Poets: Kim Hunt. Tom Nicotera,Sherri Bedingfield , and Marilyn Johnston
May 17, 2025 @ 7:00PM — 9:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
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Poets : Kim Hunt , Marilyn Johnston, and Sheryll Bedingfield
Kim, retired from forty years of litigation practice, has published four volumes of poetry: “Diciphering Uncertainty” (2021, 133 pgs); “Harrowing the Hollows” (2022, 240 pgs); “Capillary Influences” (2023, 208 pgs); and “Lattice of Shaddows” (2024, 223 pgs). He hosts a Creative Writing Group for the UConn Adult Learning Program; recites at The Buttonwood’s “open mic” and the Bloomfield Public Library’s monthly poetry nights.Sherri (Sheryll) Bedingfield is the author of two poetry collections: Transitions and Transformations and TheClattering: Voices from Old Forfarshire Scotland. Her work
appears in many journals and anthologies, includingConnecticut River Review(2020), Our Changing Environment(Guilford Poet’s Guild, CT, 2019), Civilization in Crisis(Foothills Publishing, NY, 2021)and The Nature of Woodbury, (OrenaugMountain Publishing, 2024).
Bedingfield has served on the Board of Riverwood Poetry Series at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT and she co-hostedThe Wintonbury Library Poetry Series in Bloomfield, CT.Bedingfield worked as a psychotherapist and familytherapist for 33 years. She used art and poetry with some of her clients.
Tom Nicotera has published poems in numerous small press publications, journals, and anthologies. His poems have been performed by the East Haddam Stage Co. and he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was a co-founder of Bloomfield Library's Wintonbury Poetry Series (now in its 28thyear) and was a mentor for the American School for the Deaf poetry collaboration with Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. His poetry book, What Better Place To Be Than Here?, was published by Foothills Publishing in 2015.
Marilyn E Johnston’s third book of poetry, Downward Dreaming, was published in by Grayson Books in 2023. She is the author of two proior poetry collections, Weight of the Angel; and Silk Fist Songs, published by Antrim House and a chapbook, Against Disappearance, which won publication as Finalist in the Redgreene Press Poetry Prize of 2001. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals nationwide, including the South Carolina Review, bottle rockets, Poet Lore, and Rattle and have garnered six Pushcart Prize nominations. She co-founded the still popular Wintonbury Poetry Series in Bloomfield Public Library.
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