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11/07/2018 11:01 PMThe Clinton Art Gallery’s Poetry Place Sunday Series final event for 2018 will feature poets Patricia Barone, Greg Coleman, and Edwina Trentham. The reading will begin at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 18 in the Laurel Ann Olcott Art Center at 20 East Main Street, Clinton. The reading is free and open to the public, and also features a lively open mic, which offers audience members the chance to hear some local poets read their work. The space is small and intimate, so it is wise to come early to reserve a seat, as well as to sign up for the open mic if interested.
Wine, cold drinks, cheese and crackers, and a variety of sweets will be offered before and after the reading and during the break. Audience members will also have the chance to browse a selection of original art work and crafts, as well as many poetry books, all available for purchase. In addition to the Poetry Place Sunday Series, which will begin again in April 2019, the Clinton Art Gallery offers a variety of art and writing workshops throughout the year.
Barone has a masters’ degree from Wesleyan University and completed post graduate work at New York University. She taught English, and designed and taught a program for gifted and talented students in the Branford school system. She was a docent at the Yale Center for British Art for 10 years. She is also a painter and has exhibited extensively in shoreline galleries and other venues.
Barone founded the Clinton Art Gallery and is currently on its board of directors. She established and coordinates the Sunday Poetry Readings at the Poetry Place in the Clinton Art Gallery. She is a member of the Connecticut River Poets, which meets monthly to share poetry and also reads at local events and venues, including the Florence Griswold Museum and the Old Saybrook Historical Society. In October, Barone was appointed poet laureate of Clinton by the town’s Board of Selectmen.
Coleman is the owner of HeartStone Labyrinths, llc; a poet and writer; a political activist; and a master labyrinth designer and artist. He has held labyrinth/writing workshops at the Clockhouse Writers Conference at Goddard College and The Freshwater Poetry Festival, and poetry workshops at the Clinton Art Gallery’s Poetry Place on revision, writing a long poem, and Walking with Your Muse. He has created more than 100 intentional labyrinth designs, each with its own handbook that describes its intention and how to use it, and has given workshops on labyrinth design and using labyrinths to understand and work with abundance, grief, and finding one’s path throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.
For almost two years, he has written his weekly vigil letter, a commentary on the week’s political events. He lives with his wife Edwina Trentham and his cat Emily Jane in Moodus, where he creates new labyrinths, gives workshops, writes essays and poetry, and works with individual clients.
Trentham taught for 27 years at Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield, where she founded the poetry journal Freshwater. She was a visiting instructor in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Wesleyan University for 17 years and has taught a variety of workshops over the past twenty-five years. She was a fellow at Yaddo and has published work in a number of periodicals and anthologies. Her poetry won honorable mention in the 2004 Sunken Garden Poetry Festival National Competition, and she has given readings throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. A collection of her poetry, Stumbling into the Light, was published by Antrim House in 2004, and she was a featured reader at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival in June 2005. She was awarded a 2010 Solo Writer’s Fellowship from the Greater Hartford Arts Council and the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. Her chapbook, Dinner Parties, illustrated by Nancy Goodrich, was printed as a limited edition artbook in Spring 2018. She is a member of the Connecticut River Poets.
More information is available by calling Pat Barone at pattonybarone@aol.com or 203-627-4148.