THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN
Third Thursday Open Mic
Featuring Charles O. Hartman
When: February 17th, 2011
Doors Open at 6:30. Reading starts at 7:00.
Where: The Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT
Join us for a reading by Charles Hartman, Poet in Residence at Conn College. Widely published, Professor Hartman studies and practices poetry, jazz, and computer programming, and all three find their way into his classroom. He is co-founder with Wendy Battin of the Contemporary American Poetry Archive (CAPA), where out-of-print volumes of poetry are preserved on-line and can be accessed free of charge by anyone with internet access.
Of his work, Jazz musician Steve Swallow writes, “Charles O. Hartman is a musician’s poet. Those of us who spend our time looking for melodies, and for ways to hang them together, recognize that same impulse in his work; his poems sound like the best Tin Pan Alley songs, graceful and concise. His cadences are as unforced as Lester Young’s, and his language as refined. These verses sing.”
On the third Thursday of each month, The Poetry Institute Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices. Free. Refreshments. Open mic. Outstanding featured readers. In a casual setting. Open to all.
