Wailing City

* New London Poets

Thursday nights (8pm) & Sunday afternoons (2pm) @ Bean & Leaf Coffee House

All of us and anyone who believes in the freedom of self expression and understands the impact of honest and sincere emotion expressed through art and the postive energy it projects onto society.

So come down to select from a MULTITUDE of chapbooks by local poets,
Come down to meet some very active local poets,
Get some information on the weekly open mics,
Come down to hang out,
Bring your friends and fiends alike,
Come down to hear some original words from original voices,
Come down to read your own poetry.
Show up, Sign up,
You're on and we love you.
This is NewLondon, and we're listening.

http://www.myspace.com/newlondonpoets

Anderson, Jane

...coming soon!

Frucht, Marco "Capelli"

Marco "Capelli" Frucht [pictured here with Pete Seeger] is a songwriter, singer, artist, poet, and hunter/gatherer from SouthEastern Conn. He's been editor & publisher of an underground newspaper called Activist Times, International since 1988. ATI has it's own Usenet Newsgroup (alt.society.ati). Marco has written volumes of journals and poems. Among many things, he has been a grocery store clerk, a stock broker, a newspaper editor, and a sheep herder on Hopi Partitioned lands.

Homepage: http://www.frucht.org
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/marco
Twitter: http://www.twittering.org

Hollins, Tracey

New London has been the blessed beneficiary of Motown brain drain, voice drain, heart drain, pain drain and stand-up-git-on-the-mic drain.  When the spirit of Joe Louis descended upon 8 Mile it planted seeds of hardship, watered them with Broadway tunes and harvested them with blood relations.  The Me In Between is the irresistible, bitter-sweet fruit of that Motor City - Whaling City transplanted harvest.  Qui Transtulit Sustinet!

- Dave Spinelli
New London 2010

Tracey has appeared in:

Burp

Out of Our

Elephant

Flying Fish

Unarmed (New Orleans)

First chap book The Me In Between (One Time Press) released April 25, 2010

Keenan, Colleen

colleenkeenan@hotmail.com

“This debut chapbook by Colleen Keenan is suave simplicity in the language of sheer reverie, ratcheting up to social perceptions of the culture with moxie confidence she brings to her subjects is a joy.  The blasé, if not laconic pronouncements of newspeak engage us as only a new voice can from the salt marshes of New London. Keenan rocks us in a city that has given up whaling instead of poetry.”  -Tom Weigel

Chapbooks:

girl (one time press 2009)

Work has appeared in:

Flying Fish (co-editor)
Elephant
Burp
Tangerine
Unarmed
Fell Swoop 90: The New London School