Poets at Large Spoken Word

Three area awarded poets will read at the Abington Social Library 536 Hampton Road Pomfret CT on June 29th at 4 p.m. Reading will be Thompson Poet Laureate Steve Veilleux novelist and poet Sarah Blanchard and poet Karen Warinsky both Woodstock residents. The event is open and free to the public.

Veilleux was named Thompson’s poet laureate in 2023 and he is the author of the book Event Horizon. Besides his work in photography and poetry Steve also hosts a poetry reading series at The Dye and Bleach House in Willington and a second series at Wolperdinger’s Bookstore in Putnam. 

Blanchard is a multi-genre writer whose most recent work is the poetry chapbook river horse morning.   She is the author of the short story collection Playing Chess with Bulls which was a finalist for the 2021 Doris Betts Fiction Prize. Her story "Witnessing" was a finalist for the 2024 Porch Prize for Short Fiction and her story "Not a Burden" was awarded the 1993 Dorothy Daniels Fiction Award by the National Association of American Pen Women's Simi Valley Branch. Her debut novel Drawn from Life was released in 2024 award and has won several awards including Independent Press Awards silver medal and a Readers' Favorite honorable mention.

Warinsky has published poetry widely since 2011. She is the author of four collections: Gold in Autumn (2020) and Sunrise Ruby (2022 Human Error Publishing) Dining with War (2023 Alien Buddha Press) and Beauty & Ashes (Kelsay Books 2025). Her poem “Mirage” won first place in the 2024 Ekphrastic Poetry Trust she is a 2023 Best of the Net nominee and a former finalist of the Montreal International Poetry Contest. Warinsky coordinates Poets at Large a group that performs spoken word in MA and CT.

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