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The Guilford Poets Guild Second Thursday Poetry Series

Thursday   TIME:  7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

The Guilford Poets Guild presents poet Charles Douthat for their Second Thursday Poetry Series event on Thursday, December 13, 7 p.m. at the Greene Art Gallery, 29 Whitfield in Guilford. The reading will be preceded by an open mic from 7 to 7:30 p.m.

Charles is the author of Blue for Oceans, a debut collection of poetry.   Born in California, he graduated from Stanford University.  For the last thirty years he's lived in Connecticut where he still practices law.  He began writing poetry during a long mid-life illness.  Since then his poems have been published in many magazines and journals and featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. Blue for Oceans received the 2011 L.L.Winship/PEN New England Poetry Award for the best book of poetry by a New England author.  

The reading is free and open to the public.  Refreshments are served.  For more information call 453-8836 or consult www.guilfordpoetsguild.wordpress.com.

Location:

The Greene Art Gallery
29 Whitfield
Guilford, CT 06437

Cost:

free

Contact:

203-453-8836
www.guilfordpoetsguild.wordpress.com