The Packing House Poetry Series (3rd Thursday of the month)
FREE ADMISSION
(DONATIONS GRACIOUSLY ACCEPTED)
Steve Veilleux
The October 19th show of The Packing House Poetry Series will feature CT native Barbara P. Greenbaum and Victoria Nordlund.
The show’s format will consist of two open mic segments as well as a pair of 15-minute slots for each of the featured artists. 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.
FEATURED WRITERS
BARBARA P. GREENBAUM has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine, Stonecoast and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Hartford. She taught creative writing at a public magnet arts high school in Willimantic, Connecticut for twelve years and served as an adjunct professor at Eastern CT State University. In 2011, she was awarded a Teaching Arts Fellowship from Surdna.
Her fiction, poetry and essays have been published or are forthcoming in: The Alembic, Arcturus, American Writer’s Review, The Binnacle, The Cape Rock, Crack The Spine, The Dos Passos Review, Eclectica, Fiction Fix, Forge, Hawaii Pacific Review, Ink In Thirds, Inscape, The Louisville Review, Pearl, Prick of the Spindle, The Massachusetts Review, Noctua Review, Slab, The Penmen Review, Verdad, and Willow Review, among others. She is the author of The Last Thing, a book of poetry published by Main Street Rag Publications, November 2022.
VICTORIA NORDLUND is the lead master teaching artist of the Nook Farm Writers Collaborative at The Mark Twain House & Museum. She is director of creative writing at Rockville High School in Vernon, CT and an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut. Her poetry collections Wine-Dark Seaand Binge Watching Winter on Mute are published by Main Street Rag. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize Nominee whose work has appeared in PANK Magazine, Rust+Moth, Chestnut Review, Pidgeonholes, Maudlin House, and other journals.
Writers who are interested in featuring should reach out to either Steve Veilleux (Veilleuxs50@gmail.com) or Tom Buccino (518-791-9474).
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.