[Wgcp-whc] Three upcoming readings by WGCP members

[Richard Deming]

Thursday, 25 April 2013
The Infinite Well - 123 Court Street, New Haven, CT
Open reading at 7:30pm - free parking

Jason Labbe is the author of the chapbooks Blackwash Canal (H_NGM_N BKS) andDear Photographer (Phylum Press), as well as poems in A Public Space, Boston Review, Poetry, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, American Letters & Commentary, and Handsome. He curates readings for Intercambio and teaches Creative Writing at SCSU in New Haven. He lives with his wife in Bethany, where he writes about books and art, practices the drums, and works on vintage British motorcycles. Also a musician, he directs the ever-expanding experimental music collective Snake Oil, whose new album, The Train is White and the Moon is Strong, will be out later this year.

Jason Camlot is the author of three collections of poetry, The Debaucher (2008),Attention All Typewriters (2005), and The Animal Library (2001). His critical works include Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic (2008) and the co-edited collection of essays, Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the Twenty-First Century (2007). A new collection of poems entitled What the World Said will appear with Mansfield Press in the fall. Jason teaches Victorian literature at Concordia University in Montreal. 

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Come see James Berger read from his book Prior. Together with Susan Holahan and Katie Yates.  
April 29 @ 6:30, at Mitchell Branch Library, 37 Harrison St, New Haven.  
 This event is co-sponsored by the New Haven Review and the Westville Village Renaissance Alliance.

Also, congratulations to Jim Berger and his new book.  You can read an interview with Jim here:
http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/news/15-questions-an-interview-with-james-berger-116/

 
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A BENEFIT FOR THE INSTITUTE LIBRARY
 “TWO ARTS”
 Poetry Reading and Painting Exhibition
Gray Jacobik and Charles Douthat
 May 3, 2013
You are invited to a benefit reading for New Haven’s Institute Library by two award-winning Connecticut poets who are also artists.  A selection of their paintings will be exhibited at the Library on the evening of the reading.  Gray and Charles will read in tandem on coordinated themes, creating an exciting four-part synergy of poetry and painting.  A ten dollar donation is requested.
 
The Institute Library
847 Chapel Street, Second Floor, New Haven, CT
Doors Open at 6:30.  Reading starts at 7:00.  Reception to follow
                                                               
 Gray Jacobik’s books include The Double Task (The Juniper Prize); The Surface of Last Scattering; Brave Disguises (AWP Poetry Prize), & Little Boy Blue (CavanKerry).  She’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts & the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. To learn more about Gray’s work as a poet visit grayjacobik.com; to view her abstract and non-objective paintings, visit grayjacobikartist.com.

 

 

 

Charles Douthat’s Blue for Oceans  won the L.L.Winship-Pen New England Award as the best book of poetry published by a New England writer in 2010.   His poems have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, & Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac.  Charles paints in acrylics, sometimes on recycled surfaces.  Read more and see images of his paintings at charlesdouthat.com

 

 
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