UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
March 11 (Saturday, today) @ 5pm – James Merrill House & Writer-in-Residence Program presents Pemi Aguda (winner of the O. Henry Prize) in conversation with writer and artist Gerardo Sámano Córdova. Free to attend; live on James Merrill House’s Facebook and YouTube channels. https://www.youtube.com/@thejamesmerrillhouseprogra6390/about March 12 (Sunday) @ 5pm – Author Talk with Christie Max Williams, who will be reading poems, both new and from his William Meredith Prize-winning book The Wages of Love. Located at the Stonington Free Library at 20 High Street in Stonington Borough. Free to attend. https://www.stoningtonfreelibrary.org/event/christie-max-williams/ March 16 (Thursday) @ 7pm – The Wintonbury Poetry Series presents an online event with featured poets Dennis Barone (poetry editor of the Wallace Stevens Journal) and Anita Durkin. An open mic will follow the featured poets. Free; registration required to attend/read. https://bplct.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=11443&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2023/03/07 March 22 (Wednesday) @ 6pm – An evening of poetry with Julie Choffel, Anna V.Q. Ross, and Danielle Pieratti in celebration of their new books. Located at Barnes & Noble UConn Hartford Bookstore, 18 Front Street in Hartford. Reading, Q&A. Free to attend. March 24 (Friday) @ 7pm – The Arts Café Mystic presents Philip Schultz, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. With musical guests Dr. Westchesterson and Faith Vicinanza. Located at La Grua Center, 32 Water Street in Stonington. General admission $15 – tickets available at the door. https://theartscafemystic.org/ Parking fee March 26 (Sunday) @ 2-4pm – Poets at Large presents spoken word poetry at The Rose Room, 4 E. Main Street in Webster, MA. Featuring G. John Brand and B. Fulton Jennes. Open mic following the speakers. Email [email protected] to sign up. Free to attend. https://www.facebook.com/groups/473720100932690/ April 2 (Sunday) @ 2-4pm - An afternoon poetry reading with 4 CT poet laureates: Sandy Carlson of Woodbury, Rick Magee of Bethel, Deborah Rose of New Milford, and Faith Vicinanza of Southbury. Located at the Arts Escape, 493 Heritage Road, Suite 4C in Southbury. Free event, registration required. https://www.artsescape.org/an-afternoon-with-four-ct-poet-laureates/#program April 5 (Wednesday) @ 6:30pm – The Racial Equity Book Club presents poet Magdalena Bessy Reyna. The books under discussion are Battlefield of Your Body and Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience. Online over Zoom – either email [email protected] or call 860-434-2272 for the link. Free to attend. https://www.lymepl.org/events/month/2023-04/ PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Word Works Washington Prize Deadline: March 15, 2023 A prize of $1,500 and publication is given annually to a U.S. or Canadian poet for a poetry collection. Submit a manuscript of 48 to 80 pages with a $25 entry fee. Blind read. https://wordworksbooks.org/submissions/the-washington-prize/ Publisher: Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize Deadline: March 15, 2023 A prize of $1,000 is given annually for a single poem, plus $200 to honorable mentions. Submit up to three poems of no more than three pages each with a $10 entry fee as a snail mail submission that needs to be postmarked by March 15 to qualify. Publisher: Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry Deadline: March 31, 2023 A prize of $1,000 is given annually for a poem written in metrical verse. The winner also receives a scholarship to attend and give a reading at the Frost Farm Poetry Conference in Derry, New Hampshire, in June. Blind read. Submit any number of poems with a $6 entry fee per poem. Publisher: Prime Number Magazine Deadline: March 31, 2023 $1,000 and publication in Prime Number Magazine is given annually for a poem. Submit a poem of up to three pages with a $15 entry fee. Publisher: Aurora Journal Deadline: March 25, 2023 Submit up to 5 poems at a time; no length limit. Open to all subjects, sim subs okay. They like to publish surrealistic poetry that is ethereal and dreamy. Encourages diverse submissions. No submission fee; $12 paid per poem. Option to pay for feedback. Publisher: Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest Deadline: April 1, 2023 A prize of $2,000, a gift certificate for two-year membership to the literary database Duotrope, and publication on the Winning Writers website is given annually for a humorous poem. A second-place prize of $500 is also awarded. Unpublished and previously published works are eligible. Submit a poem of up to 250 lines. No entry fee. Publication: Intima Deadline: April 3, 2023 Intima welcomes poetry that deals with any aspect along the illness/healing/caregiving continuum. Poems should preferably be no longer than one page in length. $7.50 reading fee. Blind read. Please submit each poem individually. You can submit up to three (3) poems per submission period but submit each poem individually.
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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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