BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Library Market//iCal Export//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Online: Poems From Connecticut's Four Corners UID:69099 DTSTAMP:20260413T205800Z DTSTART:20230202T000000Z DTEND:20230202T010000Z LOCATION:472 Main Street, Ridgefield , CT 06877, United States ROOM: Online DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of poetry, featuring readings by emergi ng and established poets from throughout Connecticut. Our February reading will feature poets representing each of the state’s four corners, plus one from the central Hartford area: Gemma Mathewson, Laura Mazza-Dixon, Cl audia McGhee, Garrett Phelan, and Jack Powers. Ridgefield Poet Laureate B arb Jennes will facilitate the event.\r\nThe ”Poems from Connecticut’s Four Corners” series takes place on the first Wednesday of each month a t 7:00. All readings are online. Register each month to receive the Zoom l ink.\r\nGemma Mathewson, a 30-year resident of North Guilford (Southeast C T), co-hosted The Poetry Institute at the Institute Library in New Haven f or several years, and currently co-hosts a community TV broadcast called The Art of Poetry” (formerly “Poetry of Immigrants”) on CT Valley Shore TV. Her poetry collection The Museum of Rain was published in 2019 b y Off the Common Books.\r\nLaura Mazza-Dixon (Granby, Northwest CT) – A classical guitarist, Laura is the author of Forged by Joy (Antrim House, 2 017). Her poem about Rohingya refugees, The Year in Pictures: A 2017 Trip tych, was chosen as a finalist in the 48th New Millennium Awards. Laura has organized many poetry series and workshops, including Poetry at the Co ssitt, Poetry in Our Lives, and Words Matter: Courageous Conversations on Race.\r\nClaudia McGhee (Coventry, Northeast CT) is a poet, fiction write r, journalist, eBook producer, and software technical writer. Claudia' ;s chapbook Paperlight (Finishing Line Press) was published in 2016. Her p oems have appeared in the Tiny Seed Journal, Connecticut Literary Antholog y, and the New Haven-based zine Circumference, among others. Claudia has been a featured reader at many venues.\r\nGarrett Phelan (Bloomfield, Ce ntral CT) is the author of Outlaw Odes (Antrim House) and the micro-cha pbooks Unfixed Marks and Standing where I am (Origami Poem Project).  A Pushcart Prize nominee, his poems have appeared in Slipstream, Potomac Review, Connecticut River Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, and elsewhere. Garret t has taught poetry in many venues, including a maximum-security prison in Connecticut.\r\nJack Powers (Fairfield, Southwest CT) is a semi-retired educator and the author of Everybody's Vaguely Familiar and, coming soon, Still Love. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The C ortland Review and elsewhere. He won the 2015 and 2012 Connecticut Rive r Review Poetry Contests and was a finalist for the 2013 and 2014 Rattle  Poetry Prizes. Visit his website: http://www.jackpowers13.com/poetry/.\r \nPlease register below to get the Zoom link. URL:https://ridgefieldlibrary.librarymarket.com/event/online-poems-connect icuts-four-corners-2 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR