WordHouse Reading Series
Wednesday April 15, 6PM
Joseph Reynolds and Denise Abercrombie
Reading starts with an Open Mike
Denise Abercrombie’s work has appeared in Minnesota Review, Fireweed, Connecticut Review, Phoebe: Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory, and Aesthetics, Yale Global Health Review, Earth’s Daughters, English Journal, Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis, Writing on the Edge, and elsewhere. She helps coordinate Curbstone Foundation’s Poetry in the Julia de Burgos Park series in Willimantic. Denise teaches theater and creative writing at E.O. Smith High School, and lives in Storrs, CT.
Joseph Reynolds is a novelist, essayist, and professor, and the Founding Director of The Sancho Panza Literary Society, which holds writers’ residencies and workshops at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of the novel Make Dust our Paper, which was reviewed by Washington Post best book award winner Da Chen as “An instant classic; a major new talent has arrived.” His novella Run it Once is forthcoming in 2026. He has taught college in New England, Washington, DC, and Ireland, and as an undergraduate, he was an intern and speechwriter in the U.S. Senate office of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Reynolds is the editor-in-chief of New Square Literary Magazine, and its featured essayist. He is currently a visiting professor at Wesleyan University.
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: Spring 2026
Upcoming readings...
APRIL 15
Joseph Reynolds
Denise Abercrombie
MAY 20
Trace Peterson
Kate Rushin
JUNE 17
Karen Warinsky
Shou Jie Eng
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
APRIL 15
Joseph Reynolds
Denise Abercrombie
MAY 20
Trace Peterson
Kate Rushin
JUNE 17
Karen Warinsky
Shou Jie Eng
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-
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
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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