Dec 10, 2011

PoemAlley Member Jim Janke Featured Speaker At Barnes & Noble on Monday, December 12

An enthusiastic conversationalist, Jim Janke is often the first to draw newcomers into PoemAlley's Tuesday night proceedings. A font of voluminous, often anecdotal knowledge encompassing pop culture, 20th century history and, in particular, his beloved hometown of Stamford, CT, Jim's writing infuses major events with a richly-observed personal touch.

1938 Hurricane
Ladybird Johnson comes to town, 1968



 Hosted by Frank Chambers, the Barnes & Noble's Open Mic Poetry program meets the second Monday of each month in the cooking section on the main floor of the bookstore (located in the Stamford Down Center), beginning at 7:15 p.m. To get a sense of Open Mic's flavor, see the video below of October's guest reader, Richard Duffee:


For more information, contact:
Barnes & Noble
Stamford Town Center
100 Greyrock Place Suite H009, Stamford, CT 06901

203-323-1248

Dec 6, 2011

Nick Miele To Participate In Writers' Opening Of New Fairfield University Bookstore

Join Nick Miele and other Fairfield University students tomorrow night as they celebrate the October opening of the university's new bookstore. Located on the site of the old Borders in downtown Fairfield, the new off-campus location is operated by Barnes & Noble and will be hosting "Stories, Stories, Stories", presenting selected essays, poetry and short fiction read by Nick and others newly-enrolled in the school's MFA in Creative Writing program.

Using his contributions to PoemAlley to dissect the subtlety with which the day-to-day and large-scale political worlds trade off one another's dysfunctionality, Nick works in Stamford, where he uses his Air Force background to provide technical analysis services at Aircastle, LLC, a company that leases and sells commercial jets to air carriers worldwide.
For a sampling of his poetry and literary commentary, go here, here and here. And don't forget to check out his blog, Wordsmiths: A Gaggle of Poets under "Associated Links" on the left.




Among the highlights of the evening will be excerpts from Where the Tall Grass Grows, a novel-in-progress set in Mali by award winning writer and editor, Adele Annesi. Nick's Ridgefield-based classmate also runs a monthly online workshop on editing from her blog, Adele M. Annesi and Word for Words, LLC at http://www.adeleannesi.com/Online-Writing-Workshop.html.

When:
Wednesday, December 7, 7 pm

Where:
Fairfield University Bookstore
1499 Post Road
Fairfield, CT 06824

Phone: 203-255-7756