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January, 2025
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Poetry Rocks Vernon
Date:
January 26th, 2025.
Time:
1:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Location:
Arts Center East, 709 Hartford Turnpike, Vernon
Contact:
Pegi Deitz Shea, pegideitzshea@aol.com
Website:
www.artscentereast.org
Poetry Rocks will hold a writing workshop called "Poetry as a Lantern in Darkness." Inaugural Poet Laureate of Manchester, Julia M. Paul, will guide participants on ways to express their wide range of feelings about loss through poetry. At 3:00pm there will be a reading featuring Paul and Scott Frey. Both poets are parents who have lost children. The reading will also feature two Rockville High School student poets who have experienced loss.
Julia M. Paul is author of two full-length collections, Shook, (Grayson Books) and Table with Burning Candle, (Cornerstone Press) and a chapbook, Staring Down the Tracks (The Poetry Box). Her poems are widely published in journals and anthologies. Her poem, “Dear Coroner, How Could You Know,” appears in the 2023 Pushcart Prize XLVII Best of the Small Presses anthology. As a strong believer in poetry as a powerful and necessary form of communication. Paul leads the Riverwood Poetry Series, a long-running poetry reading series in Hartford, CT. She is an elder law attorney in Manchester, where she also resides.
Scott Frey is a poet and educator who grew up in Beaver Falls, Pa, and lives in Granby. His recent work has been published in Passages North, december magazine, The Adroit Journal, Bellevue Literary Review, and The Missouri Review, where he received the Perkoff Prize for poetry. His chapbook, Strange Vigil, was a winner in the Black River Chapbook Competition and will be published by Black Lawrence Press in 2025. His book, Heavy Metal Nursing, won the Tampa Review Prize. He and his wife, Meryl, run a non-profit charity, The Charlotte Frey Foundation, whose mission is to help children with multiple handicaps and life-threatening illnesses and their families improve their quality of life. Visit him online at
scottfrey.org
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