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Two talented poets will discuss poetry, the state of the world, and the literary life.
These courageous writers look at the hard places in life - drug and alcohol addiction, loss, discrimination -
and ask us not to turn away. Please join us.
all are welcome!
B. Fulton Jennes is an award-winning poet whose work has appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies, including CALYX, Comstock Review, Extreme Sonnets, Rust and Moth, SWWIM, and Tupelo Quarterly. In 2022, “Glyphs of a Gentle Going” was awarded the Lascaux Prize; another poem, “Father to Son,” won the 2023 New Millennium Award. Her collection Blinded Birds received the 2022 International Book Award for a poetry chapbook. FLOWN—an elegy-in-verse to her late sister—was published by Porkbelly Press in April 2024. Jennes is poet laureate emerita of Ridgefield, CT, where she directs the Poetry in the Garden reading series each summer and served for many years as poet-in-residence at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
Margot Schilpp teaches at Southern Connecticut State University and at Quinnipiac University. She is the author of four volumes of poetry from Carnegie Mellon University Press, including Afterswarm (2019), winner of the 2020 Connecticut Book Award in Poetry. A new book of poems, Markers and Shrines, will be published in the fall of 2025. She lives in New Haven with her husband, the poet Jeff Mock. They have two daughters, Paula and Leah.