Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon celebrates ANTOINETTE BRIM-BELL, Connecticut’s State Poet Laureate, long time Salon member and phenomenal educator and poet! Join us Saturday, September 20, 2025 for a Potluck Salon, Free Writing Workshop, feature poet reading, Q & A community discussion & Multi-genre Open Mic open to all, in-person from 12:30pm to 5:00pm in a private rented accessible venue in Downtown Brooklyn, NY. Hosted by Salon founder, curator, and poet JP Howard. Join Antoinette on Sat, September 20th, for a generative writing workshop, along with a featured poet reading, followed by a multi-genre open mic open to all participants. This event is free & open to all, space permitting.
This event is sponsored in part by a 2025 grant from Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
Workshop: Please bring pen & paper to write.
Poetry books will be loaned out for free from Bloom's Traveling Poetry Library!
Antoinette will facilitate a generative writing workshop, then give a featured poet reading, engage in a brief Q & A with participants and then we will end with a multi-genre open mic.
Masks are optional for this in-door event in a private venue.
How to RSVP: INTERESTED ATTENDEES MUST EMAIL, IN ADVANCE, A REQUEST TO:
anAgISBob3dhcmQgfCB3b21lbndyaXRlcnNibG9vbSAhIGNvbQ== to RSVP to attend or to be added to a waitlist, in order to receive private venue details.
On Saturday, September 20, 2025 our potluck Salon & Open Mic features dynamic Salon member & Connecticut Poet Laureate ANTOINETTE BRIM-BELL! This Salon & Open Mic is in a private rented accessible venue in Downtown Brooklyn, NY. Join us from 12:30pm to 5:00pm. As there is limited space; advance RSVP is required. Waitlist may be required if we reach capacity.
Contact JP at:
anAgISBob3dhcmQgfCB3b21lbndyaXRlcnNibG9vbSAhIGNvbQ== YOU WILL ONLY RECEIVE THE PRIVATE VENUE DETAILS AFTER YOU EMAIL JP DIRECTLY, NOT BY JOINING THIS FACEBOOK EVENT!
This Salon & Open Mic is located in a private rented venue in Downtown Brooklyn. There is limited space, so RSVP in advance is required. PARTICIPANTS ARE WELCOME TO WEAR MASKS INDOORS IF THEY WISH, BUT NOT REQUIRED. ** IF YOU ARE NOT FEELING WELL, HAVE COVID / FLU and/or COLD SYMPTOMS THE DAY OF THE SALON, PLEASE STAY HOME TO KEEP EVERYONE SAFE! ** THANKS!
We have limited space in this indoor salon and a wait-list will be set up if we reach capacity.
Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon (WWBPS) is a Literary Salon Series modeled after traveling Salons, popular during the Harlem Renaissance. Poet and author JP Howard has curated and nurtured the Salon for (14) magical years! JP was a Split This Rock Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism finalist for her literary activism on behalf of the Salon. We are a forum offering women writers, especially, of all levels, a venue to come together in a positive and supportive space. WWBPS has a large LGBTQ POC membership and is open to ALL. JP has been awarded Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) grants for the Brooklyn-based portion of the Salon Series for the last TWELVE years (2014 to 2025). The Salon has been featured on national literary sites, including in Literary Hub (
https://lithub.com/from-apartment-to-bryant-park-a.../ ), Poets & Writers (
http://www.pw.org/content/from_poets_writers_inc_22 ), Bryant Park Word for Word Reading Series, CUNY TV Study With the Best cable tv show, and THE ARTISTS FORUM cable tv show.
#POTLUCK: Salons are potluck. Please bring a food dish and/or beverages to share for our poetry table. Non-alcoholic beverages and/or wine is fine too.
#TIME & #VOLUNTEERS: Please arrive on time. *OUR salon will begin promptly at 12:30pm and will end around 5:00pm. We will need a few volunteers to help JP with setup to arrive around 11:40am and a few volunteers to help her with cleanup of the space after 5pm!
#ADDRESS: TO RECEIVE THE PRIVATE ADDRESS DETAILS FOR THIS SALON, SUBSCRIBE TO THE SALON'S FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER:
http://eepurl.com/lNK0b or send your email address to
anAgISBob3dhcmQgfCB3b21lbndyaXRlcnNibG9vbSAhIGNvbQ==. JP must have your email in advance of the Salon in order for you to receive the Salon address details by email. Thanks!
#Feature Poet BIO: Antoinette Brim-Bell, Connecticut’s 8th State Poet Laureate, is the author of three full-length poetry collections: These Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love, and Psalm of the Sunflower. She is a Cave Canem Foundation Fellow and an alumna of Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA). Her poetry has appeared in various journals, magazines, textbooks, and anthologies, as well as in Poetry Magazine and on Poem-a-Day. Brim-Bell has published critical works, “The Myopic Eye in Alice Walker’s ‘Flowers’” (Critical Insights: Alice Walker, Salem Press) and “Juxtaposed Dichotomies: the idealized white suburban pastoral, the surrealist tableau of black poverty & the Women in between” (The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent, Haymarket Books). Brim-Bell was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for poetry and essay.
The New England Ballet commissioned a ballet based on Brim-Bell’s These Women You Gave Me. New York-based ballet choreographer Sarah Grace created the ballet In Her Image, which was danced in Connecticut and on the Alvin Ailey stage in New York City.
#Host Bio: JP Howard is a poet, educator, literary activist, and community builder. Her debut poetry collection, SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System), was a Lambda Literary finalist. She is also the author of bury your love poems here (Belladonna*), Praise This Complicated Herstory: Legacy, Healing & Revolutionary Poems (Harlequin Creature) and co-editor of Sinister Wisdom Journal Black Lesbians--We Are the Revolution! JP was a featured author in Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools Program and is featured in the Lesbian Poet Trading Card Series from Headmistress Press. JP was the inaugural recipient of the 2024 Maine Writers Studio writing retreat and was a recent Brooklyn College Tow Mentor-in-Residence. She has received fellowships and/or grants from Cave Canem, VONA, Lambda Literary, and Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon. JP’s poetry is widely anthologized. Her poetry and/or essays have been featured in The New York Times, POETRY Magazine, The Slowdown, The Academy of American Poets, Apogee Journal, The Feminist Wire, Split this Rock, and elsewhere. JP is a general Poetry Editor for Women's Studies Quarterly and Editor-At-Large of Mom Egg Review VOX online.
http://www.jp-howard.com
#OpenMic: This Salon ends with a MULTI-GENRE Open Mic open to ALL participants, so please bring your work to share and pen and paper to write. Please feel free to share your fiction, non-fiction, poetry, artwork or music/song during our Open Mic!
Peace & Poetry,
JP Howard, Curator and Nurturer
Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon (WWBPS)
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