Thanks to George Cooksey from Guilford High School for organizing our annual poetry adventure along with Kate Summerlin who organized the event from the Guilford Poets Guild! We met Thursday the 11th to share the winning poems and the poets are gathered here from left to right: Anushree Ajgaonkar, Leila Ruser, Julia Shroers and Taylor Smith and their awards are listed below. Congrats to the wordsmiths!
Join GPG Members for a Fun Raiser today at 2pm! We are committing to presenting high quality, entertaining play readings for the Shoreline community.
We will be presenting a reading of SWAN SONG by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Norman Marshall on May 13th and acted by Julie Fitzpatrick and Norman Marshall.
Drinks and snacks at 2pm and the play will commence at 3pm.
The FUN RAISER will be held at 395 Nut Plains Road, Guilford, CT 06437 – bring a chair if convenient.
The story of the play concerns an elderly actor on the night of his final performance. In his cups, he falls asleep backstage in an inconspicuous place and awakens in the middle of the night to find himself locked in. The charwoman who cleans the theatre arrives and they begin a conversation about the theatre. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of Shakespeare and of the old actor in particular. Delightful interactions ensue.
RSVP john.brown.drama@gmail.com.
In the unfortunate event you are unable to attend, all is not lost – checks are welcome at the address above. 🤗
Tonight! Thursday May 11th from 6:30-8pm, the Guilford Poets Guild will host a quartet of talented young poets at its Second Thursday Poetry Reading!
We will meet in the Historical Room at the Guilford Library with an open mic at 6:30-7pm and the GHS Poets will share their winning poems from 7-8pm. Family, friends, and all poets are welcome!
Thanks to George Cooksey, English Department Chair at GHS, and Kate Summerlin, GPG Member, for arranging this exciting annual poetry event with us. Please register on the Guilford Library website to reserve your seat.
Join GPG Members for a FUN RAISER on Saturday May 13th at 2pm!
We are committed to presenting high quality, entertaining play readings for the Shoreline community.
We will be presenting a reading of SWAN SONG by Anton Chekov, adapted by Norman Marshall on May 13th, 2023 acted by Julie Fitzpatrick and Norman Marshall.
We’ll have drinks and snacks at 2PM and the play will commence at 3PM.
The FUN RAISER will be held at 395 Nut Plains Road in Guilford – let’s hope for sunshine and bring a chair if convenient.
The story of the play concerns an elderly actor on the night of his final performance. In his cups, he falls asleep backstage in an inconspicuous place and awakes in the middle of the night to find himself locked in. The charwoman who cleans the theatre arrives and they begin a conversation about the theatre. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of the theatre in general, and of the old actor in particular. Delightful interactions ensue.
RSVP john.brown.drama@gmail.com
In the unfortunate event you are unable to attend, all is not lost, checks are still welcome 🙂
On Thursday May 11th from 6:30-8pm, the Guilford Poets Guild will host a quartet of talented young poets at its Second Thursday Poetry Reading!
We will meet in the Historical Room at the Guilford Library with an open mic at 6:30-7pm and the GHS Poets will share their winning poems from 7-8pm. Family, friends, and all poets are welcome!
Thanks to George Cooksey, English Department Chair at GHS, and Kate Summerlin, GPG Member, for arranging this exciting annual poetry event with us. Please register on the Guilford Library website to reserve your seat.
The evening will begin with an Open Mic & we’ll hear poetry from Patricia Horn O’Brien and Ed Walker from 7-8pm.
Patricia Horn O’Brien helped in the establishment of Prison Hospice in three Connecticut prisons and facilitated poetry workshops with fellow poets at York Correctional Institution. She initiated the ongoing program, Paintings and Poetry, at Florence Griswold Museum. She is the author of a poetry collection, When Less Than Perfect is Enough, and is the co-author, with her son Richard Manders, of a memoir about their adoption story, The Laughing Rabbit: A Mother, a Son and the Ties that Bind. Her newest book, The Scatter and the Gap, is available in bookstores, through Ingram Books, from amazon.com or through the publisher. For more information, contact Patricia O’Brien at patriciaobrien1937@gmail.com and visit Grayson Books at http://www.graysonbooks.com.
