Our poetry reading on November 12, 7 p.m. at the Greene Gallery (behind Whitfield’s on Guilford Green) will feature Guild members Carol Leavitt Altieri and Patricia O’Brien. Altieri is a conservation activist who recently won the State of Connecticut’s Green Circle Award for environmental projects. She has published three books of poetry: In Beijing, There Are No Dawn Redwoods; The Isinglass River; and The Jade Bower. O’Brien has facilitated poetry workshops at the York C.I. hospice program, and has been published in CT River Review, Embers, Pulp Smith, Fairfield County Magazine, Poet Lore, Caduceus and Red Fox Review. She has been awarded prizes from the Trumbull Arts Council and the Old Saybrook Acton Public Library.
There will be an open mic from 7 to 7:30, and refreshments will be served.

The Guilford Poets Guild will start out their fall series with a reading by poet Anne Harding Woodworth on Thursday, September 10, at 7:00 p.m in The Greene Art Gallery, 29 Whitfield Street (behind Whitfield’s on Guilford Green). Woodworth’s most recent book is Spare Parts: A Novella in Verse (Turning Point, 2008). Woodworth lived in Athens for four years, and she and her husband have travelled extensively in search of ancient sites. She is the author of two other books of poetry and two chapbooks, and is a member of the Poetry Board at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Refreshments will be served, and there will be an open mic beginning at 7:00 for the first 5 who sign up.

The Guilford Poets Guild has lost one of its longtime members, Richard Tietjen. He had been battling lymphoma for 14 years and seemed so resilient, a hardy walker, a special man with a brilliant mind. Recently he had been experiencing high fevers and was eventually diagnosed with leukemia. Early on the morning of April 20 he passed away peacefully, surrounded by friends and family. His obituary in the New Haven Register speaks of how he “followed his bliss writing poetry and working in farms and forests in southern Vermont and New Hampshire…returned to Shoreline Connecticut in 1982 and settled into a challenging and pleasurable job as a computer engineer for Dushkin Publishers and then McGraw Hill…developed a web site for the Shoreline Greenway Trail project…became a member of the Guilford Peace Alliance where he was known for reciting his poetry at their weekly vigils…[and] also was active in various poetry groups including the Art Place and the Yale Medical Group.”
Come and listen and share a poem you love.
The Guilford Poets Guild presents Elizabeth Thomas, Thursday, April 9th 7:00 – 9:00 pm.
Thursday, March 12, 7:00 p.m. at The Greene Art Gallery, 29 Whitfield St. (behind Whitfield’s Cafe), Guilford, CT. Sponsored by the Guilford Poets Guild. Admission is free and open to the public. Refreshments are provided. Contact: (203) 453-2036, 453-8836, or guilfordpoetsguild.wordpress.com. All readers welcome. Come and share one or two poems.