Wintonbury Poetry Series (Virtual)

For its April reading, Wintonbury Poetry Series is pleased to have Elizabeth Thomas and Faith Vicinanza read.

Elizabeth Thomas is a published writer and arts educator for all ages. She has read her work throughout the U.S. and taught Poetry as Theater in the United Arab Emirates. Her heart and energy can be found these days writing memoir and poetry with older adults.

Faith Vicinanza is the inaugural Poet Laureate for Southbury, Connecticut, appointed in October of 2022. She has served as a Master Teaching Artist in Poetry for the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, as editor for several literary magazines, and as the founder and executive director of the Connecticut Poetry Festival (1997, 2001, 2003). Ms. Vicinanza is the author of four collections of poetry, is currently working on several new collections, and a memoir. A member of two national slam poetry teams, Ms. Vicinanza competed in National Slam Championships in 1994 and 1996. She was a member of the U.S. Slam Team that competed in Sweden in 1997, as well as the executive director of the 1997 National Poetry Slam Championships held in Middletown, Connecticut, the largest poetry event in the state’s history. Ms. Vicinanza has been featured in venues from Stockholm, Sweden to San Francisco, has been a poet laureate nominee for the state of Connecticut as well as the recipient of the 2003 Connecticut Commission on the Arts Advocates for the Arts Award. When she isn’t writing, she leads poetry and publishing workshops, works full-time as a cyber security professional for an international bank, paints and leads the occasional dot-painting workshops at galleries around the state, owns Vicinanza Studios and Gallery, and, oh yea, she dances.

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.