March 23: Clare Rossini and Daniel Lawless

WordHouse Reading Series
Saturday March 23, 2pm

CLARE ROSSINI and DANIEL LAWLESS

Reading starts with an Open Mike


Clare Rossini has published three books of poems and recently co-edited an anthology titled The Poetry of Capital (University of Wisconsin, 2020). Individual poems have appeared in publications such as Paris Review, Plume, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, and Poetry, as well as in many anthologies, including The Best American Poetry series. She has received grants and awards from the State of Connecticut, the Minnesota Arts Board, the Bush Foundation, and the Maxwell Shepherd Foundation; has had residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, and the American Academy in Rome; and has taught at Carleton College, Trinity College, and in the Vermont College MFA program. https://www.clarerossini.com/

Daniel Lawless is the author of The Gun My Sister Killed Herself With; his current book, I Tell You This Now, was released in February 2024. Recent poems appear in FIELD, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Los Angeles Review, upsteet, SOLSTICE, Manhattan Review, Massachusetts Review, JAMA, and Dreaming Awake: New Prose Poetry from the U.S., Australia, and the U.K., among others. A recipient of a continuing Shifting Foundation grant, he is the founder and editor of Plume: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, Plume Editions, and the annual Plume Poetry anthologies.

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West Hartford CT 06107

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April 6: Pate Hale and Patrick Pritchett

WordHouse Reading Series
Saturday April 6, 2pm

PAT HALE and PATRICK PRITCHETT

Reading starts with an Open Mike


Pat Hale’s publications include the poetry collections, Seeing Them with My Eyes Closed and Composition and Flight. Her work appears in Naugatuck River Review, CALYX, Connecticut River Review, Lily Poetry Review, Freshwater, Thimble Literary Magazine, and other journals, and is anthologized in Forgotten Women, Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis, and elsewhere. She has been awarded CALYX’s Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize, the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, and first prize in the Al Savard Poetry Competition. She lives in Connecticut, where she serves on the board for the Riverwood Poetry Series.

Patrick Pritchett’s books of poetry include Sunderland (2023), Refrain Series (2020), Orphic Noise (2017), and SONG X (2014). His poems have appeared in Hambone, Lana Turner, New American Writing, and Talisman. He has also published numerous scholarly essays and book reviews on post-45 poets such as George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, Ronald Johnson, Gustaf Sobin, Michael Palmer, and Jorie Graham and has taught at Harvard University, Amherst College, and Hunan Normal University in China. Currently he lectures in Comp Lit at Rutgers University.

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
JforJames@aol.com
860-508-2810

Spring 2024 Series Schedule

Upcoming readings...

March 23
Daniel Lawless
Clare Rossini

April 6
Pat Hale
Patrick Pritchett

May 18
Richard Michelson
V. Penelope Pelizzon

June 1
Eric Hoffman
Steven Ostrowski

All readings on Saturdays
Time: 2-4PM

All readings begin with an Open Mike.

Noah Webster House
227 South Main Street
West Hartford CT 06107

WordHouse Reading Series History

-2024-

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 David 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