UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
December 9 (Saturday, today) @ 2pm EST – WordHouse Reading Series presents David Pontrelli and Terry Blackhawk at the Noah Webster House at 227 South Main Street in West Hartford. Free event, but consider making a donation. Program begins with an open mic. December 10 (Sunday) @ 2-3pm EST – Connecticut’s 8th Poet Laureate Antoinette Brim-Bell will do a reading in the New Britain Museum of American Art at the exhibit "Women Reframe American Landscape,” located at 56 Lexington St in New Britain. Tickets are between $5-$25. December 12 (Tuesday) @ 7pm EST – Zoom presentation from John and Alexis Serio's book Perennial Earth, winner of a 2023 PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence. Free Zoom event. Register HERE. December 13 (Wednesday) @ 7pm - Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways will host Luisa Caycedo-Kimura and Nadia Sims at Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor Street in Hartford. An open mic for 10 poets will precede the featured reader—one poem, one page please. Free of Charge. Ample parking. December 15 (Friday) @ 7-8:30pm EST – Bethel’s Byrd’s Books, at 178 Greenwood Avenue in Bethel, will host a reading by Rick Magee, Bethel Poet Laureate, and his first book. Free event. December 21 (Thursday) @ 7pm EST – Connecticut Poetry Society presents Poets on Poetry: Contemporary Palestinian Poetry with Susan Muaddi Darraj. Register to receive the Zoom link. December 21 (Thursday) @ 7pm EST – Wintonbury Poetry Reading. The featured poets are Kathy Carle and D. Walsh Gilbert, followed by an open mic. People can sign up with the above link. January 3 (Wednesday) @ 7-8:15pm EST - Poems from CT's Four Corners, and online reading. Join them online for a reading by notable poets representing each of the state’s four corners, plus one from the central Hartford area. The January reading features Ralph Nazareth, Victoria Nordlund, Julia Paul, Rob Piazza, and Julia Maylor Simpson. Hosted and curated by Ridgefield Poet Laureate Emerita Barb Jennes. Free to attend; registration required. January 5 (Friday) @ 6:30-8pm EST - MoCA Some Noise: Open Mic at Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) at 19 Newtown Turnpike in Westport. Tickets are between $0-$10. Participants have 5 minutes to perform either acoustic music, poetry, or slam poetry. January 6 (Saturday) @ 2-4pm EST – Give me a break: Using Line Breaks in Poetry. Workshop exploring the use of line breaks in poems, both in established poets and in your own poems. Registration is $24.14 CAN. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Orenaug Mountain Publishing Deadline: December 10, 2023 Orenaug Mountain Publishing will accept submissions for its winter anthology, Winter Glimmerings. Two poems per person. No submission fee. Previously published work welcome. Publisher: Meetinghouse Deadline: December 22, 2023 Five poems per submission. Keep subs under 7,500 words. Usually don’t accept previously published work, but have made exceptions. Simultaneous subs okay. $40 paid if pubbed online, $100 if pubbed in print. Like genre-bending and genre-blending work. Publisher: Poetry Box (Off Topic Publishing) Deadline: December 25, 2023 Submit 1-3 poems of any style and theme. The poem should be no more than 15 lines (including blank lines). One poem will be selected for publication each month and printed postcard-style to be mailed out to the Poetry Box subscribers, who receive the poem, tea, and chocolate in a box. These selections are made two months in advance. Publisher: Audience Askew Literary Journal Deadline: December 31, 2023 2-60 line per poem. Submit up to three poems at a time. No reading fee; no payment. Contributors will receive a free digital copy of the issue that their work appears in. Blind read. And they also take chapbook submissions. Publisher: Elm Leaves Journal (ELJ) Deadline: Rolling. Please send 1-5 poems. No word count limit. No fee; payment of a contributor copy. Publisher: Naked Cat Press Deadline: None. Send up to 6 poems at a time. No fee; no payment. Likes work that pushes the limits – nothing taboo. Publisher: Poetry Ireland Review Deadline: Not specified. Send a max of 4 poems of no more than 8 pages total. Simultaneous subs okay. Payment of 1 contributor’s copy and €50.
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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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