[Yale-readings] August 18, 2011: Poetry Reading Featuring W. E. Butts

[Kuhl, Nancy]

THE POETRY INSTITUTE - NEW HAVEN

Third Thursday Open Mic

Featuring W. E. Butts

August 18, 2011

W.E. Butts is New Hampshire's Poet Laureate (2009-2014).  He is the author of nine poetry collections, including Radio Time (Cherry Grove, 2011), and Sunday Evening at the Stardust Café, which was chosen as a finalist for the 2005 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and selected winner of the 2006 Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize. His poems have recently appeared in Cider Press Review, Poetry East, Saranac Review, Tygerburning, Connotation Press, The Tower Journal and the anthology, An Endless Skyway: Poetry from the State Poets Laureate.  The recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations and a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award, he teaches in the low-residency BFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College.
On the third Thursday of each month, The Poetry Institute Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices.  Free.  Refreshments.  Open mic.  Outstanding featured readers.  In a casual setting.   Open to all (even poets).


The Institute Library
847 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT
Doors Open at 6:30.  Reading starts at 7:00.
Please arrive a few minutes early to sign up for the reading.

Great Poetry!

In a Warm, Friendly Environment
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