UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
November 13 @ 6-10pm (Saturday, today) – Rock the Red Fashion Show & Poetry Slam, located at Holiday Inn, 2070 Main Street, Bridgeport. Bringing awareness to HIV/AIDS. Free to attend. November 14 @ 5pm (Sunday) – Poetry Reading with Margaret Gibson, Poet Laureate of Connecticut at the Stonington Free Library, 20 High Street, Stonington. November 14 @ 7-8pm (Sunday) – Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series with Mary Soon Lee. Her two latest books are from opposite ends of the poetry spectrum: Elemental Haiku, containing haiku for the periodic, and The Sign of the Dragon, an epic fantasy with Chinese elements. Free to attend online, but registration required for Zoom link. November 18 @ 7-9:30pm (Thursday) - "Two Poets from Syracuse" reading, featuring Linda Griggs and Martin Willits. Open Mic follows the featured poets. Sign up during registration or email Tom Nicotera (below). Upon registering your email for this program, you will receive the Zoom link to join. All participants will start with video off and sound muted. No computer/internet at home? Call the Library for the phone number, meeting ID & password and join us over the phone. Tom Nicotera - [email protected] or (860) 243-9721 November 20 @ 7pm (Saturday) – Moonstone Poetry Virtual Reading New Voices, featuring emerging poets from Philadelphia under the age of 25. Free reading online, registration required for Zoom link. November 30 @ 8pm (Tuesday) - Black Lawrence Press presents Anna Suton, Brian Simoneau, and Rob Carney for a reading and Q&A. If you miss it, you can catch it on their YouTube Channel. Free to attend online, registration required to get Zoom link. December 2 @ 7pm (Thursday) – Pitt Poetry Series presents a nature poetry reading by Maxine Scates and Kasey Jueds. Free to attend online, registration required to get Zoom link. December 5 @ 3pm (Sunday) - Poetry Rocks, with featured readers Tom Nicotera, Sitara Gnanaguru, and an award-winning student poet (tbd) from Rockville High School, at Arts Center East, 709 Hartford Turnpike, Vernon. An open mic will follow featured readers. Since the reading will be in-person, masks are required regardless of vaccination status. For more information, email Pegi Deitz Shea at [email protected]. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Bards Against Hunger Deadline: November 15, 2021 An anthology that helps the hungry – at each poetry reading event, donations of food go to local food banks. Send up to 3 poems of 100 lines or less. Poems of all styles and genres will be considered. Open to poets in CT, MA, and RI. Publisher: levatio Deadline: November 20, 2021 Theme: serenity. Submit 2-3 poems between 10-300 words. Free to submit, but can ask for editor’s feedback for $3. The top piece in each category published will receive an honorarium. Publisher: Marathon Literary Review Deadline: November 30, 2021 Submit up to 3 poems of no more than 8 pages. No fee, no payment. Publisher: 2021 Shooter Poetry Competition Deadline: November 28, 2021 (UK time) Submit poems of any theme or style up to 100 lines long. Blind read. £3.50 entry fee for 1 poem, £8 for 3 poems. Winner will be announced in December, and will receive £150, runner-up £50. Both will be published by Shooter and promoted online. Publisher: Mslexia Poetry Competition Deadline: December 6, 2021 Submit up to 3 poems per entry fee of £10. Enter unpublished poems of any length, on any subject. The prizes are as follows: 1st prize, £2,000; 2nd prize, £500; and 3rd, £250. They also have an Unpublished Poet Prize, with the winner receiving £250. 16 additional finalists will be awarded £25 each. All winners and finalists will be published in the March 2022 edition of Mslexia. Publisher: Discretionary Love Deadline: Open deadline Submit 3-5 poems of no more than 100 lines each. Theme: love. Publishing every week. Simultaneous submissions okay. No fee, no payment. Publisher: Talk Vomit Deadline: Open deadline Poems about honest experiences, including relationships, mental health, self-improvement, pop culture, and cultural criticism. All genres accepted, including prose poetry, but less likely to accept traditional poetic forms. $5 payment upon publication.
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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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