[Yale-readings] Reading: Connecticut’s Poet Laureate Antoinette Brim-Bell, 10/25, Yale West Campus

[Kuhl, Nancy]

You’re Invited to Be Our Guest on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 10:30 AM

The Yale University Women’s Organization Fall Series: Poetry as Emotional Truth

Yale West Campus Conference Center*



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Connecticut’s Poet Laureate Antoinette Brim-Bell, Connecticut’s 8th State Poet Laureate, is currently Professor of English at Capital Community College in Hartford. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections: These Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love, and Psalm of the Sunflower. A critically acclaimed author, Brim is “…..a fierce poet at the peak of her powers…” (Patricia Smith). We will have the opportunity to hear and discuss her poetry and learn about her role as poet laureate of Connecticut.

Everyone is invited to remain afterwards in the Center cafeteria to continue discussions with Brim and fellow audience members. Lunch is available for purchase.





Antoinette Brim-Bell (Antoinette Brim), Connecticut’s 8th State Poet Laureate, is the author of three full-length poetry collections:  These Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love, and Psalm of the Sunflower.  She is a Cave Canem Foundation Fellow and an alumna of Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA). Her poetry has appeared in various journals, magazines, textbooks, and anthologies, including Villanelles, 44 on 44: Forty-Four African American Writers on the 44th President of the United States, Not A Muse, and has appeared in Poetry Magazine and Poem-a-Day.  Additionally, Brim-Bell has published critical work, most notably, essays: “Living Behind the Numbers: A Statistic Muses about her Life” (National Association of African American Studies Monograph Series); “The Myopic Eye in Alice Walker’s ‘Flowers’” (Critical Insights: Alice Walker, Salem Press) and “Juxtaposed Dichotomies: the idealized white suburban pastoral, the surrealist tableau of black poverty & the women in between” (The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent, Haymarket Books).



A printmaker and collage artist, Brim-Bell exhibited both poetry and monoprints in Jazz: An exhibition of Poetry, Prints, and Photography at the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery in New Haven, CT, and Sheroes, in partnership with the Alliance of Women Veterans at the Grove in New Haven, CT.  She serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors of Indolent Arts Foundation based in New York City, is a past Board Member of OneWorld Progressive Institute, and a past President of the Board of Directors of the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT.





*DIRECTIONS TO THE WEST CAMPUS CONFERENCE CENTER:

If you are driving from the North or East (New Haven) Take I-95 South to exit 41 (Marsh Hill Rd). At the end of the exit ramp, take a left onto Marsh Hill Rd. At the next traffic light, take a left onto the West Campus Drive/I-95 Northbound entrance ramp. Stay in the right lane and check in at the Welcome Center for directions to the Conference Center.

If you are driving from the South or West (New York) Take exit 41 and go straight ahead at the exit ramp, across Marsh Hill Rd, onto the Northbound entrance ramp. Follow this to the fork, and stay in the righthand lane, and check in at the Welcome Center for directions to the Conference Center



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