Events

Halloween Howl!!

Join the Connecticut Poetry Society for our annual Halloween Howl on Friday, October 30, at 7 PM on Zoom. It’s always a lively night of poetry and good company – and we’d love to have you there.

Bring your spooky poems – or something with no ghosts whatsoever. You’re also welcome to read a favorite Halloween poem by another poet. Please keep your selection to one page.

Costumes optional. Fun, definitely. Grab a libation and some candy, come, listen, and spend the evening with people who appreciate a well-turned line and a little darkness.

FREE for CPS Members. Please register with this link:

Poets on Poetry-Debora Kuan

Contemporary Chinese-American Poetry

and the Poetics of Diaspora

Wednesday, November 4, 7pm ET via Zoom

We will discuss individual poems from Chinese-American poets from Victoria Chang to Sally Wen Mao to Esther Lin and explore themes of hegemony, displacement, belonging, and loss.

Zoom registration link: https://tinyurl.com/5bzcskw8

Debora Kuan is the author of three poetry collections, Women on the Moon (The Word Works), Lunch Portraits (Brooklyn Arts Press), and XING (Saturnalia). She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Macdowell, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, and other publications, and her writing has appeared in Time, Artforum, Art in America, Modern Painters, Paper Monument, and other magazines. She has been anthologized in the Brooklyn Poets Anthology, What Things Cost, Advanced Language and Literature, 2nd edition, and her poem “The Night After You Lose Your Job” was chosen for reprint by The Washington Post.

For more info contact:

Jim Finnegan
JforJames@aol.com

Fall Fest November 7, 2026

Make room for poetry this November! Join CPS for our Fall Fest on November 7th, from 1–4 p.m. at Blackstone Memorial Library at 758 Main Street, Branford, CT.

Featured speaker Frederick-Douglass Knowles II will read from his work and explore the art of spoken word poetry.

Browse the poetry book sale, catch up with fellow poetry lovers over lunch, and enjoy dessert, coffee, tea, and other refreshments. Bring a poem of your own and sign up for the open mic – we’d love to hear what you’ve been writing!

Save the date, invite a friend, and leave a little room on your bookshelf.

Registration in advance is required. Email ctpoetryline@gmail.com or via the library website: https://events.blackstonelibrary.org/event/ct-poetry-society-31106