A Garden of Verse at the Keeler Tavern Museum

Event:

Dates:

Starts on June 27th, 2022 and occurs every 2 weeks on Mondays until August 22nd, 2022.

Time:

7:00 PM

Location:

Keeler Tavern Museum, 152 Main St, Ridgefield

Contact:

Ridgefield Poet Laureate Barb Jennes

Website:

barbjennes@gmail.com

Bring a lawn chair and a picnic dinner and join the following poets on these nights:
June 27: CT Poet Laureate Margaret Gibson, with H.E. Fisher
July 11: Formalists Kyle Potvin and Meredith Bergman
July 25: Milford Poet Laureate Joan Kwon Glass, and Jordan Franklin
August 8: Westchester Poet Laureate B.K. Fischer, and Suzanne Frischkorn
August 22: Spouses!: Aaron and Luisa Caycedo-Kimura; Laurel Peterson and Van Hartmann.

3/26

Poets At Large Features G. John Brand & Barb Jennes
Brand & Jennes to Read

3/31

Ekphrastic Workshop
Let Art Inspire You to Write!

4/1

Ekphrastic Writing Workshops
View local artists’ work, and write a poem!

4/1

New Event
Southbury PL Book Launch!

4/2

4 CT Poet Laureates
Celebrate National Poetry Month with 4 PLs

4/2

Branford Arts Hosts CT River Poets Plus Margaret Gibson
Celebrate the Beauty and Power of the Spoken Word.

4/5

Bessy Reyna to Read and Lead Discussion on Race
Special Racial Equity Book Club Hosts Coventry Poet Laureate

4/5

Poems from Connecticut's Four Corners
Five Connecticut poets share their work

4/11

Open Mic at Woodbury Public Library
Share your poetry in celebration of National Poetry Month!

4/12

Collegiate Poets of CT – Winners of the 2023 College Circuit Competition
Hear the work of award-winning CT college poets

4/14

A Discussion of Alicia Suskin Ostriker's Poetry
Pegi Shea leads Discussion of Poet's Work

4/18

Celebrate Earth Day Open Mic
Open Mic of Nature Poems

4/23

Covid Anthology Launch Party
Three Laureates Lead Community Poetry Book Launch

4/29

Celebrating Poetry
Workshops, Readings, Panels, Music!

4/29

Waterbury Symphony & Cantata to Marilyn Nelson's "Fortune's Bones"
Music Composed to Poetry Book About CT Slave

5/3

Poems from Connecticut’s Four Corners
Five Connecticut poets share their work

5/6

Ekphrastic Writing Workshops
View local artists’ work, and write a poem!

6/3

Ekphrastic Writing Workshops
View local artists’ work, and write a poem!

6/22

Julia de Burgos Series Poetry Series
Featuring Kate Rushin and Brad Davis (with Sara Green)