Same Time This Year

 Following her previous guest appearance in the Stamford area at Curley's Diner last October, last night's Barnes & Noble Open Mic program shared the work of featured poet Kaaren Whitney, a former Connecticut resident and contemporary universalist, who has run a homeopathic practice in the UK for more than forty years.
 
Devoted to the promotion of the environment and a reawakening of humanity's spiritual ties to it, Kaaren serves as a guardian of a local labyrinth and Tree Circle in England. Much of her work inspired by these themes can be found in Painting to Poem (2006), Leaves of Hope (2006), A Book of Graces (2009), Shades of Light and Dark (also 2009), as well as several anthologies. You can find her latest work on the prose and poetry webzine Ink, Sweat and Tears, to which she is a frequent contributor. Click on Bill Buschel's video above from her 2011 PoemAlley reading to get the flavor of her material and presentation.

A commended winner of the Fakenham Poetry Competition in 2008, Kaaren has read at the Halesworth Fringe Festival and other open mic events in the United States, the UK and as removed as Australia. Kaaren's work often accentuates the Living Wheel of the Year, an English website celebrating Celtic festivals and different aspects of nature culture.   

Hosted by Frank Chambers and PoemAlley's Nick Miele, Barnes & Noble Open Mic meets the second Monday of each month in the cookbook section on the main floor of the bookstore (located in the Stamford Down Center), beginning at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, contact:

Barnes & Noble

100 Greyrock Place Suite H009

Stamford, CT 06901

203-323-1248