POETS AT LARGE KICKS OFF ITS FALL SEASON

Worcester poet Tony Brown will help kick off the fall season of Poets at Large at The Vanilla Bean Café, 450 Deerfield Road in Pomfret.  Brown will be featured on Sept 28^th, followed by  Lee Derosiers on October 26^th with Christie Max Williams closing things out on November 23^rd.  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.

Brown has a long and lauded career as a poet, which includes being a seven-time Pushcart Prize and two-time Best Of The Net nominee, and an earlier life traveling the country as a slam poet.

He is the winner of the 2022 Stanley Kunitz Medal, endowed by the late US Poet Laureate and Worcester native and awarded annually to a poet for life achievement and service to the Central Massachusetts poetry community.  His most recent publications can be found through his Patreon site (https://www.patreon.com/TonyBrown).  Brown is also known for being a part of the jazz/rock/funk/poetry band “The Duende Project, which has seven released collections, available on all the usual online streaming and download outlets.   He is the Poetry Program director of the Shawna Foundation, and is the host of the Library Poetry Tour, among other creative endeavors

Poets at Large is a project of Windham Arts.  This series is sponsored in part by bankHometown, Charter Oak Federal Credit Union, and Weiss, Hale & Zahansky Strategic Wealth Advisors. The Vanilla Bean is ADA compliant.