Poets at Large Presents Finnegan & Kaci

Poets at Large will bring some new voices and their work to the area on Saturday night, May 16th , at 7 p.m. at The Vanilla Bean Café, 450 Deerfield Road, in Pomfret, CT. The featured readers that night will be West Hartford’s James Finnegan and Irena Kaci of Worcester, MA.

Admission is free and donations are welcome.

James Finnegan has published poems in Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, as well as in the anthologies: Good Poems: American Places edited by Garrison Keillor; Laureates of Connecticut; Shadows of Unfinished Things; Imagining Vesalius; Waking Up to the Earth; and Of Hartford in Many Lights. For a decade he served as president of the Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens (stevenspoetry.org). He posts aphoristic ars poetica on the blog ursprache https://ursprache.blogspot.com and maintains CT-lit, a state-wide email list that connects Connecticut poets to each other with updates on their achievements and activities.

Irena Kaçi is a poet and writer living in Worcester, MA with her spouse and two children and is a graduate of Clark University. She writes for Pulse Magazine, and is a Poetry Editor in Residence for the Worcester Writers’ Collective. She also serves as Executive Director for the Worcester County Poetry Association. Her work has appeared in the Worcester Review, Atticus Review, Blue Mountain Review and others.

Poets at Large has brought over 120 published and awarded poets to the area since 2020 and dozens of people have participated in the open mic portions during that time. Poets at Large is a project of Windham Arts. All events are ADA compliant and are recommended for ages 16 and up. Readings for the rest of the season are sponsored in part by donations from bankHometown, Charter Oak FCU, WHZ Financial and The Putnam Area Foundation. Contact karen.warinsky@gmail.com to sign up for the open mic; 5-minute max as time allows.