Our Poetry Circle has been meeting and discussing poetry in New York City since 2018. We meet quarterly at the Brooklyn Heights Public Library, where we discuss poetry books and also invite guest poets to talk with us and read their work live. Scroll down to see our various events, past and present, or read related articles in our online magazine. To receive news about our Poetry Circle, please email us at: poetrycircle@ashleymabbitt.com.
Our next Poetry Circle is being planned. Please watch this space for updates. Our meetings are typically held at the Brooklyn Heights Public Library and online.
April 16, 2024
This event’s program was a discussion of the book The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan. Alyan is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, where she works as a clinical psychologist.
The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan, published by Ecco Press
January 9, 2024
This event’s program was a discussion of the book View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska. Symborska was a Polish poet, poetry editor, translator, and columnist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996.
View with a Grain of Salt by Wislawa Szymborska, published by Ecco Press
October 10, 2023
This event’s program was a discussion of the book This Strange Garment by Nicole Callihan. Callihan is a writer, poet, and professor. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
This Strange Garment by Nicole Callihan, published by Terrapin Books
July 11, 2023
The evening’s program was a discussion of the book The Curious Thing by Sandra Lim. Lim was born in Seoul, South Korea, and is the author of three poetry collections. From the publisher: “Truthful, sensuous, and intellectually relentless, the poems in The Curious Thing are compelling meditations on love, art making, solitude, female fate, and both the mundane and serious principles of life.”
The Curious Thing by Sandra Lim, published by W. W. Norton & Company
March 21, 2023
The evening’s program was a discussion of the book Broken Color by Dean Kostos. Kostos was an award-winning poet who was a founder of the Greek-American Writers’ Association and author of eight books, as well as the editor of Pomegranate Seeds, an anthology of Greek-American poetry.
Broken Color by Dean Kostos, published by MadHat Press
Circle Bits is a place where we share news about members of our Poetry Circle and other aspects related to our club. If you have an article of note for Circle Bits, please email us at: poetrycircle@ashleymabbitt.com. More stories about our Poetry Circle and our members can be found in our online magazine, A Little Bit.
Congratulations to Carol Nolde on the Publication of Her Poetry Book Emblems
We’re delighted to share news about the publication of a volume of poetry by our Poetry Circle member and friend Carol Nolde. Emblems, published by Fishing Line Press in 2020, is available here.
From the publisher:
“Carol Nolde calls out to a rural past in poems crafted as expertly as a hand-made table. . . . With warmth Nolde rebuilds a heritage.”
–Molly Peacock
Judy Winer Wins the 2019 Open Chapbook Competition with Her Book Welcome to Guardian Angel School
We are happy to announce the publication of a poetry chapbook by our Poetry Circle member and friend Jody Winer. Welcome to Guardian Angel School, published by Fishing Line Press in 2019, is available here.
From the publisher:
“In these elegiac, highly readable poems, Jody Winer’s steady, skeptical eye teases out the distinction between memory and fact, between art and illusion, that orders her orbit through city, countryside, friendship, and marriage.”
–Julie Sheehan