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 as PostScript, 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:

Barnes & Noble

100 Greyrock Place, Suite H009
Stamford, CT 06906