The Clinton Art Gallery Poetry Place Continues 2018 Sunday Series
On Sunday July 22, The Clinton Art Gallery will feature Connecticut poets D. Walsh Gilbert and John Stanizzi in the fourth reading of the 2018 Poetry Place Sunday Series. The reading, in the Laurel Ann Olcott Art Center at 20 East Main Street in the heart of Clinton, begins at 2 p.m., is free and open to the public, and includes an open mic session. Refreshments will be served.
The Poetry Place Sunday Series is celebrating its third season. In addition to the rich variety of poets who have read at the Gallery, many talented poets have shared their work during each month’s open mic. Audience members are also offered the chance to view and purchase fine art work and crafts featured in the gallery. During the break for wine, cheese, and sweets, attendees will be introduced to a variety of art and writing workshops offered at the gallery throughout the year.
Audience members are encouraged to arrive early to sign up for the open mic and find a seat.
Gilbert grew up in southern New Hampshire and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1979 with a degree in chemistry. She has two grown daughters and currently lives in Farmington with her husband and two dogs. Her brother died by suicide in September 2012, and Gilbert now advocates for mental illness, addiction, and suicide awareness whenever she can. Some of the poems she will read are from her chapbook, Ransom, published last year by Grayson Books, poems which deal with her brother’s suicide.
Stanizzi’s full-length collections are Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, and Hallalujah Time!, and High Tide-Ebb Tide. He’s had poems in Prairie Schooner, American Life in Poetry, Connecticut River Review, New York Quarterly, Tar River, Rattle, Poet Lore, Hawk & Handsaw, and many others. His work has also been translated into Italian and appeared in Italy’s El Ghibli, and in the Journal of Italian Translations Bonafinni. His translator is the poet Angela D’Ambra. He teaches literature at Manchester Community College in Connecticut. He lives in Coventry with his wife, Carol.
For more information, contact Pat Barone at pattonybarone@aol.com or 203-627-4148.