The Poetry Box LIVE – October Edition!
Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific)
3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)
Featuring:
- Lois Levinson (CO) – author of Field Notes from an Illusion
- Ginny Lowe Connors (CT) – author of White Sail at Midnight
- Fred Zirm (MD) – author of Rescue Dogs
Enjoy the Video from the Show:
About the Featured Poets:
Lois Levinson has had several careers: as a middle school teacher of French and English, as an attorney practicing commercial litigation in Denver, and, more recently, as a poet. While she pursued each profession with passion and commitment, she has found true delight in writing poetry. A graduate of the Poetry Book Project, a two-year advanced program at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, she published a chapbook, Crane Dance, followed by a full-length book, Before it All Vanishes. For the past nine years, she has met with her poetry group, the Wyrd Sisters, to study poetry and to workshop and rejoice in one another’s poems and publication successes. She lives in a suburb of Denver with her husband Mark, their adult son Daniel, a Goldendoodle named Molly, and an African Grey parrot who answers to Kiri.
You can learn more about Lois’s book HERE
Ginny Lowe Connors is the author of five previous poetry collections, the most recent of which is Without Goodbyes: From Puritan Deerfield to Mohawk Kahnawake (Turning Point, 2021). Among her awards are the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, Atlanta Review’s Grand Prize, and the Founders Award, sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. She was named “Poet of the Year” by NEATE (New England Association of Teachers of English). In 2018 she was named the winner of Passager’s annual Poetry Contest. Essays and book reviews she’s written have appeared in such publications as the Hartford Courant, Baltimore Review, New York Journal of Books, Switchback, and North American Review. In 2023 Connors was Writer in Residence at Trail Wood, former home of naturalist Edwin Way Teale. She holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts. As publisher of her own press, Grayson Books, Connors has edited a number of poetry anthologies, including Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry. A Board Member of the Connecticut Poetry Society, she is co-editor of Connecticut River Review.
You can learn more about Ginny’s book HERE
After earning a B.A. and M.A. in English from Michigan State and an M.F.A. from the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, Fred Zirm spent nearly 40 years teaching English and drama at an independent boys’ school in Maryland. Since his retirement, he has continued to direct plays at community theaters but has also focused on writing poetry and has become deeply involved with the Writers’ Center at the Chautauqua Institution. His work has been published in over a dozen small literary magazines and anthologies, including The Café Review, Still Crazy, cahoodadoodaling (Pushcart Prize nominee), Greek Fire, Poeming Pigeons, and Objects in the Rearview Mirror. His first poetry chapbook, Object Lessons (Main Street Rag), was published in January 2021.
You can learn more about Fred’s chapbook HERE
