WordHouse Reading Series
Wednesday December 3, 6PM
Benjamin Grossberg and Margaret Lloyd
Reading starts with an Open Mike
Margaret Lloyd was born in Liverpool, England, of Welsh parents and emigrated to a Welsh immigrant community in central New York State. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, England. She is the author of five poetry books, most recently Sleeping in the Same World (Kelsay Books, 2024). Her poetry honors include a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, fellowships to Breadloaf and to Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, and a writing residency at Yaddo. Lloyd has also published widely in literary journals such as Poetry East, Willow Springs, New England Review, AGNI, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Stand, and Poetry Wales. Lloyd is Professor Emeritus at Springfield College, Massachusetts. Find more about Lloyd at her website: www.margaretlloyd.net
Benjamin S. Grossberg’s collections include My Husband Would (University of Tampa, 2020), winner of the Connecticut Book Award, and Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa, 2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. He also wrote a novel, The Spring before Obergefell (University of Nebraska, 2024), which also received a Lambda Literary Award. A new chapbook, As Are Right Fit, was recently published by Harbor Editions (2024). Ben is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hartford.
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West Hartford CT 06107
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WordHouse Schedule: Fall 2025
Upcoming readings...
All readings on Wednesdays
Time: 6-8PM
Dec 3: Margaret Lloyd and Benjamin Grossberg
All readings begin with an Open Mike.
Noah Webster House
227 South Main Street
West Hartford CT 06107
For more info, contact:
Jim Finnegan
jforjames@aol.com
860.508.2810
All readings on Wednesdays
Time: 6-8PM
Dec 3: Margaret Lloyd and Benjamin Grossberg
All readings begin with an Open Mike.
Noah Webster House
227 South Main Street
West Hartford CT 06107
For more info, contact:
Jim Finnegan
jforjames@aol.com
860.508.2810
WordHouse Reading Series History
-2025-
Nov 5: Monica Ong and Virginia Shreve
Oct 15: Ciaran Berry and Srini Mandavilli
Sept. 17: Dennis Barone and Luisa Caycedo-Kimura
June 28: Sarah Wetzel
May 3: Ethan Rutherford and Danielle Chapman
April 5: Julia Paul and Henk Rossouw
March 8: Ginny Lowe Connors and brett a. maddux
Feb 1: Brickwalk Poets: Thirtieth Anniversary Reading
Current and former members of a poetry workshop
with a 30-year history.
-2024-
December 14: D. Walsh Gilbert and V. Penelope Pelizzon
November 9: Victoria Norland and Margaret Gibson with actress Heather Oakley
October 19: Marilyn E Johnston and John L Stanizzi
September 28: Pegi Deitz Shea and Richard Michelson
June 1: Eric Hoffman and Steven Ostrowski
April 6: Pate Hale and Patrick Pritchett
March 23: Daniel Lawless and Clare Rossini
Feb. 17: Martha Collins and Anna V. Q. Ross
-2023-
December 9: David Pontrelli and Terry Blackhawk
November 18: Dennis Barone and Amy Nawrocki
October 21: Haiku poets: Stanford M. Forrester/sekiro, Tom Sacramona and Denise Fontaine-Pincince
September 30: Brad Davis and Sally Van Doren
June 10: Debora Kuan and Charles O. Hartman
May 27: Christine Beck and Sharon Lattig
April 8: Steve Straight and Margot Schilpp
March 18: B. Fulton Jennes and Gian Lombardo
February 18: James Berger and Suzanne Frischkorn
-2022-
December 10: Krysia Jopek and Julie Choffel
November 19: Robert Cording and David Cappella
October 22: Short readings and presentations by contributors to the anthology Imagining Vesalius: An Ekphrastic, Scholarly and Literary Celebration of the 1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius, edited by Richard Ratzan. Dennis Barone, Terry Donsen Feder, Rosalyn Driscoll, Jack Coulehan, Jim Finnegan, Noah Ratzan, and Richard Ratzan.
September 17: Present & past West Hartford Poets Laureate: Benjamin Grossberg, Maria Sassi, Ginny Lowe Connors, Dennis Barone, Christine Beck and James Finnegan
Previous series: The Charter Oak Readings
Nov 5: Monica Ong and Virginia Shreve
Oct 15: Ciaran Berry and Srini Mandavilli
Sept. 17: Dennis Barone and Luisa Caycedo-Kimura
June 28: Sarah Wetzel
May 3: Ethan Rutherford and Danielle Chapman
April 5: Julia Paul and Henk Rossouw
March 8: Ginny Lowe Connors and brett a. maddux
Feb 1: Brickwalk Poets: Thirtieth Anniversary Reading
Current and former members of a poetry workshop
with a 30-year history.
-2024-
December 14: D. Walsh Gilbert and V. Penelope Pelizzon
November 9: Victoria Norland and Margaret Gibson with actress Heather Oakley
October 19: Marilyn E Johnston and John L Stanizzi
September 28: Pegi Deitz Shea and Richard Michelson
June 1: Eric Hoffman and Steven Ostrowski
April 6: Pate Hale and Patrick Pritchett
March 23: Daniel Lawless and Clare Rossini
Feb. 17: Martha Collins and Anna V. Q. Ross
-2023-
December 9: David Pontrelli and Terry Blackhawk
November 18: Dennis Barone and Amy Nawrocki
October 21: Haiku poets: Stanford M. Forrester/sekiro, Tom Sacramona and Denise Fontaine-Pincince
September 30: Brad Davis and Sally Van Doren
June 10: Debora Kuan and Charles O. Hartman
May 27: Christine Beck and Sharon Lattig
April 8: Steve Straight and Margot Schilpp
March 18: B. Fulton Jennes and Gian Lombardo
February 18: James Berger and Suzanne Frischkorn
-2022-
December 10: Krysia Jopek and Julie Choffel
November 19: Robert Cording and David Cappella
October 22: Short readings and presentations by contributors to the anthology Imagining Vesalius: An Ekphrastic, Scholarly and Literary Celebration of the 1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius, edited by Richard Ratzan. Dennis Barone, Terry Donsen Feder, Rosalyn Driscoll, Jack Coulehan, Jim Finnegan, Noah Ratzan, and Richard Ratzan.
September 17: Present & past West Hartford Poets Laureate: Benjamin Grossberg, Maria Sassi, Ginny Lowe Connors, Dennis Barone, Christine Beck and James Finnegan
Previous series: The Charter Oak Readings
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