THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN 

Third Thursday Open Mic

May features Poet James Arthur

When: May 16th, 2013

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. 

James Arthur’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, and The American Poetry Review. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, and a residency at the Amy Clampitt House. His first book, Charms Against Lightning, was published by  Copper Canyon Press in 2012 as a Lannan Literary Selection. James is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Starting in September, he will be an Assistant Professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

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.

THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN 

Third Thursday Open Mic

November features Poet Brian Clements

When: April 18, 2013

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. 

Brian Clements is the author of several books of poems—most recently Jargon, prose poems from Quale Press. He is the editor of the anthology an Introduction to the Prose Poem and founding editor of the journal Sentence: a journal of prose poetics and of the small press Firewheel Editions. He coordinates the MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University.

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.

THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN 

Third Thursday Open Mic

March features Poet Charles Rafferty

Charles Rafferty is the Director of the MFA in Writing at Albertus Magnus University.   He received a 2009 NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well as a grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism. He is also the author of four full-length collections of poetry: The Man on the Tower (which won the Arkansas Poetry Award ” University of Arkansas Press, 1995), Where the Glories of April Lead (Mitki/MitkHe Press, 2001), During the Beauty Shortage (M2 Press, 2005), and A Less Fabulous Infinity (Louisiana Literature Press, 2006). He has placed poems The Southern Review, Measure, TriQuarterly, Quarterly West, Massachusetts Review, Phoebe: The George Mason Review, DoubleTake, Poems & Plays, and Louisiana Literature. His work has also appeared in several anthologies, including American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University Press), Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology (University of Evansville Press), and Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets (University of Evansville Press). By day, he works as an editor for a technology-consulting firm.

When: March 21, 2013

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. 

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.

THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN 

Third Thursday Open Mic

February features Poet Yibing Huang

When: February 21, 2013

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. 

Yibing Huang studied at Beijing University from 1983 to 1993, receiving his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Chinese Literature. During the same decade he also quickly established himself as a poet under the penname “Mai Mang,” and was closely associated with a new generation of young poets who were based in Beijing. He moved to the U.S. in 1993 and holds a second Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Professor Huang’s poetry has been published in China since the 1980s, and is included in many prestigious anthologies, such as The Anthology of Beida Poetry, The Best Chinese Poetry 1998 , The Annual Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry 1998, The Anthology of Major Chinese Poets in the 1990s, and The Best Chinese Poetry 2003 .  His published works include the Chinese-English bilingual book of poetry, Stone Turtle: Poems 1987-2000, and a substantial collection of his early poetry, Approaching Blindness,which came out in the fall of 2005.

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.

THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN 

Third Thursday Open Mic

January features Poet Nancy Fitzhugh Meneely

When: January 17th, 2013

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. 

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.

THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN 

Third Thursday Open Mic

November features Poet Ken Cormier

When: December 20th, 2012

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. 

Ken Cormier is a teacher, performance poet, independent radio producer, and musician.  He is the author of two collections of stories and poems: Balance Act and The Tragedy in My Neighborhood.  He has released three CDs of original music: God Damn Doghouse, Radio-Bueno, and Nowhere Is Nowhere.  Ken’s live performances have been described as “a  William Burroughs exorcism through a Karaoke machine.” Ken co-founded and edited The Lumberyard, a radio magazine of poetry, prose and music, which aired weekly in Connecticut from 2005-2008.  Ken is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Quinnipiac University.

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.

THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN 

Third Thursday Open Mic

November features Poet Julia Story

When: November 15, 2012

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. 

Feature: Julia Story

Julia Story is the author of Post Moxie, which was the recipient of Sarabande Books’ 2009 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and Ploughshares’ 2010 John C. Zacharis First Book Award. Her recent work has appeared in The Paris Review, Octopus, and Denver Quarterly

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.

THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN 

Third Thursday Open Mic

Featuring Favorite Poem Blue Ribbon Panel

Christine Beck, Randall Horton, and Nan Meneely

Thursday, October 18, 2012

 Our fourth annual Favorite Poem Evening is here!  Our Blue Ribbon Favorite Poem Panel members will read some of their favorite poems and tell us why these poems have special meaning for them.  And you can participate also. Come and read one of your favorite poems and hear others read theirs!

Open Mic participants are encouraged this month to read a favorite poem, rather one of their own.  As usual, one poem per reader.  Tell us why the poem is special to you.  Four minute limit.  Of course, reading your own work is also fine.

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. 

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.

THE POETRY INSTITUTE – NEW HAVEN 

Third Thursday Open Mic

November features Poet Jonas Zdanys

When: September 20th, 2012

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. 

Jonas Zdanys, a bilingual poet and translator, is the author of forty
books, written in both English and in Lithuanian. His most recent book is The
Kingfisher’s Reign, a collection of prose poems, published in 2012.  He has received a number of prizes and awards, including Lithuania’s Jotvingiai Prize awarded by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, the Lithuanian Writers Union Prize for Translation, the Lithuanian Writers’ Society Prize for Best Book of the Year, the Phillips Poetry Award, and the Weinstein Memorial Creative Writing Award.  He also was honored with an exhibition about his life and literary work by the National Library of Lithuania.

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.