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Join us at the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society for a FREE poetry reading on Wednesday, October 15 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm. Each program begins with an open mic and features two headlining poets. This month’s poets are Ciaran Berry and Srinivas Mandavilli. No registration is required and donations are greatly appreciated to support the not-for-profit museum. Please visit www.noahwebsterhouse.org/wordhouse-poetry/ for more information.Ciaran Berry was born in Dublin and grew up in Connemara and Donegal. He is the author of four collections of poetry, States (2025), Liner Notes (2018), The Dead Zoo (2013), and The Sphere of Birds (2008), all published by The Gallery Press. His work has been featured in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Best of Irish Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Southern Review, and The Threepenny Review. The accolades his work has received include a Whiting Award, the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition, and two Pushcart Prizes. He lives with his family in West Hartford, Connecticut and co-directs the Creative Writing Program at Trinity College.
Srinivas Mandavilli is Chief of Pathology at Hartford Hospital and the author of the chapbooks Howrah Bridge (Main Street Rag, 2025) and Gods in the Foyer (Antrim Books, 2016). His work has been featured in the anthologies Hum Aiseich Bolte (Trancscendent Zero Press, 2022) and Of Hartford in Many Lights (Grayson Books, 2024) as well as numerous literary journals including Rattle, Poetry Wales, The Night Heron Barks, New Square, Modern Haiku, The Raven’s Perch, Verse Virtual, and Journal of the American Medical Association. Mandavilli is one of Matwaala poets (a South Asian Diaspora Poets’ collective), a Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net nominee, and lives in West Hartford with his wife Bela.
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227 S Main St, West Hartford, CT, United States, Connecticut 06107, 227 S Main St, West Hartford, CT 06107-3453, United States, Hartford
