WordHouse Reading Series
Wednesday October 14, 6PM
Colin Harrington and Bruce Cohen
Reading starts with an Open Mike
Colin Harrington is a former high school teacher in Amherst MA, a Museum Educator at MASS MoCA, North Adams MA and an Interpretive Guide at The Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst MA - he is the Author of the poetry chapbooks: Asking Me to See: Seven Poems of Japan (MidGard'n Press), Sweetheart Deals (New Feral Press), Draughts of Ink (Buddha Baby Press) and Notes From The Ionosphere (cafe Nietzsche press) - he lives in a timber framed house in the woods of Windsor MA with his wife Deborah Balmuth, and his furry cat named Pinky.
Bruce Cohen has published six volumes of poetry: Disloyal Yo-Yo (Dream Horse Press), awarded the Orphic Poetry Prize, Swerve (Black Lawrence Press), Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep (Black Lawrence) and No Soap, Radio! (Black Lawrence), Imminent Disappearances, Impossible Numbers & Panoramic X-Rays (New Issues Press), awarded the Green Rose Prize, and Botrytis (Cornerstone Press). A new book, Please Don’t Touch the Art, is forthcoming from Madhat Press. His poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Harvard Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, etc., as well as being featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily & The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day. He received a Pushcart Prize and the James Olney Award from the Southern Review. Since 2012 he has taught creative at the University of Connecticut.
Noah Webster House
227 South Main Street
West Hartford CT 06107
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For more info, contact:
Jim Finnegan
JforJames@aol.com
860.508.2810
WordHouse Schedule: FALL 2026
Upcoming readings...
OCT 14:
Colin Harrington and Bruce Cohen
NOV 18:
Margaret Gibson and Sandra Yannone
DEC 16:
Lee Derosiers and Jeanine DeRusha
All readings on Wednesdays
Starting Time: 6PM
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
OCT 14:
Colin Harrington and Bruce Cohen
NOV 18:
Margaret Gibson and Sandra Yannone
DEC 16:
Lee Derosiers and Jeanine DeRusha
All readings on Wednesdays
Starting Time: 6PM
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
-2026-
SEPT 23: David Thacker and Nadia Sims
June 17: Shou Jie Eng and Karen Warinsky
May 20: Trace Peterson and Kate Rushin
April 15: Joseph Reynolds and Denise Abercrombie
March 18: Judith Liebmann and Jefferson Singer
Feb 18: Scott Frey and Angela Siew
-2025-
Dec 3: Margaret Lloyd and Benjamin Grossberg
Nov 5: Monica Ong and Virginia Shreve
Oct 15: Ciaran Berry and Srini Mandavilli
Sept. 17: Dennis Barone and Luisa Caycedo-Kimura
June 28: Sarah Wetzel
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
Previous series: The Charter Oak Readings
SEPT 23: David Thacker and Nadia Sims
June 17: Shou Jie Eng and Karen Warinsky
May 20: Trace Peterson and Kate Rushin
April 15: Joseph Reynolds and Denise Abercrombie
March 18: Judith Liebmann and Jefferson Singer
Feb 18: Scott Frey and Angela Siew
-2025-
Dec 3: Margaret Lloyd and Benjamin Grossberg
Nov 5: Monica Ong and Virginia Shreve
Oct 15: Ciaran Berry and Srini Mandavilli
Sept. 17: Dennis Barone and Luisa Caycedo-Kimura
June 28: Sarah Wetzel
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
Previous series: The Charter Oak Readings
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