The Riverwood Poetry Series

has innovated many programs since our inception in 1997, all of them free to the public.

Programs:

• Connecticut Beat Poetry Festival

• Riverwood Poetry Festival

• One Soldier One Poem

• Poetry 101

• Paw-etry

• Ekphrastics

• Emerging Voices

• World Language poetry

• National Youth Qualifying Competition

• 2 current monthly series

• Non-perishable food collection

• 3 events for the Women Composers Festival and Society

• The Riverwood Poetry Series community partnered with the following organizations:

• The National Theatre of the Deaf

• The American School for the Deaf

• National Yellow Ribbon Foundation

• Fidelco guide dog service

• Women composers and festival society

• Saint Vincent de Paul place

• Portland Middle School

• Ye Olde Font Shoppe

• Upwords Poetry

• Greater Hartford Poetry Ensemble

• Meriden Humane Society

• Soul Friends

• The Queenie Foundation

The Riverwood Poetry Series has provided programs for the following venues:

• The Mark Twain House and Museum

• The Harriet Beecher Stowe House

• The Charter Oak Cultural Center

• The Webb Dean Stevens Museum

• Hall Memorial Library

• Wood Memorial Library

• Avon free Public Library

• Durham Public Library

• Russell Library

• Faxon Branch Public Library

• Buttonwood Tree Art Space

• Broad Street Books Store

• Unitarian Meeting House

• Klekolo Coffee Shop

• Tisane

• City Steam Café

• The Fernwood

• Arch Street Tavern

• Gatekeeper Tavern