POETRY
Book Talk: Samuel Wilkinson Yale School of Medicine at Yale Whitney Humanities Center
Whitney Humanities Center 320 York Street, New HavenHumanities Quadrangle (HQ) 276 6:00 pm Book Discussion about Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence, featuring author Samuel Wilkinson in conversation with Nii Addy, Laura Bridgewater, and John Morley Samuel Wilkinson discusses the evolutionary forces that spur us to be our altruistic selves and what inspired his fascination […]
Poetry Reading at Riverbound Farm Sanctuary in Cheshire
Riverbound Farm Sanctuary 1881 Cheshire Street, CheshireIn collaboration with the Connecticut Poetry Society, Quinnipiac Valley Audubon Society is pleased to host two Poetry readings at our Riverbound Farm Sanctuary. Listen to poets read their poems, bring your favorite nature poems for the occasion! If you are new to poetry, you are in for a wonderful awakening: poetry is for everyone! Open mic! For more […]
Connecticut River Review: Vivian Shipley Award: Poetry Submission Deadline: Sept. 30
Submit up to three previously unpublished poems in a single document, no more than one poem per page; 80-line per poem limit. Do not include contact info on the file. Contest is open to all poets. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable; however please notify us immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that was created – entirely or […]
An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe at La Grua Center
La Grua Center 32 Water St, StoningtonWhat: An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe When: October 2, 2024 at 5pm Where: La Grua Center, 32 Water Street Stonington, CT 06378 The undisputed master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, resurrects for one singular evening of mystery and horror. Immerse yourself in the life and death of the legendary author as actor Campbell Harmon performs […]
All Poets are Thieves Virtual Workshop with The Poetry Society of New York
The Poetry Society of New York 102 Franklin St, NYCJoin us this Thursday for a very exciting Virtual Workshop with @chelseaharlan! Language, as we know, is ever-evolving. You might say it’s a recyclable material, reused and repurposed and regenerating all the time. Poets are the great regenerators of language, collecting and arranging little words on little pages as though they’ve never appeared together exactly […]
Chasing Mythic Beginnings: Virtual Workshop with The Poetry Society of New York
The Poetry Society of New York 102 Franklin St, NYCWith poet Ananda Naima González! With so much chaos swirling about us in the present, perhaps casting a compassionate eye on the past offers us the gift of uncovering a heavy, pulsing truth. Maybe if we glance over our shoulders at our poetic beginnings, we might better uncover the essence of our shared existence. In this […]
Reading with Merrill Fellow, Timothy Donnelly at the Merrill House
James Merrill House 107 Water Street, StoningtonJoin us in the Merrill Apartment for a reading by Merrill Fellow Timothy Donnelly. Donnelly has published four collections of poetry. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere, including the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A professor in the writing program at Columbia University, he’s received fellowships from […]
Revising Revision: Virtual Workshop with The Poetry Society of New York
The Poetry Society of New York 102 Franklin St, NYCWith poet Sumita Charkraborty! We often use two words interchangeably: “revise” and “edit.” Are they the same thing? The etymology for revision tells us that the word means “to re-envision”; the etymology for edit leads to “producer,” “publisher,” and the like. Putting some conceptual space between those two things can help revision feel exciting, playful, and […]
Colin Channer: Poetry and music at La Grua Center in Stonington
La Grua Center 32 Water St, StoningtonColin Channer, Poet Laureate of RI, lives in New York. His book, Console, was a finalist for the 2023 New England Book Award. The second collection by "one of the most significant literary figures in the Caribbean" (The Globe and Mail). Assured but chance-inflected, ever rooted in the local but always world-aware, Console reconsiders languages, […]
Object Based Poetry Workshop with Timothy Donnelly at the Merrill House
James Merrill House 107 Water Street, StoningtonA unique opportunity to gather in the Merrill Apartment for a poetry writing workshop inspired by Merrill's objects with poet and Columbia University writing program professor, Timothy Donnelly.We will read and discuss a number of poems that engage with specific objects and then experiment with writing our own object-based poems inspired by items at the […]
Ending Things: Virtual Workshop with The Poetry Society of New York
The Poetry Society of New York 102 Franklin St, NYCWith poet Shuli Branson! Beginning a writing project can often feel insurmountable—we do whatever it takes to start getting words on the page. But that difficulty often overshadows the skill needed to know when and how to end a piece. This workshop will look at ending in relation to both form and content, pulling ideas from […]
“the things themselves”: Virtual Workshop with The Poetry Society of New York
The Poetry Society of New York 102 Franklin St, NYCWith poet Daniela Naomi Molnar! “The most sensuous poets are the ones I trust the most,” says the poet Jorie Graham, citing the way that a word like “justice” can mean a thousand things to a thousand people while a word like “salt” has a much smaller range of possible associations. This workshop will focus our […]