Sept 17: Dennis Barone and Luisa Caycedo-Kimura

WordHouse Reading Series
Wednesday September 17, 6PM

Dennis Barone and Luisa Caycedo-Kimura

Reading starts with an Open Mike


Dennis Barone is a Professor Emeritus in English at the University of Saint Joseph. In 2024 he edited Of Clouds and Mists, poems by Pascal D’Angelo, and co-edited with Deborah Ducoff-Barone Of Hartford in Many Lights: Celebrating Hartford’s Buildings. In 2025 he edited Poets’ Poets: A Renaissance of Words and authored Far-Dale: New and Selected Poems. Stage Fright: Fifty-Five Stories will be published in 2026.

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born writer, educator, and the author of All Were Limones (The Word Works, 2025), winner of the Hillary Tham Capital Collection competition. Other honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Emerging Recognition Award, a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at the Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net nominee, her poems appear in Four Way Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, Rattle, Mid-American Review, RHINO, and elsewhere.

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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

Sept 17: Dennis Barone and Luisa Caycedo-Kimura

Oct 15: Ciaran Berry and Srini Mandavilli

Nov 5: Monica Ong and Virginia Shreve

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-

June 28: Sarah Wetzel and Benjamin Grossberg

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

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