WordHouse Reading Series
Saturday May 3, 2pm
Danielle Chapman and Ethan Rutherford
Reading starts with an Open Mike
Ethan Rutherford is the author of two story collections—Farthest South and The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories—and for these works has been named a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, a finalist for the John Leonard Prize and CLMP’s Firecracker Award, received honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and was the winner of a Minnesota Book Award. North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther is his first novel.
Danielle Chapman is a poet, nonfiction writer, and lecturer in English at Yale University. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Nation, Commonweal, and elsewhere. Her latest collection of poems, Boxed Juice (2024), and her memoir, Holler: A Poet Among Patriots (2023) were both released by Unbound Edition Press. Her previous collection of poems is Delinquent Palaces (Northwestern University Press, 2015). She teaches Shakespeare and creative writing and lives in Hamden, Connecticut with her husband, Christian Wiman, and their twin daughters, Fiona and Eliza.
Noah Webster House
227 South Main Street
West Hartford CT 06107
Free event. Please consider making a donation to Noah Webster House.
https://wordhousereadings.blogspot.com/
For more info, contact:
Jim Finnegan
JforJames@aol.com
860.508.2810
April 5: Julia M. Paul and Henk Rossouw
WordHouse Reading Series
Saturday April 5, 2pm
Julia M. Paul and Henk Rossouw
Reading starts with an Open Mike
Julia M. Paul is author of two full-length collections, Shook (Grayson Books) and Table with Burning Candle (Cornerstone Press) and a chapbook, Staring Down the Tracks (The Poetry Box). Her poems are widely published in journals and anthologies. Paul leads the Riverwood Poetry Series, a long-running poetry reading series in Hartford, CT. Her poem, Dear Coroner, How Could You Know, appears in the 2023 Pushcart Prize XLVII Best of the Small Presses anthology. About her latest book, the poet Ilya Kaminsky, says: “Deeply moving, this requiem, this elegy chronically the stages of grief through multiple lyric modes. These pages are as musical as they are heartbreaking.”
Henk Rossouw's debut Xamissa (Fordham University Press, 2018) won the Poetic Justice Institute Editor's Prize. The African Poetry Book Fund included his chapbook The Water Archives in the 2018 box set New-Generation African Poets: Tano. His poems have been in POETRY, Boston Review, World Literature Today, Iowa Review, Adroit Journal, and The Paris Review, among other places. He earned his PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Houston and his MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. An associate professor, Henk teaches creative writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and serves as a consulting editor for the African Poetry Book Series. From South Africa, he lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
Noah Webster House
227 South Main Street
West Hartford CT 06107
Free event. Please consider making a donation to Noah Webster House.
https://wordhousereadings.blogspot.com/
For more info, contact:
Jim Finnegan
JforJames@aol.com
860.508.2810
Saturday April 5, 2pm
Julia M. Paul and Henk Rossouw
Reading starts with an Open Mike
Julia M. Paul is author of two full-length collections, Shook (Grayson Books) and Table with Burning Candle (Cornerstone Press) and a chapbook, Staring Down the Tracks (The Poetry Box). Her poems are widely published in journals and anthologies. Paul leads the Riverwood Poetry Series, a long-running poetry reading series in Hartford, CT. Her poem, Dear Coroner, How Could You Know, appears in the 2023 Pushcart Prize XLVII Best of the Small Presses anthology. About her latest book, the poet Ilya Kaminsky, says: “Deeply moving, this requiem, this elegy chronically the stages of grief through multiple lyric modes. These pages are as musical as they are heartbreaking.”
Henk Rossouw's debut Xamissa (Fordham University Press, 2018) won the Poetic Justice Institute Editor's Prize. The African Poetry Book Fund included his chapbook The Water Archives in the 2018 box set New-Generation African Poets: Tano. His poems have been in POETRY, Boston Review, World Literature Today, Iowa Review, Adroit Journal, and The Paris Review, among other places. He earned his PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Houston and his MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. An associate professor, Henk teaches creative writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and serves as a consulting editor for the African Poetry Book Series. From South Africa, he lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
Noah Webster House
227 South Main Street
West Hartford CT 06107
Free event. Please consider making a donation to Noah Webster House.
https://wordhousereadings.blogspot.com/
For more info, contact:
Jim Finnegan
JforJames@aol.com
860.508.2810
WordHouse Schedule: Spring 2025
Upcoming readings...
All readings on Saturdays
Time: 2-4PM
April 5
Julia Paul
Henk Rossouw
May 3
Ethan Rutherford
Danielle Chapman
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
All readings on Saturdays
Time: 2-4PM
April 5
Julia Paul
Henk Rossouw
May 3
Ethan Rutherford
Danielle Chapman
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-
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
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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