Poets @ Large

Poets at Large is happy to announce their first free poetry/spoken word event of the season will
be on June 15th, 2-4 p.m. in the barn at Roseland Park, 205 Roseland Park Road, Woodstock, CT.

This is the sixth year for the regional group to bring poets to the park. Featured will be the
emerging voices of younger poets Eric Petersen, Sarah St. George and Kashawn Taylor.

Featured Open Mic reader will be Atom Cyrus Rush. Sign up for open mic at karen.warinsky@gmail.com. 5- minute limit as time allows.

Eric Petersen is a social worker and resident of Gardner, MA and the author of Brutal Rhymes for Brutal Times. Petersen’s work covers struggles with depression, substance abuse, parental alienation and divorce, and he has published in several anthologies and publications including Silkworm 17 and Many Voices -One Stage.

Sarah St. George works in education and is the host of the Rose City Poetry Series in Norwich, CT. Her poetry has been featured in several journals and anthologies including Vext Magazine and Alabaster and Mercury. She explores complex themes such as loss and trauma with a hint of absurdist humor.

Kashawn Taylor is a formerly incarcerated writer based in CT.  He holds a BA in English and Psychology and an MA in English and Creative Writing, and is currently pursuing an MFA.  His poetry, fiction, and essays have been or will be published by such journals and magazines as The Meadow, Lucky Jefferson, Oyster River Pages, The Shore Poetry, and Poetry Magazine, among others. His full-length collection of “prison” poetry, subhuman., was released by Wayfarer Books in March 2025. 

Poets at Large is a project of Windham Arts. Roseland Park’s barn is ADA compliant. This series is sponsored in part by bankHometown, Charter Oak Federal Credit Union, Linemaster Switch, Weiss, Hale & Zahansky Strategic Wealth Advisors and The Putnam Area Foundation.