WordHouse Reading Series
Saturday October 19, 2p.m. – 4p.m.
Join us at the Noah Webster House for a series of FREE poetry readings, hosted by James Finnegan, West Hartford’s third Poet Laureate. These readings will take place from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. on September 28, October 19, November 9, & December 14.
Marilyn E Johnston and John L Stanizzi
John L Stanizzi – 15 books, most recently POND and SEE (Impspired Press U.K.) He’s been in CT Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Cortland Review, and others. Creative Non-Fiction in Potato Soup, After the Pause, and others. He received a Creative Non-Fiction Fellowship 2021 from CT Dept of Arts. Former New England Poet of the Year and Etherington Scholar at Wesleyan University. His story “PANTS” named best of 2021 by Potato Soup Journal. Last month, awarded first place in Ekphrastic Review’s Ekphrastic Marathon. Retired Lit. Prof. MCC, and retired English teacher/theater director, Bacon Academy.
Marilyn E Johnston’s third book, Downward Dreaming, was published in 2023 by Grayson Books. She is the author of two prior collections published by Antrim House and a chapbook published by Redgreene Press. Her poems have appeared in journals nationwide, including the South Carolina Review and Rattle and have garnered six Pushcart Prize nominations. In 1996, she co-founded the still popular Wintonbury Poetry Series in Bloomfield Library.
Read here for the most up to date information on speakers. All readings take place at the Noah Webster House and begin with an open mic. No registration is required. Each poetry reading is free and open to the public. Donations are greatly appreciated in order to support future programming at the Noah Webster House. The Noah Webster House will be open 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. during each reading and visitors are encouraged to purchase tickets to tour the historic home.
