Dec. 14: D. Walsh Gilbert and V. Penelope Pelizzon

WordHouse Reading Series
Saturday December 14, 2pm

D. Walsh Gilbert and V. Penelope Pelizzon

Reading starts with an Open Mike


A dual citizen of the Republic of Ireland and the US, Debbie Gilbert has written seven poetry collections, the most recent, Finches in Kilmainham and Misneach: A Story of Kidnap, Enslavement, and Colonialism (Grayson Books, 2024). Three-time Pushcart nominee, she serves on the board of the Riverwood Poetry Series and as co-editor of the Connecticut River Review.

V. Penelope Pelizzon’s fourth book, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye (Pitt Poetry Series, 2024) is a LitHub recommendation for 2024. Her first, Nostos, won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award; her second, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. She is also coauthor of Tabloid, Inc., a critical study of film, photography, and crime narratives. She is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. https://vpenelopepelizzon.com/

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Fall 2024 Series Schedule

Upcoming readings...

All readings on Saturdays
Time: 2-4PM

December 14
V. Penelope Pelizzon
Debbie Gilbert

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

-2024-

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