]]> http://guilfordpoetsguild.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/come-hear-juliana-and-karen-in-november/feed/ 1 slopoet OH4W0067 Minister002 http://guilfordpoetsguild.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/maureen-corcoran-to-read-for-us-in-october/ http://guilfordpoetsguild.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/maureen-corcoran-to-read-for-us-in-october/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:07:49 +0000 slopoet http://guilfordpoetsguild.wordpress.com/?p=333 Continue reading →]]> The Guilford Poets Guild proudly presents poet Maureen Corcoran for their Second Thursday Poetry Series event on Thursday, October 13, 7 p.m. at the Greene Art Gallery, 29 Whitfield in Guilford. The reading will be preceded by an open mic from 7 to 7:30 p.m.

Maureen Corcoran was born in Bethesda, Maryland, and earned degrees from the University of Rhode Island and Wesleyan University. She has resided in Guilford, Connecticut for 30 years, where she raised two children. She was a founding member of the Guilford Poets Guild, and owns and manages Breakwater Books on the historic Guilford Green. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Wellspring, Slant, Sycamore Review, Calyx, and Caduceus. Her chapbook Almost Beautiful was published by Finishing Line Press in 2009.

The reading is free and open to the public.  Refreshments are served.  For more information call 453-8836.

Tim Mayo holds an ALB, cum laude, from Harvard University and an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars.  Among the many places his poems and reviews have appeared are Atlanta Review, Avatar Review, Babel Fruit, The Brattleboro Reformer, 5A.M., Inertia Magazine, Poetry International, Poet Lore, Redheaded Stepchild,  Verse Wisconsin, Verse Daily, Web Del Sol Review of Books, The Worcester Review and Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac.

His chapbook The Loneliness of Dogs (Pudding House) was a finalist in the WCDR 2008 Chapbook Challenge in Ajax, Ontario, Canada, and his first full length collection The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press) was a semi finalist for the 2009 Brittingham and Pollock Awards and a finalist for the 2009 May Swenson Award.

He has been twice nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology, once for a Pushcart Prize and was chosen as a top finalist for the Paumanok Award. He lives in Brattleboro, Vermont where he substitute teaches in the public school system and at the Brattleboro Retreat Meadows School and where he also works on the Author Selection and Planning Committee for the Brattleboro Literary Festival.

The reading is free and open to the public.  Refreshments are served.  For more information call 453-8836.

Barbara Purcell is a young and up-coming poet whose full-length book Black Ice Poems has already garnered five stars on Amazon. Her “fresh and gritty” poems have been read at various venues in New York City.  ”She writes straightforwardly of bulemia, nude modeling, love betrayed, and early warning signs of things amiss.  There are no fake notes here,” according to critic Colette Inez. Purcell also teaches yoga.

The reading is free and open to the public.  Refreshments are served.  For more information call 453-8836.

In front, Karolina Heleno, Sonya Zhou, and Sarah Eppler-Epstein; in rear Emily Espinal, Jaclyn Triebel, Jesse Iassogna, and Conor Reichart.

The student winners of the annual poetry contest at Guilford High School, whose names were revealed during the high school’s annual Poetry Day, will be the featured readers at the Guilford Poets Guild’s Second Thursday Poetry Reading at the Greene Art Gallery on Thursday, April 14 at 7 pm.  First prize went to Sonya Zhou for her poem, “metro-north,” second prize to Sarah Eppler-Epstein for “Miscalculations,” and third prize was given to Helen Brechlin for her poem “Back Broken.” In addition, in a separate contest funded by GPG member Gordy Whiteman, Jaclyn Triebel was awarded a  prize for the best poem about Guilford (“Guilford Train Station”). Honorable mentions  for the poetry prize went to Emily Espinal, Rebecca Hasenfeld, Karolina Heleno, Jesse Iassogna, and Conor Reichart. The evening reading is open to the public, and the first half hour will be an open mic. Refreshments will be served.  The Greene Art Gallery is at 29 Whitfield Street (Guilford) behind Whitfield’s restaurant. We hope to see you there!

See the publicity we received about this contest in the Guilford Courier for April 28, 2011.

Allen is one of the founders of Expansive poetry, a movement that started in the 1980s, and his numerous poetry collections include Present Vanishing: Poems (2008) and Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected (1997). He has won the Robert Frost Prize for Poetry, the Hart Crane Poetry Prize, the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Poetry Prize, the May Caroline Davis Poetry Prize from the Poetry Society of America, the San Jose Bicentennial Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was the Director of Creative Writing and Charles A. Dana Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Bridgeport until his retirement in September 2001. In 2010 he was named poet laureate of Connecticut and will serve in that position through 2015.

There will be an open mike from 7-7:30 p.m. and refreshments will be served.

In the meantime you can enjoy our Poets’ Corner in the Guilford Town Hall. This season’s offering, poems about birds, features poems by Guild members Julie Harris, Pat O’Brien, Gordy Whiteman, Sharon Olson, Gwen Gunn and Margaret Iacobellis. The display also features photographs by Audrey Fitting and will be on display through early February 2011.

Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely says she’s getting the hang of retirement after twenty gratifying/distressing years with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Among other wonderfully small-town volunteer activities, she chairs the Guilford Poets Guild. Her poems and articles have appeared in Blueline, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Washington Post.

Sharon Olson moved to Guilford in July 2008 from Palo Alto, California, where she worked as a librarian for the Palo Alto City Library for 29 years. Her full-length book of poems, The Long Night of Flying, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2006. Her work has appeared most recently in Arroyo Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, and The Sand Hill Review.