Poets @ Large

Poets at Large Presents Schwartz and Reilley March 21st

Poets at Large will continue its seventh year on Saturday night, March 21st at 7 p.m. at The Vanilla Bean Café, 450 Deerfield Road, in Pomfret, CT. Featured poets that evening will be Christopher Reilley and Carla Schwartz.

Worcester poet Christopher Reilley is a two-time Pushcart nominee and former poet laureate of Dedham, MA. He is also a contributing editor at Acoustic Ink and was involved in print and book production for over thirty years, working for such companies as Xerox, EFI, Ricoh USA and Online Print Solutions and is a copywriter for the Bytesized Studios. His books are Grief Tattoos, Breathing for Clouds, One Night Stanzas, and his latest release, Pour Decisions, was inspired by his work as a bartender. All are available from Big Table Publishing. Reilley’s poems have appeared in a wide number of publications, including the Boston Literary Journal, Word Salad Poetry, Wild Winds, Coldnoon Travel Poetics and many others, as well as anthologies including Sanctuary, Hot Summer Nights and Silent Consciousness from Acoustic Ink. He also had a poem selected to be in the Lunar Codex, mankind’s first interplanetary library,
thanks to NASA and lunarcodex.org.

Carla Schwartz is a poet, filmmaker, photographer, and blogger. She lives half the year on an unbridged island in Lake Winnipesaukee, and the other half in the Boston area. Schwartz holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University. Her poems have appeared in Rattle and other journals and in her collections Signs of Marriage, Mother, One More Thing, and Intimacy with the Wind. Learn more at  https://carlapoet.com, or on all social media @cb99videos. Carla Schwartz received the New England Poetry Club E.E. Cummings Prize. 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. Readings for the rest of the season are sponsored in part by donations from bankHometown, Charter Oak FCU, WHZ Financial and The Putnam Area Foundation. Contact karen.warinsky@gmail.com to sign up for the open mic; 5-minute max as time allows.