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.
Noah Webster House
227 South Main Street
West Hartford CT 06107
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https://wordhousereadings.blogspot.com/
For more info, contact:
Jim
JforJames@aol.com
860-508-2810
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
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
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
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
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