Awarded Poets Karen Warinsky & Sandy Yannone to Read at Bank Square Books
Two awarded poets will read from their new books at Bank Square Books, 80 Stonington Road, Suite 8, in Mystic, CT at 6 p.m. on July 17th. This event is free and open to the public. Registration through Bank Square Books’ website is recommended.
Reading will be Karen Warinsky, a former finalist of the Montreal International Poetry Contest and a Best of the Net Nominee. Warinsky, a former reporter and retired teacher, has work in numerous anthologies, magazines and books. She is the author of four collections: Gold in Autumn (2020), Sunrise Ruby, (2022) (both from Human Error Publishing), and Dining with War (2023, Alien Buddha Press). She will read from her new book, Beauty and Ashes (Kelsay Books) which came out this June. Lee Desrosiers, publisher of Wordpeace and The Naugatuck River Review said of the book: In these poems you will find a celebration of womanhood and self-love, a carillon, meditations on aging and mortality, gardens and lakes, marriage, a folder for death, junkmen… and much more, which together make Warinsky’s collection well worth reading.” Warinsky creates community poetry readings under the name Poets at Large in CT and MA, now in its 6th year. Details at http://karenwarinskypoetry.wordpress.com.
Yannone has just been appointed as poet laureate of Old Saybrook, CT where she now resides after a career teaching at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Yannone is the author of The Glass Studio (2024) and Boats for Women (2019), both published by Salmon Poetry in County Clare, Ireland. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, SWWIM Every Day, ABQ InPrint, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Ireland Review, Lavender Review, and Women’s Review of Books. Since March, 2020, she has hosted the weekly reading series Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry on Zoom via Facebook. Yannone’s website describes her book as a return to “the memory and reality of her father’s iconic stained glass art studio. She turns her artistic attention toward a deep meditation on glass, its properties and materiality. Glass objects inhabit ever poem…and every poem illuminates a core truth; that in its fragility, its ever-present danger of breakage, glass casts an irrefutable strength of spirit and light…”
Details at www.sandrayannone.com.
