POETRY READING
Monday June 10, 7pm
Stephen Campiglio founded and coordinates the Mishi-maya-gat Spoken Word & Music Series at Manchester Community College in CT, where he is coordinator of Credit-Free Programs in the Division of Continuing Education. His work has recently appeared in Caduceus, Common Ground Review, Italian Americana, Marco Polo Arts Journal, Nostoc, Ping*Pong, The Prose-Poem Project, Skidrow Penthouse, Theodate, and The Worcester Review, among others. He was a 2012 finalist for the Bordighera Poetry Book Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Fall 2012. His first chapbook, Cross-Fluence, was published by Soft Spur Press in 2012. A second chapbook, Verbal Clouds through Various Magritte Skies, is forthcoming from Cy Gist Press.
Sarah Pemberton Strong has poems in The Southern Review, Atlanta Review, Cream City Review, Mississippi Review, RATTLE, River Styx, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Sun, and Southwest Review. She is the recipient of a Promise Award from The Sustainable Arts Foundation, an Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award from Southwest Review, and her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the poetry editor at New Haven Review.Sarah Pemberton Strong is the author of two novels, The Fainting Room (Ig Publishing, 2013) and Burning the Sea (Alyson, 2002), and a poetry collection, Tour of the Breath Gallery, which won the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize (Texas Tech University Press, 2013).
Sarah lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her spouse and daughter. She holds a Master Plumber’s license, and earns her living running a one-person plumbing company.
PLUS OPEN MIKE
Location: The Studio @ Billings Forge
563 Broad Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Parking available next to Firebox restaurant or along Broad Street.
Free event.
For more information, contact:
Jim
JforJames@aol.com
860-508-2810
Upcoming Readings: 2013...
2013 WordForge Readings
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All Mondays, all 7PM start,
& all start with an Open Mike...
SUMMER BREAK... STARTING AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER 2013.
WordForge Reading Series History
2013
May 13: Alfred Corn and Glyn Dowden
April 29: Karim Ahmed and Reginald Flood
April 8: Clarke Otter and Ken McManus
March 11: Pate Hale and Steve Straight
2012
December 10: Donna Fleischer and Tom Nicotera
Nov. 12: Charles Douthat and Julia Paul
Oct. 15: Christine Palm and David Pontrelli
Sept. 24: Ginny Lowe Connors and Ken Cormier
June 4: Christine Beck & Cynthia Peck
May 14: Sherri Bedingfield and Benjamin Grossberg
April 16: Catherine Hoyser and Kate Rushin
March 12: Poetry and Translation: David Cappella and Maria Esposito Frank
February 13: Two Capital Community College poets, Antoinette Brim & Kenneth DiMaggio
2011
December 12: 'Coat Drive' Open Mike
November 14: Three Antrim House Poets: Susan Allison, Polly Brody & Joan Kantor
October 17: Two poets from Trinity College, Clare Rossini and Ciaran Berry
September 26: Short readings by current/former board members of the Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens, featuring: Dennis Barone, Lonnie Black, Christine Palm and Phil Tegeler
June 13: Jesse Abbot and Steve Ersinghaus
May 16: David Leff and Maria Sassi
April 19: John Peck and Lisa Taylor
April 4: Eileen Albrizio and Gray Jacobik
March 14: Irish & American Poetry Night, featuring Ciaran Berry, Leslie McGrath, Kathryn Kelly and James Finnegan.
Jan. 10: Peter Ganick and Eric Hoffman
2010
Dec. 6: Prose Poems & Flash Fiction, featuring Dennis Barone and Charlie Chase
Nov. 15: Fall Harvest Open Mike (benefit for Loaves & Fishes Ministries)
Oct. 18: Marilyn Johnston and John Stanizzi
Sept. 13: Nancy Kuhl and Ravi Shankar
June 14: Suzanne Frischkorn and John Surowiecki
April 26: Poets of the Greater Hartford Arts Academy with Megan Collins, Meghan Evans, Jonathan Gillman, Lynn Hoffman, Pamela Nomura, Rafael Oses, Christine Palm, Pit Pinegar, Kate Rushin
May 17: Brush & Ink: A night of Modern Poetry in the Japanese Tradition—Stanford M. Forrester, Donna Fleischer and Tyrone McDonald
April 5: Leslie McGrath and Tryfon Tolides
March 15: River’s Edge Poets—David Holdt, Elizabeth Kincaid-Ehlers and Drew Sanborn
Feb. 22: Bessy Reyna and Mark Weiss
Feb. 1: Ten Thousand Things
Jan. 11: Favorite Poem Project: Poetry in Spanish<=>English
2009
Dec. 7: Brickwalk Poets
Nov. 16: Fall Harvest Open Mike Reading (benefit for FoodShare)
May 13: Alfred Corn and Glyn Dowden
April 29: Karim Ahmed and Reginald Flood
April 8: Clarke Otter and Ken McManus
March 11: Pate Hale and Steve Straight
2012
December 10: Donna Fleischer and Tom Nicotera
Nov. 12: Charles Douthat and Julia Paul
Oct. 15: Christine Palm and David Pontrelli
Sept. 24: Ginny Lowe Connors and Ken Cormier
June 4: Christine Beck & Cynthia Peck
May 14: Sherri Bedingfield and Benjamin Grossberg
April 16: Catherine Hoyser and Kate Rushin
March 12: Poetry and Translation: David Cappella and Maria Esposito Frank
February 13: Two Capital Community College poets, Antoinette Brim & Kenneth DiMaggio
2011
December 12: 'Coat Drive' Open Mike
November 14: Three Antrim House Poets: Susan Allison, Polly Brody & Joan Kantor
October 17: Two poets from Trinity College, Clare Rossini and Ciaran Berry
September 26: Short readings by current/former board members of the Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens, featuring: Dennis Barone, Lonnie Black, Christine Palm and Phil Tegeler
June 13: Jesse Abbot and Steve Ersinghaus
May 16: David Leff and Maria Sassi
April 19: John Peck and Lisa Taylor
April 4: Eileen Albrizio and Gray Jacobik
March 14: Irish & American Poetry Night, featuring Ciaran Berry, Leslie McGrath, Kathryn Kelly and James Finnegan.
Jan. 10: Peter Ganick and Eric Hoffman
2010
Dec. 6: Prose Poems & Flash Fiction, featuring Dennis Barone and Charlie Chase
Nov. 15: Fall Harvest Open Mike (benefit for Loaves & Fishes Ministries)
Oct. 18: Marilyn Johnston and John Stanizzi
Sept. 13: Nancy Kuhl and Ravi Shankar
June 14: Suzanne Frischkorn and John Surowiecki
April 26: Poets of the Greater Hartford Arts Academy with Megan Collins, Meghan Evans, Jonathan Gillman, Lynn Hoffman, Pamela Nomura, Rafael Oses, Christine Palm, Pit Pinegar, Kate Rushin
May 17: Brush & Ink: A night of Modern Poetry in the Japanese Tradition—Stanford M. Forrester, Donna Fleischer and Tyrone McDonald
April 5: Leslie McGrath and Tryfon Tolides
March 15: River’s Edge Poets—David Holdt, Elizabeth Kincaid-Ehlers and Drew Sanborn
Feb. 22: Bessy Reyna and Mark Weiss
Feb. 1: Ten Thousand Things
Jan. 11: Favorite Poem Project: Poetry in Spanish<=>English
2009
Dec. 7: Brickwalk Poets
Nov. 16: Fall Harvest Open Mike Reading (benefit for FoodShare)
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