FREE - WordHouse Poetry - December 3, 2025

Schedule

Wed Dec 03 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

227 S Main St, West Hartford, CT, United States, Connecticut 06107 | Hartford, CT

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Join us at the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society for a FREE poetry reading on Wednesday, December 3 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm. Each program begins with an open mic and features two headlining poets. No registration is required and donations are greatly appreciated to support the not-for-profit museum. Please visit www.noahwebsterhouse.org/wordhouse-poetry/ for more information.


Benjamin Grossberg and Margaret Lloyd
Margaret Lloyd was born in Liverpool, England, of Welsh parents and emigrated to a Welsh immigrant community in central New York State. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, England. She is the author of five poetry books, most recently Sleeping in the Same World (Kelsay Books, 2024). Her poetry honors include a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, fellowships to Breadloaf and to Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, and a writing residency at Yaddo. Lloyd has also published widely in literary journals such as Poetry East, Willow Springs, New England Review, AGNI, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Stand, and Poetry Wales. Lloyd is Professor Emeritus at Springfield College, Massachusetts. Find more about Lloyd at her website: www.margaretlloyd.net
Benjamin S. Grossberg’s collections include My Husband Would (University of Tampa, 2020), winner of the Connecticut Book Award, and Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa, 2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. He also wrote a novel, The Spring before Obergefell (University of Nebraska, 2024), which also received a Lambda Literary Award. A new chapbook, As Are Right Fit, was recently published by Harbor Editions (2024). Ben is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hartford.
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