Online: Poems from CT's Four Corners POSTPONED

Join us online as we host an engaging lineup of Connecticut poets for an evening of poetry and community, led by Ridgefield Poet Laureate Emerita Barb Jennes.

Dianne Bilyak, a graduate of the Institute of Sacred Music and Arts, is a Connecticut disability rights advocate. Her poetry collection Against the Turning was published by Amherst Writers & Artists Press in 2011. Her work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Tampa Review, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere.

Victoria Buitron hails from Ecuador. Her debut poetry collection, Unburying the Bones—2025's VersoFrontera inaugural prize winner—will be published by Texas Review Press. A recipient of a 2023 Artistic Excellence Award form the CT Office of the Arts, she serves as series editor for the Connecticut Literary Anthology.

Michael Cervas taught high school English for 42 years, including 34 years at Westminster School, where he led the creative writing program. Although retired from full-time teaching, Michael directs two visiting writers programs. His four poetry collections, including Even Here (2020), were published by Antrim House Press.

Stanford M. Forrester is past president of the Haiku Society of America and founding editor of Bottle Rockets. He holds many honors for his haiku work, including the Museum of Haiku Literature Award. His latest book is designated driver, a collection of haiku, senryu and small poems. Stanford’s Japanese pen name is sekiro—“dew on a stone.”

Becky Rodia Schoenfeld’s poems have appeared in The Cream City Review, The Indiana Review, The Laurel Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Another Fire, was published by Adastra Press in 1997. She is Director of Publications and Editorial at a nonprofit that serves amateur radio and its practitioners.

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