Held annually in conjunction with ‘Rose Weekend’ at Elizabeth Park, this June event features poetry readings by Connecticut-based poets. Often our scholarship award winner will give a brief reading as well. For many years Hugh Ogden coordinated this event and it is in his memory that we carry on.

Past readings…

2024 – Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Frederick-Douglass Knowles II & Christina J Baptista
2023 – Cancelled twice due to weather
2022 – Julien Strong and Luisa Caycedo-Kimura
2021 – Antoinette Brim-Bell and Sophie Cabot Black
2020 – Cancelled due to COVID
2019 – Bessy Reyna and Sean Frederick Forbes
2018 – Danielle Pieratti and; Reginald Flood
2017 – Daniel Donaghy and Charles Fort
2016 – Ciaran Berry and John Surowiecki
2015 – Alison Moncrief Bromage and David Cappella
2014 – Suzanne Frischkorn and Charles Rafferty
2013 – Bruce Cohen and Kate Rushin
2012 – Lonnie Black and Peter Gizzi
2011 – Susan Howe and Elizabeth Willis
2010 – Benjamin Grossberg and Margot Schillp
2009 – Nancy Kuhl and Brian Johnson
2008 – Richard Deming and Gray Jacobik
2007 – A Memorial Reading for Hugh Odgen
2006 – Dennis Barone and Clare Rossini
2005 – Ravi Shankar and Brad Davis
2004 – Hugh Ogden and Ginny Lowe Connors
2003 – Pamela Nomura and Robert Cording
2002 – Cortney Davis and Steve Foley
2001 – Maria Sassi and Vivian Shipley
2000 – James Finnegan and Susan Kinsolving
1999 – James Longenbach and Sue Ellen Thompson
1998 – Diana Garcia and Rennie McQuilkin