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Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways will host Matthew Henry and Randall Horton, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 7 PM, at Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor Street, Hartford, Connecticut. Don’t miss out—these readings will wrap up the Riverwood Poetry Series’ 2023-2024 season.Join us for this in-person reading! An open mic will precede the featured reader—one poem, one page please. Since we are always trying to perfect our open mic, this month we will draw 10 names from all those who sign up by 7 PM.
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The author’s books will be available to buy for book signing & conversation, and beer, wine, soft drinks, and snacks will be available for purchase.
Bring a friend! Free of Charge. Ample parking available at Real Art Ways.
Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is the Boston-born author of the full length collections the Colored page (Sundress Publication, 2022) and The Third Renunciation (New York Quarterly Books, 2023), the chapbooks Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020) and Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020), and the micro-chapbook have you heard the one about…? (Ghost City Press, 2023). He also has a collection forthcoming from Harbor Editions (said the Frog to the scorpion). MEH is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal, an associate poetry editor at Pidgeonholes, an associate editor at Rise Up Review, and is the 2023 winner of the Solstice Literary Magazine Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize.
He received his MFA in poetry from Seattle Pacific University, yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing a MA in theology (Andover Newton Theological School) and a PhD in education (Lesley University). But he should not be confused with the long dead, white, theologian.
MEH is an educator whose career has found him teaching English, teacher education, philosophy, and sociology at the high school, college, and graduate levels. His writing shines a black-light on the bed of education, race, relationships, religion, and everything else you’re not supposed to discuss in polite company. He’s been known to make some sad and angry people irrationally uncomfortable.
Randall Horton, originally from Birmingham, Alabama is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature, the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction for Hook: A Memoir (2015), Poet-in-Residence at the Civil Right Corpse, and most recently a Right to Return Fellowship from the Soze Foundation. Randall is also a member of the band: Heroes Are Gang Leaders, a group whose unique blend of blues, jazz, funk, hip hop, go-go, R&B, soul, classical music, poetry, dramaturgy and prose, continues the legacy of Amiri Baraka and received the American Book Award for Oral Literature. The University of Kentucky Press is the publisher of his latest poetry collection {#289-128}. His memoir Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays was published by Northwestern University Press in Feb. 2022.
In addition, Randall has appeared on C-Span, NPR, CTNPR and countless journals, magazines and radio shows. He is the co-creator of Radical Reversal, a poetry/music band dedicated to challenging systemic injustice in the American legal system through the installation of recording studios and creative/performance spaces as well as programing in Department of Correction facilities in the United States. Randall is a Professor of English at the University of New Haven.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT, United States, Connecticut 06106