THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN
Third Thursday Open Mic
August features New Hampshire Poet Laureate Walter E. Butts
When: Augut 18th, 2011
Doors Open at 6:30. Reading starts at 7:00.
Where: The Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT
Please arrive a few minutes early to sign up for the reading.
W.E. Butts is New Hampshire’s Poet Laureate (2009-2014). He is the author of nine poetry collections, including Radio Time (Cherry Grove, 2011), and Sunday Evening at the Stardust Café, which was chosen as a finalist for the 2005 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and selected winner of the 2006 Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize.
His poems have recently appeared in Cider Press Review, Poetry East, Saranac Review, and Tygerburning, the online journals www.connotationpress.com and www.towerjournal.com, and the anthology, An Endless Skyway: Poetry from the State Poets Laureate (Ice Cube Press). The recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations and a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award, he teaches in the low-residency BFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College.
On the third Thursday of each month, The Poetry Institute Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices.
