POETS AT LARGE CONTINUES ITS FALL SEASONAT THE VANILLA BEAN CAFÉ

Poets at Large will continue their fall series on Oct 26 th at The Vanilla Bean Café, 450 Deerfield Road, Pomfret, CT. That evening Massachusetts poet and publisher Lee Derosiers will be the featured reader.

Desrosiers (they/them) is a native New Yorker who has lived in western Massachusetts for the past 30 years. They are the editor of The Naugatuck River Review and Wordpeace, an E-zine. Derosiers holds an MFA in poetry from New England College and teaches writing at Westfield State University and Poetry at Lesley University’s MFA program.. They have three full-length collections from Salmon Poetry; The Philosopher’s Daughter (2013), contains poems about their parents, and a “rather eccentric family” and about their journey out of domestic abuse; Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak (2016), about “music, voices, time and memory,” and Keeping Planes in the Air (2020), a volume about “loss, ghosts, aging and ephemera.”

These Saturday evenings of spoken word and poetry are from 7-9 p.m. Admission is $15.00 and includes a give-away. Poets at Large is a regional group of poets who read in CT and MA, now in its fifth year. Contact Poets at Large coordinator Karen Warinsky if you are interested in reading in the open mic at karen.warinsky@gmail.com. There is a 5-minute limit for open mic readers and these events are recommended for ages 14 and up.

Poets at Large is a project of Windham Arts. The Vanilla Bean is ADA compliant.