POETS AT LARGE TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL POETRY MONTH AT THE VANILLA BEAN CAFE

word open mic and reading featuring Sandy Yannone. Yannone is the Poet Laureate of Old Saybrook, CT, and is the author of two collections: The Glass Studio (2024) and Boats for Women (2019), both published by Salmon Poetry in County Clare, Ireland.

She returned to Connecticut after a career teaching at Evergreen College in Seattle, WA. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, SWWIM Every Day, ABQ InPrint, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Ireland Review, Lavender Review, and Women’s Review of Books. Since March, 2020, she has hosted the weekly reading series Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry on Zoom via Facebook. Visit her at www.sandrayannone.com. 

Poets at Large, a group of poets who read in the tri-state area, is in its sixth year and is a part of Windham Arts. All events are ADA compliant. Admission to all Vanilla Bean is $15.00 which includes a raffle. All Poets at Large events are sponsored in part by Linemaster Switch, bank Hometown, WHZ Financial Advisors, the Putnam Area Foundation and Charter Oak FCU. Contact karen.warinsky@gmail.com to sign up for the open mic. 5-minute max as time allows.