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!



Dec 18, 2017

Robert Roth: “In Our Essential Beauty And Defiance”


Hailed by Free Williamsburg for his rebellious, undiluted style reminiscent of Norman Mailer, Robert Roth’s poetry and assorted convention-rattling discourses on life, social justice, hierarchical presuppositions and many other subjects hits the senses like a stiff breeze at a time when exchanges over crucial issues too often get sidelined by fears of stoked, or even concocted sensitivities.  
 
Robert will be reading from Health Proxy (Yuganta Press, 2007) and Book of Pieces (2016) this Tuesday at Curley’s. Spanning 35 years of writing, his latest collection complements commentary and poetry with an interview and a libretto, and is released through And Then, his ad-free, reader-supported literary journal, which in the past has also published material by Rona D. Schenkerman and other PoemAlley members. 

Together with co-founder Arnold Sachar, Robert has used the annual (now in its third decade) as a platform to explore the ties between the individual and the political through relating experiences via art, photography, poetry or short prose. 

Robert currently resides in New York (check out this 2010 biographical interview with Dyske Suematsu on Vimeo) and likes to think of the PoemAlley community as “his home away from home”. 

The “Green Fuse” spring poetry celebration, a 2010 co-presentation of PA and Stamford’s Unitarian Universalist Congregation (Robert appears in the video highlights below at 5:29) is one of numerous area poetry activities to which he has contributed over the years:


You can get further details about Robert, his writing and social observations, as well as And Then here; reach Robert for information on ordering the latest issue at roblroth@gmail.com.

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