Riverwood Poetry Series Hosts Martha Collins and Charles O. Hartman
Schedule
Wed Dec 11 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
Location
56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT, United States, Connecticut 06106 | Hartford, CT
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Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways will host Martha Collins and Charles O. Hartman on Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 7 PM, at Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor Street, Hartford, ConnecticutAn open mic will precede the featured readers—one poem, one page please. Open mic is capped at the first 10 readers who sign up.
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! Free of Charge. Ample parking available at Real Art Ways.
Martha Collins has published eleven books of poetry, most recently Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh, 2022) and Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019); the latter won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. She has also co-translated five volumes of Vietnamese poetry, most recently Dreaming the Mountain by Tuệ Sỹ, with Nguyen Ba Chung (Milkweed, 2023), which was a PEN America Poetry in Translation Award finalist. Collins founded the U.Mass. Boston creative writing program and for ten years served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin. Her website is marthacollinspoet.com
Charles O. Hartman has published eight collections of poetry, including Downfall of the Straight Line (Arrowsmith Press, 2024), as well as books on jazz and song (Jazz Text, Princeton 1991) and on computer poetry (Virtual Muse, Wesleyan 1996). His Free Verse (Princeton 1981) is still in print (Northwestern 1996), and Verse: An Introduction to Prosody was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2015. In 2020 he co-edited, with Martha Collins, Pamela Alexander, and Matthew Krajniak, a volume on Wendy Battin for the Unsung Masters series. He is Poet in Residence Emeritus at Connecticut College. He plays jazz guitar.
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Where is it happening?
56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT, United States, Connecticut 06106Event Location & Nearby Stays:
