The WordForge Reading Series Features Antoinette Brim & Kenneth DiMaggio

The WordForge Reading Series features Two Poets from Capital Community College: Antoinette Brim and Kenneth DiMaggio on February 13 at 7 PM. The WordForge Reading Series features local poets along with an open mike. All events are scheduled on Monday nights with a 7 p.m. start time. The location is Studio @ Billings Forge, 563 Broad Street, Hartford, CT 06106. Parking is available next to Firebox restaurant or along Broad Street.

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"Black Enough" included in "Villanelles." Anthology now available for pre-order!

Antoinette Brim's villanelle Black Enough is included in Villanelles edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali. The anthology is now available for pre-order through Amazon.com.

Description: The first of its kind--a comprehensive collection of the best of the villanelle, a delightful poetic form whose popularity ranks only behind that of the sonnet and the haiku. With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeating lines, its marriage of recurrence and surprise, the villanelle is a form that has fascinated poets since its introduction almost two centuries ago. Many well-known poets in the past have tried their hands at the villanelle, and the form is enjoying a revival among poets writing today. The poems collected here range from the classic villanelles of the nineteenth century to such famous and memorable examples as Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night," Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art," and Sylvia Plath's "Mad Girl's Love Song." Here too are the cutting-edge works of contemporary poets, including Sherman Alexie, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and many others whose poems demonstrate the dazzling variety that can be found within the parameters of a single, strict form.


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