An Evening with the State's New Poets Laureate

Event:

Date:

November 9th, 2022.

Time:

7:00 AM to 9:00 AM

Location:

Virtual via zoom

Contact:

Barb Jennes, barbjennes@gmail.com

Website:

https://ridgefieldlibrary.librarymarket.com/event/online-evening-states-new-poets-laureate

Join us for a virtual reading and talkback with newly appointed Connecticut State Poet Laureate Antoinette Brim-Bell and Jaida Taveras, the state’s first-ever Youth Poet Laureate. The two honored poets will read from recent works, share hopes for their roles as laureates, and answer questions from the audience – and each other.

Please register here to receive the zoom link: https://ridgefieldlibrary.librarymarket.com/event/online-evening-states-new-poets-laureate

Antoinette Brim-Bell is the author of These Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love, and Psalm of the Sunflower. She is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow, a recipient of the Walker Foundation Scholarship, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies. A sought-after speaker, editor, educator, and consultant, Brim-Bell is a Professor of English at Capital Community College.

Jaida Taveras attends Washington University, where she is majoring in philosophy. Jaida is a member of the university’s slam team and teaches poetry to students in the St. Louis area. At Naugatuck High School, she served as a student representative of the Connecticut State Board of Education, a writer with Poetry Ourselves, an orator with the American Legion, and a performer with the Poetry Out Loud recitation competition.

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