Edward Walker is the author of 2 poetry collections. He is a resident of Guilford and has enjoyed his association with poets of the Guilford Poets Guild since the 1970s. His most recent book of Poems, Turtle Crossing, can be purchased here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/turtle-crossing-edward-walker/1143114458.
The evening will begin with an Open Mic & we’ll hear poetry from Patricia Horn O’Brien and Ed Walker from 7-8pm.
Patricia Horn O’Brien helped in the establishment of Prison Hospice in three Connecticut prisons and facilitated poetry workshops with fellow poets at York Correctional Institution. She initiated the ongoing program, Paintings and Poetry, at Florence Griswold Museum. She is the author of a poetry collection, When Less Than Perfect is Enough, and is the co-author, with her son…
The evening will begin with an Open Mic & we’ll hear poetry from Patricia Horn O’Brien and Ed Walker from 7-8pm.
Patricia Horn O’Brien helped in the establishment of Prison Hospice in three Connecticut prisons and facilitated poetry workshops with fellow poets at York Correctional Institution. She initiated the ongoing program, Paintings and Poetry, at Florence Griswold Museum. She is the author of a poetry collection, When Less Than Perfect is Enough, and is the co-author, with her son Richard Manders, of a memoir about their adoption story, The Laughing Rabbit: A Mother, a Son and the Ties that Bind. Her newest book, The Scatter and the Gap, is available in bookstores, through Ingram Books, from amazon.com or through the publisher. For more information, contact Patricia O’Brien at patriciaobrien1937@gmail.com and visit Grayson Books at http://www.graysonbooks.com.
Edward Walker is the author of 2 poetry collections. He is a resident of Guilford and has enjoyed his association with poets of the Guilford Poets Guild since the 1970s. His most recent book of Poems, Turtle Crossing, can be purchased here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/turtle-crossing-edward-walker/1143114458.
This poetry reading will be available only through ZOOM. There will be no in-person program. Do not register with the library. Between 6:15 and 6:30 EST click on the link here:
Join us for Guilford Poets Guild’s “Second Thursday” Poetry Series on March 9th at 6:30pm EST.
We’ll begin with an Open Mic & hear John Clancy’s work from 7-8pm. This program will be held on Zoom.
John Clancy is an OBIE award winning director and a partner in Clancy Productions, a critically acclaimed international theatrical touring and production company. He is the founding Artistic Director of The Present Company and a founding Artistic Director of The New York International Fringe Festival, North America’s largest theater and performance festival. His plays have won The American Shorts Contest, The San Francisco Playwrights Center Dramarama, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First and have been short-listed for the Julie Harris Playwrighting Award and the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award. He has directed six Scotsman Fringe First winning productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and two Best of the Fringe Award winning productions at the Adelaide Fringe. He served on the Advisory Council of The New York Theatre Experience, Inc., New York City’s preeminent resource center for downtown theater. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and was awarded The New York Magazine Award in 1997 for “creativity, enterprise and vision”. In 2002 he received a Glasgow Herald Angel for excellence in direction at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2007 Clancy Productions was awarded the inaugural Edinburgh International
Festival Award. He served as the Executive Director of the League of Independent Theater and Board President of the Independent Theater Fund. In 2014 he was inducted into the Indie Theater Hall of Fame and named as a Person of the Decade by http://www.indietheaternow.com .
He now lives and works in Mt. Carmel, IL and is the President of Little Pharaoh Enterprises, an arts consultancy firm that is dedicated to celebrating the art in the heartland.
GPG Member, Julie Fitzpatrick, remounts show from Guilford Performing Arts Festival 2021, All the World’s a Stage: A Guilford (Pandemic) Love Story, on February 12th at 4pm at First Congregational Church – 122 Broad Street in Guilford.
“All the World’s a Stage: A Guilford (Pandemic) Love Story” is a spoken word performance piece drawn from pandemic & love stories shared by more than 70 Guilford residents with writer/performer Julie Fitzpatrick. It is a community story full of heart, hope and honesty featuring: Stephanie Little Brown, Dana Canaveri, Alice Chen, Victoria Newman and Meg Teape with poetic narration by Fitzpatrick.
Christina Stevens will provide American Sign Language interpretation.
There will be a talkback following the presentation.
Seats are first come, first seated & they are free.
Donations for First Church’s Music Program will be gladly accepted.
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