Moods for Moderns: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Poetry: Seminar/Workshop: Part II (NWL)

SATURDAY - (2 of 2 sessions) In support of “West Hartford Reads!” Brent Terry, Adjunct Professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University, conducts two consecutive Saturday morning poetry classes titled, "Moods for Moderns, Reading and Writing Contemporary Poetry.” In the first session, recent poems were read and discussed, and a fun take-home poetry writing assignment was given. In this second session, participants will read and discuss the poems they have created.

Note: Anyone may attend session two and listen to the poems.

Brent Terry's Bio
Brent Terry’s poems, stories, essays and reviews have appeared in dozens of magazines and journals.  He is the author of the poetry collections yesnomaybe (Main Street Rag, 2002) and Wicked, Excellently (Word Tech, 2007).  His new collection, Troubadour Logic,will be published by Main Street Rag this October, and his novel, The Body Electric, is forthcoming in 2019 from Unsolicited Press.  He is the winner of the 2017 Connecticut Poetry Prize from the Connecticut Poetry Society, and has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the CT Council of Arts and Tourism.  Terry lives in Willimantic, where he teaches creative writing at Eastern Connecticut State university.

PARKING: There is ample library event parking in the nearby Isham Garage. Please bypass the garage kiosks and come directly to the Noah Webster Library Meeting Room, 20 South Main Street, where you may validate your parking with your license plate number.

WEST HARTFORD READS! - This program is being held as part of a series of poetry events leading up to the Oct. 4 appearance of Billy Collins at West Hartford Town Hall.

The event is made possible by the Thomas F. Kilfoil Memorial Bequest, West Hartford Public Library Foundation.