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.

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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

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