ROAR Reading Series:
Special 80s Night Event!
Edmond Chibeau is a performance writer. He believes we are Microchip Aboriginals living in the Ur civilization of the Digital Age. His work has been published in The Nation, Multicultural Review, New England Theatre Journal, The World, and elsewhere. His work has been performed at the Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Hall, the Knitting Factory, The Ear Inn, Real Art Ways, and elsewhere. He teaches scriptwriting at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Christine Kalafus's essays have appeared in The Woven Tale Press, The Writer in the World, and PAGE Arts Journal. "I Hear You Make Cakes," performed at Laugh Boston, was selected by The Moth for its podcast. Blueprint for Daylight is Christine's memoir-in-progress. It's a story of survival: from her husband's affair, a cancer diagnosis, twins, and the water in her basement - all determined to swallow her whole.
Margaret Plaganis is a visual artist, writer, and educator. As a Connecticut master teaching artist, Margaret received grants to pilot creative arts programs which forged strong commitments to learning art and academic skills. Her collaborations with elementary and middle school educators in Hartford, along with her work with Very Special Arts CT and with the Yale School of Medicine, put her on a path to sixteen years teaching special education and visual arts in the Hartford Public Schools. She currently serves on the board of Hartford Performs. An exhibition of Margaret's sculpture and fabric was at Prosser Library in Bloomfield during February and March 2018, and her books of poetry can be viewed online in the Brooklyn Art Library digital collection: https://www.sketchbookproject.com/libraries.
Kathryn Fitzpatrick is a prose reader for the Adroit Journal, the former head editor of The Helix Magazine, and a bank teller. Her work, described as “biting, brutally honest, and inappropriate,” by her high school principal, has been published in Out Magazine, Unbroken Journal, and Gravel, among others. She is currently co-editing an anthology for Woodhall Press called Flash Nonfiction Food and lives in Thomaston, CT.
Pegi Deitz Shea is a two-time award winner of the Connecticut Book Award and the author of more than 400 published articles, essays, and poems for adult readers. Her works for young readers frequently focus on human rights issues, while her poetry for adults has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Ireland of the Welcomes, The Examined Life Journal, and others. She teaches in UConn's creative writing program. Toying with the term "phoetry," she also exhibits her photography and poems together. She founded and directs Poetry Rocks!, a quarterly reading series in Vernon, CT.
Jonathan Andersen has recently completed Rage for Me, his first young adult novel, and Augur, his second full-length collection of poetry. He is the author of Stomp and Sing (Curbstone Press, 2005) and the editor of the anthology Seeds of Fire: Contemporary Poetry from the Other U.S.A. (Smokestack Books-UK, 2008). His poems have appeared in many periodicals, including The Cafe Review, Connecticut Review, Counterpunch, Exposition Review, Freshwater, The Progressive, and Rattle, among others. He also has work forthcoming in The Chiron Review, Common Ground Review, and The Worcester Review. A professor of English at Quinebaug Valley Community College, he lives in Storrs with his wife, fellow writer and educator Denise Abercrombie, and their two sons Kit and Miles.
PARKING: Parking is available in the Downtown Storrs Parking Garage (33 Royce Circle), which is FREE for the first 2 hours, then just $1/hour. The Downtown Storrs Parking Garage is about a 2 minute walk from Barnes & Noble UConn.