Poets At Large in February

Poets at Large Readies for First Event of 2026!

Poets at Large will begin its seventh year on February 21 st at 7 p.m. at The Vanilla Bean Café, 450 Deerfield Road, in Pomfret, CT. That Saturday night poets Denise Abercrombie and Sean Frederick Forbes take the stage.

Abercrombie’s work has appeared in numerous publications including Minnesota Review, Fireweed, Connecticut Review, Phoebe: Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory, and Aesthetics, Yale Global Health Review, among others. She helps coordinate Curbstone Foundation’s Poetry in the Julia de Burgos Park series in Willimantic. Abercrombie teaches theater and creative writing at E.O. Smith High School, and lives in Storrs, Connecticut.

Forbes is widely published and is the author of Providencia. Forbes is an Associate Professor at UCONN and a summer instructor for the Yale Young Writers Workshop at Yale University.

There will be no admission charge for this winter/spring series, though donations are welcome. PAL Coordinator Karen Warinsky said, “Due to the generosity of our sponsors this season, we will be able to present these readings free of charge. We pay featured readers a small stipend for their time and travel. Our featured poets bring their books to sell, so we are hoping patrons will be generous in supporting the poets by buying their books.”

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. This reading is made possible by a donation from Linemaster Switch. Contact karen.warinsky@gmail.com to sign up for the open mic; 5-minute max as time allows.