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Rose Garden Reading Series

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.

Previous readers have included...

• 2019 - Bessy Reyna  ♦  Sean Frederick Forbes
• 2018 - Danielle Pieratti  ♦  Reginald Flood
• 2017 - Daniel Donaghy  ♦  Charles Fort
• 2016 - Ciaran Berry  ♦  John Surowiecki
• 2015 - Alison Moncrief Bromage ♦ David Cappella
• 2014 - Suzanne Frischkorn ♦ Charles Rafferty
• 2013 - Bruce Cohen  ♦  Kate Rushin
• 2012 - Lonnie Black  ♦  Peter Gizzi
• 2011 - Susan Howe  ♦  Elizabeth Willis
• 2010 - Benjamin Grossberg  ♦  Margot Schillp
• 2009 - Nancy Kuhl  ♦  Brian Johnson
• 2008 - Richard Deming  ♦  Gray Jacobik
• 2007 - A Memorial Reading for Hugh Odgen
• 2006 - Dennis Barone  ♦  Clare Rossini
• 2005 - Ravi Shankar  ♦  Brad Davis
• 2004 - Hugh Ogden  ♦  Ginny Connors
• 2003 - Pamela Nomura  ♦  Robert Cording
• 2002 - Cortney Davis  ♦  Steve Foley
• 2001 - Maria Sassi  ♦  Vivian Shipley
• 2000 - James Finnegan  ♦  Susan Kinsolving
• 1999 - James Longenbach  ♦  Sue Ellen Thompson
• 1998 - Diana Garcia  ♦  Rennie McQuilkin

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