Our treasurer, Linda Haviland Conte, has taken Third Prize in the Connecticut Poetry Society’s Connecticut River Review contest. You can find her poem and the judge’s comments here.
Please join us on Sunday, February 10th from 2 to 4 PM for our Members with New Books reading series. This month, our reading features Mary Buchinger, Diana Cole, Nellie … Read more
Bad Harvest by Dzvinia Orlowsky Publication date: October, 2018 | Carnegie Mellon University Press “Even after a bad harvest, there must be a sowing.” – Seneca the Younger This powerful sixth … Read more
Please join us on Friday, February 1 from 7-8 PM for an intimate poetry reading inside the historic carriage shed of The Old Manse. Ben Berman, Robbie Gamble, and Cindy Veach … Read more
Sheila Margaret Motton Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Daniel Legros Georges Fern and Shadow This severed earth, a veined vapor. Its name is prunes easily in water. Its name— fern and … Read more
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Danielle Legros Georges Wreck Janine, your head might have hit something in the car. Come to and quickly. Opening … Read more
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Krysten Hill In Real Life, They Are Dead My mother and sisters wave from the window of the train. They smile, … Read more
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize Co-Winner, selected by Krysten Hill The Bat How small it was— Crawling across the gravel drive, a mouse With arms grotesquely fanned, a faint Dark … Read more
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize Co-Winner, selected by Krysten Hill Human Geography We are stretched across borders. Parched, we gape for each other. What words we remember are lost in … Read more
Diana Der Hovanessian Prize, selected by Susan Barba Youth’s path unknown Watching a careless young bird fly over the fields, across the sky, we do not know from that … Read more