Wintonbury Poetry Series (Virtual)

For its January reading, Wintonbury Poetry Series is pleased to have Brad Davis and Julia Paul read.

Brad Davis (MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts) is a California-born Canadian living in northeastern Connecticut. Poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, The Paris Review, Vallum, JAMA, Puerto del Sol, Brilliant Corners, Image, and many other journals. Brad’s most recent colletion is On the Way to Putnam: New, Selected, & Early Poems. A chapbook, Short List of Wonders, won the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, and a poem won an AWP Intro Journal Award and appeared in Puerto del Sol. braddavispoet.com

Julia M. Paul is author of two full-length collections, Shook, (Grayson Books) and Table with Burning Candle, (Cornerstone Press) and a chapbook, Staring Down the Tracks (The Poetry Box). Her poems are widely published in journals and anthologies. Her poem, Dear Coroner, How Could You Know, appears in the 2023 Pushcart Prize XLVII Best of the Small Presses anthology. About her latest book, the poet Ilya Kaminsky, says: “Deeply moving, this requiem, this elegy chronically the stages of grief through multiple lyric modes. These pages are as 
musical as they are heartbreaking.”

As a strong believer in poetry as a powerful and necessary form of communication, Paul leads the Riverwood Poetry Series, a long-running poetry reading series in Hartford, Connecticut. She is an elder law attorney in Manchester, Connecticut, where she also resides.
 

   We will have an Open Mic after the featured poet's readings.

   Teens are welcome to read at the Open Mic!

   The Wintonbury Poetry Series and Open Mic are hosted by Sitara Gnanaguru. Questions? Call Mara at 860-243-9721 or email her at mwhitman@libraryconnection.info.