Dye & Bleach House Poetry Series (3rd Thursday of the month)
FREE ADMISSION
(DONATIONS GRACIOUSLY ACCEPTED)
Steve Veilleux
Welcome to the Dye & Bleach House Poetry Series!. All sessions will take place in the Dye & Bleach House Community Gallery, 156 River Road, Willington, CT.
The Featured Readers for February 20th include Claudia McGhee and Janet E. Aalfs.
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.
Claudia McGhee
Claudia McGhee has dealt in and with words for decades as a software technical writer, poet, fiction writer, journalist, eBook producer, and editor. Thomas Lux said of Claudia's chapbook, Paperlight (Finishing Line Press):
“There are many ways to read the simple but loaded title, Paperlight. I choose to read it as light on a page being some-thing written on that page. I choose the affirmative light. And this book’s pages are washed in the light of lucid, piercing, and original poems.”
Claudia has studied with Billy Collins, Carolyn Forché, Dana Gioia, Marie Howe, Kate Knapp Johnson, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux, and Paul Violi. Most recently, her poems appeared in Tiny Seed Journal, Voices of the Grieving Heart anthology, the New Haven-based zine Circumference, and her local Neighbors newspapers. Claudia loves attending open mics, and was one of the poets featured in the online “Poems from Connecticut’s Four Corners” program sponsored by the Ridgefield Library (CT). While her technical writing has been translated into six languages and distributed worldwide, now that she is retired, she is working hard to ensure her words read properly in American English.
Janet E. Aalfs
Janet E. Aalfs is a multidisciplinary artist, arts educator, and activist. Poet laureate of Northampton, MA (2003-2005), 8th-degree black belt, and healing movement instructor, Janet is founder and director of Lotus Peace Arts at Heron's Bridge/Valley Women's Martial Arts, a non-profit community school since 1977. She is the recipient of awards for her teaching as well as prizes for her poetry, and has been featured at many events including the Dodge Poetry Festival. Janet enjoys performing spoken word combined with martial arts dance that she calls Poemotion©. Her poems have been widely published, including 3 full-length collections, most recently What the Dead Want Me To Know (Human Error Publishing, 2022), and several chapbooks.
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.