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!
Frank Chambers: The Spoken Word "Against The Howling Mob"
As president of the Fairfield County branch of the
Connecticut Poetry Society (now, in its forty-fourth year and spanning ten
chapters with the addition of Farmington Valley), tomorrow’s featured poet at
Curley’s is Frank Chambers, who will be reciting material drawn mainly from his
commitment to his family and, in particular, what he terms affectionately as “the
four young muses masquerading as children”.
Frank’s Open Mic program, which he has facilitated
faithfully for many years each month at the Stamford Barnes & Noble, has
been a valuable venue for expressions of hope, humor, honest outrage and
humanity by poets and essayists, not just from the immediate vicinity, but from as far
as across the nation and the world.
Situated appropriately enough in the downtown Stamford
Town Center retail/office complex (itself, just a few years younger than the
CPS, publisher of the annual Connecticut River Review), Open Mic’s regular outpourings of creative observation and dissent make for
a grounding counterpoint to a city which has become increasingly dizzy in its repeated submission to the celebrated vapidity of corporatized culture, a widespread trend dramatized to disturbing effect in this video version of progressive metal trio Rush's 1993 song "Nobody's Hero":
You can revisit the details of past
speakers here, here and here.
Frank has placed poetry in such publications asPostScript, Poetry
Emerging, Long River Run
(the members-only magazine of the CPS), A First Tuesday in Wilton and the 2006 PoemAlley
anthology Wednesdays at Curley’s (Turn of River Press).
Open Mic Poetry begins at 7:15 pm on the second Monday of
each month in the DVD and Music section on the main floor of the bookstore in
the Stamford Town Center mall:
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