Tuesdays at Curley's

Welcome to PoemAlley, Stamford, Connecticut's eclectic venue for poets, poetry reading and discussion! Open to anyone living in Fairfield County and the surrounding area, we meet Tuesday nights at 7:30 pm at Curley's Diner on 62 Park Place (behind Target) . Come contribute, get something to eat, or simply listen!



Apr 18, 2013

Working Over “Language’s Sly Do-Overs” In New Haven


  • This evening's open mic guest at The Poetry Institute—New Haven has penned several volumes, most recently the prose poetry collection Jargon (Quale Press, 2010), following 2009’s And How to End It (Quale Press). Brian Clements is founding editor both of Firewheel Editions (small press publisher of the 2009 anthology An Introduction to the Prose Poem, which Brian co-edited with Jamey Dunham) and the journal Sentence: a journal of prose poeticswhose ninth issue, featuring contributions by Jeff Allessandrelli, Alexios Antypas, Kerry Banazek and Eric Burger, contains reviews, themed poetry, translations.
  • Brian’s writing is credited with reveling in the places where we all settle into “language’s sly do-overs”—those cultural forms of rhetoric and narrative argument that make the world familiar, yet tend to abandon us when we need them
    most, such as in times of war/economic collapse, or during more personal trials, like the onset of age, even as we persevere to emerge from the dark places to see sunlight, once more.
  • A Professor of Writing, Linguistics, and Creative Process, Brian also coordinates the MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University.

Find out more about Brian and his work in the following interview by Cheryl Pallant at the UK site The Argotist here. The Weekly Rader posts his expansive piece "Basketball Benediction" here.

An eclectic celebration of the form, The Poetry Institute’s Open Mic Poetry program meets the third Thursday of each month in the warm setting of the New Haven-based Young Men’s Institute Library reading room on the second floor, beginning at 7:00 pm (please arrive early to sign up to read). Refreshments are served. 

For more information, contact The pi-New Haven at:

The Institute Library
847 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT

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