A wonderful outlet : Aldrich workshop shows poetry is for everyone
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Barbara Jennes firmly believes that anyone can write poetry.
“And not just an awful poem,” adds Jennes, Ridgefield’s poet laureate and an educator at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield. “You can write wonderful poems. It just takes time.”
Jennes has taught poetry workshops and poetry camps at the Aldrich for some time, but starting in June, she began teaching an online poetry workshop, called the Virtual Poetry Playshop, which is free and open to all ages. The workshop happens monthly and the latest installment takes place from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16. Its theme is “Mood and Muse.”
The art of science: New Stamford exhibit uses orchids to inspire activism
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Artist Patricia Laspino in front of her painting “Alice B. Laspino s work will be on display in the exhibit “Global Garden: Resonant Beauty,” which be on view in the Stamford Museum’s Bendel Galleries through April 25, 2021.Contributed by Patricia LaspinoShow MoreShow Less
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Saving the world seems like an insurmountable task. Patricia Laspino used to feel that way, too.
“I said to myself that same thing ‘I m just an artist. What can I do?’ ” says Laspino, who lives and works in North Haven. “But everybody can do something.”
Obama s praise part of odd year for author and Fairfield University professor
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Like so many authors who have released books during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent quarantine, Phil Klay is disappointed that he hasn’t gotten to interact personally with his readers.
Learning firsthand what his readers think is “one of the really delightful things” about writing books, says Klay, an associate professor in Fairfield University’s master of the fine arts in creative writing program.
However, Klay’s debut novel, “Missionaries,” released in October, received some positive feedback from a very special reader.
“Missionaries” which uses interlocking stories of four characters to tell a story of civil war in Colombia was chosen by former President Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of 2020. It’s the second time Obama has picked one of Klay’s books for his personal top 10, but the experience doesn’t get old.
No parent is perfect : CT writer s book focuses on life with The Other Mother
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Matthew Dicks of Newington has written the new book, The Other Mother, which is scheduled for release on Jan. 12, 2021.Holly M. Williams /Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Matthew Dicks of Newington has written the new book, The Other Mother, which is scheduled for release on Jan. 12, 2021.St. Martin s Press /Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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A story about a teenager grappling with feelings of depression, isolation and fear seems made for these times, when so many people are feeling lost and alone due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting quarantines.