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 9, 2015

Meditations In The Glass House Of A New Century With Connecticut Poet Laureate Richard Allen



Delving into the cultural, political and religious themes for which he is known, Connecticut Poet Laureate Richard Allen ushers in National Poetry Month tonight in New Canaan, reading from his newest book, This Shadowy Place (St. Augustine Press, 2014), winner of the 2013 New Criterion Poetry Competition.

Credited for applying the form to meditative, lyrical effect in charting the delicate transition from the last century to this, Richard makes atypical use of metered, rhyming poetry in Shadowy Place, which follows on seven earlier books, most notably Present Vanishing: Poems (2008)—winner of the 2009 Connecticut Book Award for Poetry, The Day Before: New Poems (2003) and Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected (1997). All three are published by Sarabande Books. Among numerous accolades for his work, Dick received a Pushcart Prize and a William Carlos Williams Poetry Prize Runner-Up (First Finalist) for Best American Poetry Book of the Year, as well as two poetry writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.

One of the most accomplished presenters (of his own and others’ poetry) in the United States, Dick performed twice at inauguration ceremonies for Governor Malloy. Judge for yourself as he reads his “The Horse Knows the Way” from a program at the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford, last year:



 A six-time contributor to The Best American Poetry series, Dick has also placed more than 900 pieces in magazines with varied focci: The New Yorker, The Hudson Review and The New Republic, with more recent contributions appearing—or soon to—in Emerson College’s Ploughshares, Tricycle (the long-standing Buddhist publication) and American Scholar

New Canaan’s Gwen North Reiss, along with members of the St. Mark's Poetry Group, which she directs, will also be celebrating the Month with their own material (including contributions from six student poets of New Canaan High School).
 
Gwen with photographer Pedro Guerrero

Gwen has a degree from the Yale College of Literature. She began her career in book publishing with Houghton Mifflin and has penned The Winter Lodge: A White Mountain Mouse Tail (Salem, 2008), a children’s book illustrated by David North. 

Her work has run in the Connecticut Review of Eastern Connecticut State University, the Atlanta Review and Rhino, a literary annual based in Evanston, Illinois. Her poem, “Illuminated” won the 92nd Street Y’s Rachel Wetzsteon Prize in 2012. Presently she works part-time at the Silvermine Arts Center and the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan.

Where:
Adrian Lamb Room
New Canaan Library
New Canaan, CT

When:
Thursday, April 9, 2015
7 PM

Contact:
The New Canaan Library, 203-594-5003; www.newcanaanlibrary.org
Register at http://goo.gl/T3DH21

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