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March, 2010

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Event:

Poetry on the Line

Date:

March 14th, 2010.

Time:

2:00 PM

Location:

Windsor Art Center

Contact:

860 688-2528

Who: Poets, Ginny Lowe Connors and Jim Kelleher and a program of Celtic music with the Village Fair Duo
What: 'Poetry on The Line' at 2 and Tea at 3
On Sunday, March 14, 2010, 2 PM (snow date March 21st)
Where: Windsor Art Center, 40 Mechanic Street, Windsor (off Rte. 159 in downtown Windsor behind CVS)
Cost: FREE
Information: www.windsorartcenter.org or 860-688-2528

'Poetry on The Line'
A Guinness Book of Verse

Please join other lovers of poetry at 2 PM Sunday, March 14 (snow date, March 21), for the fourth and final event in the 2009-2010 'Poetry on The Line' series which presents contemporary poets in a delightful setting and provides a meeting place for Connecticut's literary community during the fall and winter season.

The reading entitled A Guinness Book of Verse will feature two poets. Ginny Lowe Connors who will read from Barbarians in the Kitchen as well as from a group of poems that recently received the Sunken Garden Poetry Award and Jim Kelleher will read from his book 'Quarry', and promises to declaim a little Yeats, though he draws the line at step-dancing. The readings will be in praise of beginnings, high spirits, and everything green. A program of Celtic music by the Village Fair Duo (Laura Mazza-Dixon and Carrie Crompton) will add more Irish to the event. A reception and book signing will follow.

The series, POETRY ON THE LINE, occurs at the Windsor Art Center where art, verse, and the main line meet.
In case of snow please call 860-688-7525 or 860-217-0023 to inquire about closing.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:

Jim Kelleher teaches literature and composition at Northwest Community College in Winsted, Connecticut, works in a group home to support three handicapped men, and is also a self-employed carpentry contractor. He earned an MFA degree in poetry from New England College in 2007. In former lives he was a teacher in the Boston public schools, caretaker for a summer camp, and Fillmore East usher. He lives in Goshen, CT, whose people and places achieve mythical stature in his work. About that work, Maxine Kumin has written, "Kelleher makes tough, knobby poems out of what he knows as carpenter, wood-splitter, snowplower, and canny observer of the natural world. He is one of a kind and so are his carefully crafted but unvarnished poems." Susan Kinsolving adds this: "Hard work, hard winter, and hard truth are the realities often embraced in Jim Kelleher's poems. As he takes his readers from auction to quarry, from woodcutting to snow plowing, from tending the dying to attending Kerry dancing, his fortitude becomes a valuable affirmation. The poems in this fine first collection are shaped by direct observation, determined craftsmanship, and a rare hardiness of spirit. Whitman would say Welcome. And so do I." The poetry of Ginny Lowe Connors has appeared in many journals and anthologies. In 2001 she was awarded first prize in the Atlanta Review's International Poetry Competition, and in 2010 she won the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. Connors, a teacher in West Hartford, Connecticut, was named "Poet of the Year" by the New England Association of Teachers of English in the fall of 2003. She is the editor of three poetry anthologies, the most recent being 'Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems About Marriage' (Grayson Books, 2003). Of her work, Claire Rossini has commented, "These poems have quiet authority. Many take as their subject the 'warp and weft' of the everyday: raising kids, tending to elderly parents, negotiating the delicate inlets of intimate relationships. Other poems focus on things beautiful and mysterious: paintings by Van Gogh and Magritte, a manatee, a great blue heron. In all cases, the poet's eye is sharp and true, and her sense of form beautifully honed, so the epiphanies of these poems are found both in their insight and their music.' And this from Bessy Reyna: "Ginny Connors is a poet who can find beauty while remembering a dangerous childhood game or watching the way a drop of water falls. She is capable of molding words as she seeks to mold her children's wildness into civility, but she is most of all a poet ready to remind us of the beauty found in the quotidian, a poet who urges us never to let the world move beyond our reach."

Village Fair Duo

Carrie Crompton and Laura Mazza-Dixon have performed together for years as the Village Fair Duo. They have appeared in recitals around New England and at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. The Village Fair Duo was listed on the Connecticut Commission of the Arts roster of performing artists and appears on the Connecticut Classical Guitar Society recording, A Winter Fantasy . As viola da gamba players, Carrie and Laura have also played together in viola consorts in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. For this event Carrie will harmonize her hammered dulcimer with Laura's bass and tenor violas da gamba.

Carrie Crompton has arranged, performed and taught music for the hammered dulcimer since 1981, both as a soloist and with several groups. She arranged and performed selections on the award-winning Singing with TrebleMakers CD, and served as producer, arranger, and performer for the TrebleMakers' second CD, Our Favorite Folksongs. As the founder and director of the ensemble Barolk Folk, Carrie's recordings have won awards from the Association for Independent Music and from Parents Choice. She has also been playing International Folk Dance music since 2001 with the group Hijaz, using her hammered dulcimer to perform the music of the santouri, a Greek instrument related to the hammered dulcimer.

Laura Mazza-Dixon is a classical guitar and viola da gamba teacher, and directs students in the Windy Hill Guitar Ensemble. She has lived in Granby, CT since 1986 and currently directs the Early Music Ensemble at the Hartt School Community Division. She is the founder and director of Heart's Ease, the contradance band for the Granby Family Dance Series. Laura's programs combining music and poetry include one focused on Irish folklore, called Near the Hearth, and one of Elizabethan music, titled Now, What is Love? She has been teaching workshops in Renaissance improvisation for the past fifteen years and enjoys performing in small ensembles which play Baroque music on period instruments.

Be sure to join us for the 2010-2011 continuation of 'Poetry on the Line'.
Four readings will occur this fall and next spring on Sundays
October 17, November. 14, February 13, and March 20.

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