaneous submissions okay. Blind read. The top winner will receive $15,000 and ten finalists will receive $500. All winners and finalists will be published in Rattle. Of the finalists, one will be chosen by the readers of Rattle and receive an additional $5000 and the Readers’ Choice Award. Publisher: Pure Slush and Truth Serum Press Deadline: July 31, 2022 Theme for the anthology is marriage. Send 5 poems of between 80-1000 words each. No submission fee; no payment. Publisher: Sliced Up Press Deadline: July 31, 2022 Call for submissions for their newest anthology Bloodless. Submit one poem within the horror genre that does not mention blood at all. No simultaneous submissions. No fee to submit; payment of $30 plus one print copy of the anthology. Publisher: The Sprawl Mag Deadline: July 31, 2022 Looking for speculative poetry. Accept simultaneous submissions. Submit 1-4 poems of no more than 40 lines per poem. Payment of $20 CAD per published piece. Publisher: Winchester Poetry Festival Deadline: July 31, 2022 (UK time) Unlimited entry for poems - entry fee is £5 for first poem, £4 for subsequent poems, and there will be a limited number of entries available for those who can’t pay the entry fee. Send poems of no more than 40 lines (excluding title). Blind read. First Prize: £1,000, 2nd Prize: £500, 3rd Prize: £250. Publisher: MONO. Poetry Prize 2022 Deadline: August 1, 2022 (UK time) You can enter up to three poems at a cost of £6 per poem. Any theme, but the judge enjoys work that “tests the limits.” 1st Prize £500 and publication in MONO., 2nd Prize £200, 3rd Prize £100, 3 highly commended poems will be published on the MONO. blog.
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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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