Connecticut Beat Poetry Festival 2008
Presented by The Spoken Word Series
for info:
www.myspace.com/beatpoetryfestival -
For a printable copy of schedule: Click Here beatpoetflyer.pdf
Sunday June 1, 2008
Harriet Beecher Stowe House Hartford, CT.
Social Justice 1PM-4PM
Moderated by Lerron Wright
POETS: Kate Rushin, Danelle Fiorentino, Tommy Baas/ Milwaukee W
Monday June 2, 2008
Wood Memorial Library South Windsor, CT.
Directors Pick
6:30PM-10PM
John Wahdams moderates an evening of his favorite poets. A reception follows.
Tuesday June 3, 2008
Webb Dean Stevens Museum Wethersfield, CT.
The Beat Goes On
6:30PM-10PM
POETS: Colin Haskins, Anita Pinatti, John Basinger, Amelia Matus/ Milwaukee WI.
Wednesday June 4, 2008
Charter Oak Cultural Center Hartford, CT.
Jack Kerouac Night
6:30PM-9:30PM
POETS, Ernie Blue, Lori Desrosier, Gregory Scott, Aleathia Drehmer / Painted Post NY.
Arch Street Tavern Hartford, CT.
Beat Inspired Comedy Open-Mic
10PM-1AM
Moderated by Stanley Lindh
Thursday June 5, 2008
Wood Memorial Library South Windsor, CT.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Night
A reception follows
6:30PM-9:30PM
Moderated by Terri Klein
POETS: Lynna Garber , Jim Deuchars / Pittsburgh PA.
Friday June 6, 2008
Hall Memorial Library Ellington, CT.
Women Beat Authors
6:30PM-9:30PM
Moderated by Julia Paul
POETS: Susan Allison ( poet and founder of The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown CT., Christine Beck, Kathryn Erlinger / Kansas City, MO., Chamys Crane / San Francisco, CA. ,Katharine Polenberg / Long Branch, NJ.
Federal Cafe Hartford, CT.
Beat Inspired Comedy Open-Mic
10PM-1AM
Moderated by Greg Scott
Saturday June 7, 2008
Faxon Branch Library West Hartford, CT.
William Burroughs
Crowd participation in experiments with cut-upsand a film with Tom Nicotera.
12PM-2PM
Russell Library Middletown, CT.
Buddhism and the Beats
During this reading, local poets will read samples of Buddhist-inspired Beat poetry and also from their own Beat-inspired works.
2:30PM-5:30PM - A reception follows.
Moderated by Stephanie Elliott
POETS : Larry DeMott, James Gardiner, Terri Klein, Roy Lisker, Tom Nicotera
The Buttonwood Tree Middletown, CT.
Allen Ginsberg Night
6PM-9PM
POETS: Lisa C. Taylor
Gatekeepers Tavern Middletown, CT.
73 Ferry Street
Charles Bukowski Night
10PM-1AM
Moderated by Yvon J. Cormier
POETS: Dyllan Blodgett , Zachary Moll Monroeville, Ohio, Jason "Juice" Hardung Ft. Collins CO, Frank Reardon / Alabama, Rob Plath / Long Island, NY, Jack Henry / Corona CA.
Sunday June 8, 2008
Mark Twain House Hartford, CT.
Reader's Choice
2PM-5:30PM
Moderated by Colin Haskins
POETS: Kathryn Kelly, Julia Paul, Yvon J. Cormier / Middletown, CT., JD Roland / Cortez, CO., Rebecca Schumejda / Kingston NY., Nathan Graziano / Manchester, NH.
City Steam Brewery and Cafe Hartford, CT.
Gregory Corso Night
6PM-9:30PM
Open Mic follows
Moderated by John Dorsey
POETS: Lisa LaTourette / Highlands, NJ., Dan Provost / Worcester, MA., Iris Applequist / Kansis City, MO.
www.myspace.com/beatpoetryfestival
June 14th 2008 -
Butterworth Hall- University of Hartford
1265 Asylum Ave. Hartford, CT
1 - 4 p.m.
Attention Poets - The CT Poetry Society invites members who have published books over the past two years from April 2006 to April 2008 to share their words and celebrate. The event is free and open to poets and the public as part of Connecticut Open House Day, the signature event for the Ambassador Program, a state initiative of the CT Commission on Culture and Tourism designed to instill pride in CT citizens and encourage them to share our state's treasures when freinds and family visit.
Contact CPS President Christine Beck 860-655-3263
or CPS publicist, Lorna Morris Cyr 860-584-2857 or email to cyrlm@sbcglobal.net Include Poet's name, Name of the book, and short bio for the newspaper.
The Connecticut Poetry Calendar
CLICK HERE
Started in spring 2005, the Ordinary Evening reading series features both emerging and established writers in a monthly reading at the Anchor Bar Mermaid Room, downstairs. Borrowing its name from the poem "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" by Wallace Stevens, the series aims to bring writers and audiences together in a no-fuss, informal environment to enjoy a little storytelling on a work-night. Readings are always on a Tuesday at 7pm, free of charge, both drinkers and teetotalers welcome.
This season's lineup offers an eclectic mix of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and drama from local and further-flung writers, including Laura M. MacDonald and Amy Bloom (10/16); Judith Baumel and Martha Cooley (11/13); and Robert Ackerman and Tom Gavin (12/11). For biographies, links to poems and other information, visit http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/.
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Carolyn Forche to read at the New England Poetry Club June 29th. For a list of the New England Poetry Club events, click here: http://www.nepoetryclub.org/events.htm
Sunday, June 29th, 4:00
Longfellow National Historic Site, East Lawn
105 Brattle Street , Cambridge
Golden Rose reading by awardee
CAROLYN FORCHE