WordHouse Poetry!
WordHouse Poetry is a monthly series of free poetry readings at the Noah Webster House, located at 227 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT. Readings occur once a month on select Wednesdays from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Join host James Finnegan, West Hartford’s third Poet Laureate, for an evening of poetry at the National Historic Landmark home of Noah Webster!
Each program begins with an open mic and features two headlining poets. No registration is required and donations are greatly appreciated to support the not-for-profit museum. See below for information on future readings.
Bruce Cohen & Colin Harrington
Wednesday, October 14, 2026: 6:00 PM
(Reading starts with an Open Mic)
Colin Harrington is a former high school teacher in Amherst MA, a Museum Educator at MASS MoCA, North Adams MA and an Interpretive Guide at The Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst MA – he is the Author of the poetry chapbooks: Asking Me to See: Seven Poems of Japan (MidGard’n Press), Sweetheart Deals (New Feral Press), Draughts of Ink (Buddha Baby Press) and Notes From The Ionosphere (cafe Nietzsche press) – he lives in a timber framed house in the woods of Windsor MA with his wife Deborah Balmuth, and his furry cat named Pinky
Bruce Cohen has published six volumes of poetry: Disloyal Yo-Yo (Dream Horse Press), awarded the Orphic Poetry Prize, Swerve (Black Lawrence Press), Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep (Black Lawrence) and No Soap, Radio! (Black Lawrence), Imminent Disappearances, Impossible Numbers & Panoramic X-Rays (New Issues Press), awarded the Green Rose Prize, and Botrytis (Cornerstone Press). A new book, Please Don’t Touch the Art, is forthcoming from Madhat Press. His poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Harvard Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, etc., as well as being featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily & The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day. He received a Pushcart Prize and the James Olney Award from the Southern Review. Since 2012 he has taught creative at the University of Connecticut.
For more information on the WordHouse Poetry series, please contact:
Jim Finnegan
JforJames@aol.com
860.508.2810
https://wordhousereadings.blogspot.com/
*This is a Free event. Please consider making a donation to Noah Webster House.
Note: Wheelchair access is available at rear of Museum Center.
