SWWIM & The Betsy Present Suzanne Frischkorn + Susannah Simpson, March 15th, 7:30PM

I'm so excited to be heading to Miami next week for my SWWIM Residency at The Betsy! On Wednesday, March 15th, at 7:30PM I'll be reading with Susannah Simpson live at The Betsy. This is a hybrid reading and will be streamed on SWWIM's Instagram and Facebook accounts. 

It's going to be amazing to read poems from FIXED STAR in the city I was born! Join us in person or through live stream. 

Sunday Salon Chicago, Virtual, February 26, 6PM CDT

Looking forward to reading for Sunday Salon Chicago with Nikia Chaney, Dawn Raffel, Sara Lippmann, and Michele McDannold, Sunday, February 26, 6PM CDT. 

Virtual - join us! Register HERE

Downtown Writers Center Virtual Reading: Suzanne Frischkorn & Alessandra Lynch

Join us on Friday, January 27th at 7PM ET at this virtual reading for the Downtown Writers Center — Register HERE

Terrain.org Reading Series: Allison Hedge Coke, Tara Lynn Masih, + Suzanne Frischkorn

Excited to read with National Book Award Finalist Allison Adelle Hedge Coke & award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih for Terrain.org’s Reading Series! Hosted by Alison Hawthorne Deming. Register HERE

South Florida Poetry Journal Presents Flower Conroy & Suzanne Frischkorn

Excited to read with Flower Conroy for South Florida Poetry Journal this Wednesday— join us! Register HERE

Mercy Street Reading Series

Excited for this reading! Sunday, October 2 - Mercy Street features Elisa Gabbert, Suzanne Frischkorn, Kathy Fagan, Soren Stockman, Cyrus Cassells, and Michael Joseph Walsh. 

Virtual | Register HERE 

Writers in Conversation Suzanne Frischkorn and Emily Hockaday hosted by Laurel Peterson

Looking forward to talking with Emily and Laurel in person at the Norwalk Library— if you’re in the area I would love to see you there!

An Afternoon with Suzanne Frischkorn, Mai Der Vang, & Jennifer Elise Forester (via Zoom)

 

This poetry reading hosted by The Hudson Valley Writers Center with Q&A is free and open to all. 

A Garden of Verse Summer 2022 Poetry Series, BK Fischer & Suzanne Frischkorn In-Person Ridgefield, Connecticut

I’m so excited to read with BK Fischer (in-person!) on August 8th, at 7PM for the 2022 Summer Reading Series at the beautiful Keeler Tavern Museum Garden in Ridgefield, CT. I hope you can join us!

An Afternoon with Suzanne Frischkorn, Mai Der Vang, & Jennifer Elise Forester - Hudson Valley Writers Center (via Zoom)

 

I’m so excited to be reading with Mai Der Vang & Jennifer Elise Forester on August 7th, at 4PM for The Hudson Valley Writers Center! Via Zoom | FREE. I hope you can join us! 

Fixed Star on Tour!

 

NYC Poetry Festival

Lovely

Wonderful to read with Charles Rafferty yesterday. Lovely to meet our hosts The Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens. And such a pleasure to see Pamela St. Clair and James Finnegan again, and to meet David Epstein. Good times, good company, good poetry!

2014 Rose Garden Reading Saturday, June 14, 1PM

NOTE NEW VENUE: Reception Room, 2^nd Floor, Bruyette Athenaeum, University of St. Joseph, 1678 Asylum Ave., W. Hartford CT.

The annual Rose Garden Reading features two Connecticut-based poets, Suzanne Frischkorn and Charles Rafferty.

The Rose Garden Reading is sponsored by the Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens , and is held each year in mid-June in honor of Wallace Stevens’ close connection to Hartford’s Elizabeth Park. Hear the poetry then go to the park to stroll among the roses.

  

Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of Girl On A Bridge (2010), and Lit Windowpane (2008). In addition she is the author of five chapbooks, most recently American Flamingo (2008). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies – Copper Nickel, Ecotone, Indiana Review, North American Review, Puerto del Sol, Verse Daily, and Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems, part of the Everyman’s Library Pocket Series (Knopf) among them. Her honors include the Aldrich Poetry Award for her chapbook Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver, an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Writers Center, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism. She serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor for Anti--.

Charles Rafferty has received poetry grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism. He has published five poetry chapbooks, the most recent of which is Appetites (Clemson Univ. Press), and he has published five full-length collections of poetry, including The Man on the Tower (U. of Arkansas Press), A Less Fabulous Infinity (Louisiana Literature Press), and, most recently, The Unleashable Dog (Steel Toe Books). His collection of flash fiction, Saturday Night at Magellan's, came out with Fomite Press. He has published hundreds of poems, essays, and stories in such places as The New Yorker, Oprah Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and Massachusetts Review. His poems have also appeared in several anthologies, including American Poetry: The Next Generation, Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology, and Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets.

Summer Readings

I'm looking forward to reading here:

Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens, The Rose Garden Reading, University of St. Joseph, West Hartford, CT, June 14, 12PM, with Charles Rafferty

And here:

New York City Poetry Festival, Governor's Island, Colonel's Row, July 26, Time TBA, Poets from Dire Literary Series: Suzanne Frischkorn, Teisha Dawn Twomey, Charles Coe, Eric Nelson 

Celebrating Four New Books at Real Art Ways

Ravi Shankar Launches Deepening Groove In An Evening of New Poetry

Writers and Readers Series
Thursday, August 25, 2011 | 6 PM
$5/FREE Real Art Ways’ Members

http://www.realartways.org/

Hartford, Connecticut – Real Art Ways’ Writers and Reader Series is pleased to announce an evening of new poetry with acclaimed poet, Ravi Shankar, who will launch his new book Deepening Groove, winner of the 2010 National Poetry Review Prize. Three notable authors will join Shankar each reading from their new works- Joel Allegretti, Suzanne Frischkorn and Lisa C. Taylor.

