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RIVERWOOD POETRY SERIES
at Wood Memorial Library
The Underwood
Café
entertaining and
thought-provoking poetry
in a relaxed, café-style atmosphere
Featured Poet, Open mic, Refreshments
Admission is free: donations gratefully accepted
on the last Thursday of every month:
September – November, 2009
January – May, 2010
at
Wood Memorial Library, South Windsor, CT
www.woodmemoriallibrary.org
783 Main St., South Windsor, CT
860-289-1783
Donations of
non-perishable foods will also be accepted for the benefit of St. Vincent de
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Tavern Night
DINNER~ENTERTAINMENT~DOOR PRIZES
Appetizer ~ green salad ~gourmet chicken /salmon ~ dessert
includes one
glass of wine; additional by donation
Pub
fun ~ Raffle ~ Bring a poem with food as theme or ingredient
Special appearance by singer Julia Kiley and pianist Joe Ganci
Tickets $30 (Seating is limited; buy now!)
Contact: riverwoodpoetry@yahoo.com or
Julia @ (860) 729-8861 or Kathryn @ (860) 748-3225
This
is a fundraiser to support the 3rd annual
Riverwood Poetry Festival to be held June, 2010
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Susan and James Finnegan
 Susan Bogle Finnegan earned her
MFA in Painting from Hartford Art School
at University of Hartford. She is
currently teaching art and painting at
the Hartford Art School. She is a member
of the Brickwalk Poets and her
poetry has won a Lila Wallace Writer's
Voice Award.
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Finnegan’s poems have appeared in
Ploughshares, Poetry East, The
Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly
Review & other literary magazines.
With Dennis Barone he edited
Visiting Wallace: Poems Inspired by the
Life and Work of Wallace Stevens
(U. of Iowa Press, 2009). Finnegan
founded an internet discussion listserv
called the NewPoetry List and he blogs
aphoristic ars poetica at
usrprache.
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 Elizabeth Thomas
is a widely published poet, performer and teacher.
The author of three poetry collections, she has read her work throughout the
United States . Much of her energy is devoted to designing and teaching
writing programs for schools and organizations throughout the country. These
programs promote literacy and the power of written and spoken word. She is
the founder of UpWords Poetry, a company dedicated to promoting programs for
young writers and educators, based on the belief that poetry is meant to be
heard out loud and in person. She hosts a website at
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 Kate Rushin
is
the author of The Black Back-Ups
(Firebrand Books).
Her “The Bridge Poem” appears in This Bridge Called My Back:
Writings by Radical Women of Color, a ground-breaking
feminist anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa.
Her work is widely anthologized and has been published in such
journals as Callaloo.
A Connecticut resident, Kate currently teaches
creative writing at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts.
Previously, she taught at Wesleyan University
as Associate Professor and Visiting Poet. She has read and
presented workshops at
HillStead Museum’s
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, and has led workshops for the
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and
Cave Canem Foundation. She has served as a judge for the
Connecticut State University-IMPAC Young Writers Award, the
Connecticut Poetry Circuit Student Poetry Contest, and the
NEA’s/Poetry Foundation’s
Poetry Out Loud. Kate received her B.A. from
Oberlin College
and her M.F.A. from
Brown University.
She is a former Fellow of The Fine Arts Work Center in
Provincetown and a graduate fellow of Cave
Canem Foundation.
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