WORCESTER POET TO READ AT ROSELAND PARKIN WOODSTOCK AT FINAL 2025 FREE EVENT

Worcester poet John Hodgen will bring his talents to Roseland Park in Woodstock, CT, at the last free poetry event of the 2025 Poets at Large season. Hodgen will read along with Catherine DeNunzio of Ledyard, CT. These seasoned poets will perform on Sept. 7 th at Roseland Park in the barn at 205 Roseland Park Road in Woodstock, CT. The event will be held from 2:00- 4:00 p.m. Poets at Large is a regional group of poets who read in CT and MA, now in its sixth year.

John Hodgen is the Writer-in-Residence at Assumption University in Worcester, MA, and Advisory Editor for New Letters at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.  Hodgen won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry for Grace (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005).  His fifth book, The Lord of Everywhere, is out from Lynx House/University of Washington Press, and his new book, What We May Be, is forthcoming also from Lynx House.  He has won the Grolier Prize for Poetry, an Arvon Foundation Award, the Yankee Magazine Award for Poetry, the Bluestem Award, the Balcones Prize, the Foley Prize, the Chad Walsh Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal, the Collins Prize from Birmingham Poetry Review, and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award in Poetry.  

Ledyard’s Catherine DeNunzio is the author of Enough Like Bone to Build On (Antrim House 2022). Her poems have appeared in The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from The Robert Frost Place, Connecticut Literary Anthology, Delmara Review Connecticut River Review, Italian Americana, Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Scapegoat Review, and Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis. She has poems forthcoming in Delmarva Review.

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 18 and up.

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