Connecticut Poet Laureate Dick Allen will introduce Deepening Groove and has hailed Shankar as “one of America’s finest younger poets.”

Deepening Groove is a collection of poems comprised of detailed observations about animals, trees, flowers, fish, the weather, and the human condition. Many of the poems are set in New England where Ravi Shankar lives. Poems from the collection have been featured by the Academy of American Poets and have appeared in such journals as Blackbird, Barrow Street, Fulcrum, The Mississippi Review and Slope.

Ravi Shankar is founding editor of Drunken Boat, an international online journal of the arts, and Co-Director of Creative Writing at Central Connecticut State University. He has published five other books and chapbooks. With Tina Chang and Natalie Handal, he edited W.W. Norton's Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond, called "a beautiful achievement for world literature" by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer.


Joel Allegretti is the author of two full-length volumes of poetry from The Poet’s Press: The Plague Psalms and Father Silicon, selected by the Kansas City Star as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006. Poets Wear Prada released his third collection, Thrum (2010) a chapbook of poems, prose poems and poetic essays about musical instruments. Poets Wear Prada will publish his fourth collection, Europa/Nippon/New York: Poems/Not-Poems, in 2012.


Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of Girl On A Bridge (2010), and Lit Windowpane (2008) both from Main Street Rag Publishing. In addition she is the author of five chapbooks, most recently American Flamingo (2008). Her honors include the Aldridge Poetry Award for her chapbook Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver, a 2009 Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Writers Center, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.


Lisa C. Taylor is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently a collaborative collection with Irish poet and writer Geraldine Mills, The Other Side of Longing (Arlen House/Syracuse University Press, 2011). They were both named 2011 Elizabeth Shanley Gerson Readers of Irish Literature at University of Connecticut. She has a new collection due out in 2012.


Writers and Readers is a social gathering for people who love books. Readings will be preceded and followed by an informal discussion providing an opportunity to talk with others interested in reading, writing and thinking. Newly released publications will be available for purchase.

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Hope to see you there~*

Indiana Review Podcast Featured Poet, yours truly

Well, well look what I found....

Listen to “Exilio,” featured in our Summer 2006 issue, 28.1.

This was recorded during AWP 2008. Obviously impromptu answer to the question at the end, but still a nice surprise to find.

Red Flats

I had a great time last night. Every now and then it's nice to remember that I'm *this* person also-- that I am more than the mommy who helps with the Daisy Troop meetings. Although I like that person too.

Arts@Night draws a great, diverse crowd. Randall Horton is a fabulous host and has a very nice thing going over at the University of New Haven.

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I'm showing my age today -- jammin' out to Janet Jackson.

"Gimme a beat!"

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C. Dale has awesome news.

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I have a lot to catch up on today -- a review to polish, subs to read, and a contest to judge. I also have spring fever -- a high of 57 today! Most definitely a day for bright red flats.

Arts@Night with Poet Suzanne Frischkorn and UNH ‘Elm City Review’ Students - Feb. 17

What:

The University of New Haven (UNH) English department will host a reading and a Q&A session with poet Suzanne Frischkorn. Students from the UNH undergraduate literary publication, "The Elm City Review" also will present their work. The event is part of the UNH College of Arts and Sciences Arts@Night program which offers learning and enrichment to the community through the presentation of cultural events. The event is free and open to the public.

When:

Thursday, February 17, at 6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.

Where:

Moulton Lounge, Bartels Hall, UNH Main Campus, 300 Boston Post Road, West Haven, CT

Details:

Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of "Girl on a Bridge" and "Lit Windowpane." She also has penned five chapbooks, most recently, "American Flamingo." Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including "Ecotone," "Indiana Review," "MARGIE," "Verse Daily" and "Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems." She has poems forthcoming or in the current issues of "Barn Owl Review," "Copper Nickel - A Journal of Literature and Art," "MiPOesias," "North American Review," "PALABRA" and the anthology "Because I Told You So: Poems on the Happiness and Crappiness of Parenthood." From 2001 to 2005 she served as an editor for "Samsära Quarterly," and is currently an assistant editor for the poetry blog "Anti-."

A 2009 Emerging Writers Fellow of The Writer's Center, her honors also include the Aldrich Poetry Award and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.

For more information, contact assistant professor of English Randall Horton.

Quick

Here's my facebook status from yesterday:

home and still beaming from her wonderful experience at William Paterson University -- such insightful students, so curious, such great questions! Teaching the graduate workshop was amazing. I confess, I never really understood the vocation to teach, but I get it now.

An accurate summary and it still applies today.

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I came home to Simmons Buntin's new book, Bloom. It's a beautiful book, beautifully made. I'm looking forward to reading and reviewing it.

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I'm so ready for the weekend.

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And, yes. Exactly:

A couple of thoughts about winning & recognition, occasioned by some of my less literary passions. First, Gretchen Jones won Project Runway with a show of what could politely be called Sedona-Wear, highly commercial but yawningly predictable southwestern casual clothes. Mondo Guerra, the pint-sized Pinocchio of Denver, came in second with a show that demonstrated infinitely greater range, sophistication and creativity. Even third-place finisher Andy South’s collection, a little too safe to be as avant-garde as some of his warrior women costumes had been in the past, put on a better show than Jones, who might not have made in it to Fashion Week at all had the judges not applied an unwritten “one finalist must be a woman” rule, thereby dropping the effortless chic of Michael Costello. A poll in the LA Times showed viewers preferring Guerra’s collection with about 80% of the vote, Jones in second with just under 12% and South at 7%.