WordHouse Poetry - FREE Poetry Readings!

Join us at the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society for a FREE poetry reading on Wednesday, September 17 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. Each program begins with an open mic and features two headlining poets. This month’s poets are Dennis Barone and Luisa Caycedo-Kimura. No registration is required and donations are greatly appreciated to support the not-for-profit museum. Please visit www.noahwebsterhouse.org/wordhouse-poetry/ for more information.

About the poets:

Dennis Barone is a Professor Emeritus in English at the University of Saint Joseph. In 2024 he edited Of Clouds and Mists, poems by Pascal D’Angelo, and co-edited with Deborah Ducoff-Barone Of Hartford in Many Lights: Celebrating Hartford’s Buildings. In 2025 he edited Poets’ Poets: A Renaissance of Words and authored Far-Dale: New and Selected Poems. Stage Fright: Fifty-Five Stories will be published in 2026.

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born writer, educator, and the author of All Were Limones (The Word Works, 2025), winner of the Hillary Tham Capital Collection competition. Other honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Emerging Recognition Award, a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at the Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net nominee, her poems appear in Four Way Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, Rattle, Mid-American Review, RHINO, and elsewhere.