Wintonbury Poetry Series

For its October 2025 reading, Wintonbury Poetry Series is pleased to have Luisa Caycedo-Kimura and Pat Mottola read.

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born writer, educator, and the author of All Were Limones (The Word Works, 2025), winner of the Hillary Tham Capital Collection competition. Other honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Emerging Recognition Award, a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at the Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net nominee, her poems appear in Four Way Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, Rattle, Mid-American Review, RHINO, and elsewhere. 

Pat Mottola teaches Creative Writing at Southern Connecticut State University, where she earned both an M.S. in Art Education and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. An award-winning poet and Pushcart Prize nominee, her work is published in journals across the country. Pat is President of the Connecticut Poetry Society, and she is the Poet Laureate of Cheshire, CT. She served as editor of Connecticut River Review from 2012–2017. On a global scale, she mentors Afghan women writers living in Afghanistan and beyond. She is the author of three collections of poetry: Under the Red Dress, After Hours, and A Town Like That. Pat was the recipient of the prestigious CSCU system-wide Board of Regents Outstanding Teacher Award in 2019, as well as the J. Philip Smith Outstanding Teacher Award in 2021.

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.