June 28: Sarah Wetzel and Benjamin Grossberg

WordHouse Reading Series
Saturday June 28, 2pm

Sarah Wetzel and Benjamin Grossberg

Reading starts with an Open Mike

Benjamin S. Grossberg’s books of poetry include My Husband Would (University of Tampa Press, 2020), winner of a Connecticut Book Award, and Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa Press, 2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. A new chapbook, As Are Right Fit, was just published by Harbor Editions (2024). He also wrote the novel, The Spring before Obergefell (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), which was selected by Percival Everett for the AWP Award Series James Alan McPherson Prize. Ben is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hartford.

Sarah Wetzel is the author of the chapbook, Elegies of Herons, forthcoming from Black Sunflowers Poetry Press. She is also the author of several poetry collections most recently The Davids Inside David, from Terrapin Books, as well as River Electric with Light, which won the AROHO Poetry Publication Prize and was published by Red Hen Press, and Bathsheba Transatlantic, which won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was published by Anhinga Press. When not shuttling between her three geographic loves—Rome, Italy, New York City, and Newtown, CT—Sarah is Publisher and Editor at Saturnalia Books and a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature in the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. www.sarahwetzel.com.

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West Hartford CT 06107

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WordHouse Schedule: Spring 2025

Upcoming readings...

All readings on Saturdays
Time: 2-4PM

June 28
Sarah Wetzel
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-

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