The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2017

Connecticut is comprised of some 170 towns, 20 of which now have appointed local writers as poets laureate. The number of local laureates has doubled in the last year, and with that rise the Connecticut Coalition of Poets Laureate was created. This session will provide insight into the role of the poet laureate, the process of creating a poet laureate position in a municipality, and the role and exciting activities of both the Coalition and the poets laureate in their local communities as they spread a thousand points of poetry throughout the state. It will include readings from the Coalition's recently published book, Laureates of Connecticut: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. This session is for poets, writers, artists, municipal administrators and active citizens interested in the confluence of the civic and the creative, the community and the arts.