Riverwood Poetry Series Hosts Mark Doty and Nadia Sims

Name: Riverwood Poetry Series Hosts Mark Doty and Nadia Sims
Start: 2026-04-08T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 29 Atheneum Sq N, Hartford, CT 06103-2903, United States

Schedule

Wed, 08 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

29 Atheneum Sq N, Hartford, CT 06103-2903, United States | Hartford, CT

Riverwood Poetry Series will host Mark Doty and Nadia Sims on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at 7 PM, in The Avery Theater at The Wadsworth, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut. Enter through the side entrance of the museum, 29 Atheneum Square North. An elevator is available to the theater.
You can pay for parking in the Front Street South garage, 62 Front Street. Free street parking is available after 6 PM.
There will not be an open mic this month.

The authors’ books will be available to buy for book signing & conversation, and beer, wine, soft drinks, and snacks will be available for purchase.
Bring a friend! Admission to the readings is Free of Charge.
Mark Doty has published ten books of poems, including Fire to Fire: New & Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. He is also the author of six books of nonfiction prose, most recently What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life. His work has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the T.S.Eliot Prize in the U.K., the Stonewall Book Award, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Whiting Writers Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Ingram-Merrill Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught in creative writing programs at Rutgers, Stanford, Princeton, Iowa, Columbia and New York University. He lives in the Hudson River Valley.
Nadia Sims is the Poet Laureate for the Town of Manchester. Currently, the poet is focused on spreading her message of grace across Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. Her three books, A Soft Place to Land, We Know the Dark, and Apostle, Interrupted are available on Amazon.