Writing For Democracy This Evening In Norwalk

Laurel Peterson

A movement that started on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday this year, involving writers from across the country to “re-inaugurate” democracy, continues today in a three-hour program at Norwalk Community College.

Writers Resist at NCC is organized by Norwalk’s Poet Laureate Laurel Peterson and NCC professors Rebecca Hussey and Hannah Moeckel-Rieke, featuring area authors reading from their own works, or that of other admired writers who have something significant to say about the preciousness of open society and its sustenance.

 

Hannah Moeckel-Rieke

Drawing on the voices and writings of close to thirty participants, this program will include NCC President Dr. David Levinson, CT Poet Laureate Rennie McQuilkin, novelist Joanne Dobson (author of the Professor Karen Pelletier mystery series),  Santia Rene, Editor of Musings, as well as PoemAlley members Ralph Nazareth, Susan Cossette Eng (Peggy Sue Messed Up… and Other Poems [Princess Press, 2017]), Dr. Marianela Medrano and  Richard Duffee (The Slow News ofNeed [Yuganta Press, 2008]).

 

Rennie McQuilkin

In a time of growing anti-intellectualism and multi-media distraction masquerading as social discourse, Ralph makes a pointed defense in this 2009 Bent Pin interview for the invaluable necessity of poetry as a reflective and inescapably empathetic means to delve into the heart of that which affects our lives, those of others, our society and our world:

The readings will be broken up with musical interludes provided by Greg and Madeleine Golda.

Our democracy is at risk. Growing public cynicism and an alarming disdain for truth is eroding our most dearly-held democratic ideals. As writers we have tremendous power to bypass empty political discourse and focus public attention on the ideals of a free, just, and compassionate society. 

The event is free and open to the public. All are welcome. 

Where:

Norwalk Community College

East Campus Atrium
188 Richards Avenue 
Norwalk, CT

When:

4:00-7:00

Thursday, April 27^th, 2017

Contact:

203-857-7000