[Yale-readings] October 18: Favorite Poem Evening

[Kuhl, Nancy]

THE POETRY INSTITUTE - NEW HAVEN
Third Thursday Open Mic

Featuring Favorite Poem Blue Ribbon Panel
Christine Beck, Randall Horton, and Nan Meneely
moderated by Mark McGuire-Schwartz

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Our fourth annual Favorite Poem Evening is here!  Our Blue Ribbon Favorite Poem Panel members will read some of their favorite poems and tell us why these poems have special meaning for them.  And you can participate also. Come and read one of your favorite poems and hear others read theirs!

A retired professor of legal studies, Christine Beck will receive a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry degree from Southern Connecticut State University in 2013.  Her poem Sometimes He Comes Home Bloody won the Leo Connellan prize and was published in The Connecticut Review, 2011. Her chapbook of the same name is forthcoming from Pudding House Press. She is the programming director and President of the Greater New Haven Chapter of the Connecticut Poetry Society and a former professor of legal studies at the University of Hartford.

Randall Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award and most recently a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. Randall is a Cave Canem Fellow, a member of the Affrilachian Poets and a member of The Symphony: The House that Etheridge Built. Randall is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Haven. An excerpt from his memoir titled Roxbury is published by Kattywompus Press. Triquarterly/Northwestern University Press will publish his latest poetry collection Pitch Dark Anarchy in Spring 2013.

After graduating from FEMA, Nan Meneely migrated north to live what Baron Wormser calls "the poetry life",  emceeing open mics, administering a delicious summer writing sleepaway camp for Frost Place expats, writing blurbs, helping to oversee the Guilford Poets Guild and doing whatever else it takes not to have time to submit poetry to literary magazines.

Open Mic participants are encouraged this month to read a favorite poem, rather one of their own.  As usual, one poem per reader.  Tell us why the poem is special to you.  Four minute limit.  Of course, reading your own work is also fine.

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 members of the public (and even others).



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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