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February, 2010

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Event:

Poetry on the Line

Date:

February 7th, 2010.

Time:

2:00 PM

Location:

Windsor Art Center

Contact:

860 688-2528

Who: Poets, Edwina Trentham and John Stanizzi will read from the most recent works

What: 'Poetry on The Line' at 2 and Tea at 3 with a harp interlude with Susan Knapp Thomas
When: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 2 PM (snow date Feb. 14th)
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'

Please join other lovers of poetry at 2 PM Sunday, February 7 (snow date, February 14), for the third event in a poetry series that presents contemporary poets in a delightful setting and provides a meeting place for Connecticut's literary community during the fall and winter season. The series, POETRY ON THE LINE, occurs at the Windsor Art Center where art, verse, and the main line meet.

The reading entitled Straight to the Heart will feature two poets. Edwina Trentham will read from Stumbling into the Light as well as a new book-in-progress, and John Stanizzi will read from Ecstasy Among Ghosts and Sleepwalking, along with a group of new poems. A musical prelude, interlude, and postlude by harpist Susan Knapp Thomas will accompany the reading. Tea and a book signing will follow.

In case of snow please call 860-688-7525 or 860-217-0023 to inquire about closing.

ABOUT THE Artists:

Stumbling into the Light is Edwina Trentham's first collection of poetry. The book has received high praise from poets and non-poets alike. Robert Cording has said, "Edwina Trentham's autobiographical sequence of poems is as painful, loving, and surprising as family life itself. Acutely observant, generous and rich in their details, these mature, accomplished poems 'sift the clutter' of memory to recall the often concealed and contradictory truths that lie at the heart of her upbringing in Bermuda. Trentham tells an archetypal story: the fall into the complexity of adult life. An intimate participant in this emotional journey, the reader follows a child who learns to make her way 'alone in paradise' into adulthood where she finally 'adds up' the past, calling it back with the utmost honesty and compassion, so it will 'let [her] go.' Yet, while the subject matter is personal, Stumbling into the Light is never confessional; these are poems of great restraint and formal range. Trentham is a scrupulous poet of subtle effects whose ability with forms, particularly the sestina form, and with rhyme and stanzaic structures is evident throughout. This is a book that finds its home again and again in the 'life of the mind,' - 'exuberant,/ contained, still blossoming' on page after page." Edwina Trentham was born in Bermuda, where she spent the first four years of her life, then moved to Washington DC, where her father was Treasurer of the British Embassy. When she was nine, her father retired and the family returned to Bermuda, where she spent the rest of her childhood. She moved to Connecticut in 1962. She has been a fellow at Yaddo and has published her work in a number of magazines, including The American Scholar, The American Voice, The Connecticut Review, The Massachusetts Review, The New Virginia Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her work is included in four anthologies. Edwina Trentham is a Professor of English at Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield, CT, where she edits the poetry magazine Freshwater; and for many years she was a Visiting Instructor in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Wesleyan University. She lives in Moodus with her husband, Greg Coleman, a labyrinth designer, poet, and Tai Chi instructor.

John Stanizzi's first collection of poems, Ecstasy Among Ghosts, was greeted with great enthusiasm by advance reviewers. Hugh Ogden commented, "Through the sluice of memory John Leonard Stanizzi shapes the torrent that pours through his mind and being. He fashions poems that hold and treasure family, friends, and the seasons. He gives stability to what we love and care about through a language equal to what it tributes and memorializes. Ecstasy Among Ghosts is a stunning debut." Ruth Daigon adds that "John Stanizzi is a poet of courage and passion who manages to be achingly sensual without a scrap of sentimentality. His work is brought to life by the transformation of nature, its eroticism and beauty. There is no separation between his personal world and the world at large, both of which he creates with intelligence, musicality and precision. His work moves between the old Italian family traditions of mysticism and spontaneity and his own new venues of passion & tenderness, a wonderful balancing act." John's second book, Sleepwalking, is devoted to the bright and dark sides of Night. Beginning at dusk and moving into the nightmare and magic of full night, the book ends with the grace of dawn. About this "night music," Bruce Pratt has written as follows: 'To read John Stanizzi's Sleepwalking is to become immersed in a dream from which you hope never to awaken. A work of stunning lyricism and language, this rich and elegant soliloquy conjures, in its contemplation of evening and night, balm for the soul and inspiration for the heart. No one will read it merely once.' A former Wesleyan University Etherington Scholar, Stanizzi has been a poet in residence at Manchester Community College and in the Middletown Public School system. In 1998 he was named New England Poet of the Year by The New England Association of Teachers of English, which featured him in Scattered Leaves: A Collection of Celebrated Poets of the Year 2000. He has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, has been widely anthologized, and has had work in journals such as Blue Unicorn, The Connecticut River Review, Embers, The MacGuffin, Poet Lore, Poets On, The Red Fox Review, Soundings East, and Stone Country. Garrison Keillor has read Stanizzi's work on The Writer's Almanac. He is currently an adjunct instructor at Manchester Community College and teaches English at Bacon Academy in Colchester, Connecticut, where he also directs the theater program. He and his wife, Carol, live in Coventry, Connecticut.

Susan Knapp Thomas, harpist, received her Bachelor's Degree from the Eastman School of Music, and is a well-known Chamber, Orchestral and Solo Concert Artist and teacher throughout Connecticut and Southern New England. As an orchestral harpist, Susan has enjoyed a long relationship with the Hartford Symphony, and was their featured concerto soloist in June of 2008, performing Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto with principal flutist, Grieg Shearer. She also plays regularly for the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Waterbury Symphony, and performed as harpist for the U.S. Coast Guard Band from 1987-2002. Ms. Thomas regularly plays touring shows for the Bushnell and the Shubert Theaters in Hartford and New Haven, CT. Ms. Thomas has done regular work for the Frank Sinatra Jr. show. Her backup work includes shows for such notables as Judy Collins, the group 'Yes', the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Peter Cetera, Johnny Mathis and others. Her recently released CD, Everlasting Sunday, was a finalist considered by the Greater Hartford Arts Council for one of their donor level gifts. She is also recorded on the Opus label.
As a harp soloist, Ms. Thomas has been featured with I Giovanni Solisti, the Farmington Valley and Wallingford Symphonies, and the Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra, performing Debussy's Danses Sacr e et Profane, Ravel's Introduction and Allegro, and Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp. She has been a featured solo guest artist for numerous concert series in both Northern and Southern New England. Ms. Thomas lives in Bloomfield with her husband, Brad, and their Australian Shepherds, Tillie and Pepper.

Final reading in the series:

Sunday, March 14, 2:00 p.m.: Ginny Connors and Jim Kelleher

The Windsor Art Center is open Thursdays from 6-8 PM, Saturdays 10-4 PM and Sundays 11-4 PM. Directions and other information at www.windsorartcenter.org

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