Word of Mouth

The third Thursday of every month, this New Haven poetry series celebrates the region’s eclectic mix of poetic voices. This event is FREE and open to the public. There will be an open-mic session in addition to a featured reading by our visiting writers.

Please arrive a few minutes early to sign up for open-mic.

Thursday, January 21, 2010, Doors open at 6:30 pm, Open Mic at 7:00 pm
Hosted by the Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT
Featuring Elizabeth Marie Young

Elizabeth Marie Young is the author of a Motherwell Prize winning volume of poetry, Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize. She lived in New York for many years where she helped edit the Poetry Project Newsletter. She also played music in several experimental noise bands, DJ’d at WKCR-FM, taught high school. In 2004, she curated Cabinet of the Muses, a Bay-Area inter-arts poetry festival. Liz currently teaches Latin, ancient Greek, and English poetry at Wellesley College.

Young’s work has been described as “hilariously erudite prose poems [that] are cosmologies—miniature, ever-expanding universes . . . interactive environments, kaleidoscopic and incorrigibly changeable, in which competing impulses toward cerebral austerity and luxuriant beauty battle it out. She says that she “writes in the infidel hope that writing itself can create worlds.”

For more information, please contact allwordofmouth@gmail.com.

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