Dye & Bleach House Poetry Series (3rd Thursday of the month)
FREE ADMISSION
(DONATIONS GRACIOUSLY ACCEPTED)
Steve Veilleux
The Season’s first session of the Dye & Bleach House Poetry Series will begin on January 16th. All sessions will take place in the Dye & Bleach House Community Gallery, 156 River Road, Willington, CT.
The Featured Readers for January 25th include Sarah Blanchard and Pat Mottola.
The show’s format will consist of two open mic segments as well as a segment for the featured artist. Intermission will give audience and poet the chance to meet one another and the opportunity to purchase signed publications.
The open-mic segments will provide the opportunity for audience members to read their own original work. We are planning to allow for two half-hour sessions, one at the beginning of the event, and the other at the end. Readers will be given up to five minutes to present, and we will have a signup sheet.
Sarah Blanchard
Sarah Blanchard’s award-winning fiction, non-fiction, and poems have appeared in many journals and podcasts including Calyx, Yankee, Welter, PenDust Radio, and Sixfold. She published a collection of short stories in 2023 and a psychological suspense novel in 2024. Her first book of poems, River, Horse, Morning was released in December. Her current project is another novel, a murder mystery set in Putnam. Sarah grew up in Connecticut and lived for 25 years in Pomfret, where she helped to found the Wolf Den Writers Group in the late 1980s. After two decades living elsewhere, she's come home to northeastern Connecticut. She is a member of the Connecticut Poetry Society, the Worcester County (MA) Poetry Association, Sisters in Crime, and the North Carolina Poetry Society. She lives in Putnam with her husband Rich while they build a new home in Woodstock.
Pat Mottola
Pat Mottola teaches Creative Writing at Southern Connecticut State University, where she earned both an M.S. in Art Education and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Pat is President of the Connecticut Poetry Society. Her work is published in journals across the country. On a global scale, she mentors Afghan women writers living in Afghanistan and beyond. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Under the Red Dress (Five Oaks Press), After Hours (Five Oaks Press), and A Town Like That (Grayson Books). Pat was the recipient of the prestigious CSCU system-wide Board of Regents Outstanding Teacher Award in 2019, as well as the J. Philip Smith Outstanding Teacher Award in 2021. Pat is the Poet Laureate of Cheshire, CT.
Writers who are interested in featuring should reach out to Steve Veilleux by email: Veilleuxs50@gmail.com or phone 860-324-4942.
Please join us for EC-CHAP’s NEW Spoken Word Series! This program is hosted by the "Eastern Connecticut Center for History, Art, and Performance" (EC-CHAP) and Steve Veilleux. Doors 6:00pm / Presentation 6:30pm. Free Admission - Donations Accepted
Soft drinks and snacks available. We are pleased to offer our exclusive "BYOB&F" model - Bring Your Own Beverage & Food TM (Wine & Beer Only - I.D. Required).
For more information, please call 518-791-9474.