Poetry in the Park

04/13/2026

Free & Open to the Public!

WILLIMANTIC — Poetry in the Park will be returning this June on every fourth Thursday through September for Poetry in the Julia de Burgos Park.

03/26/2026

Please join us every fourth Thursday from June through September for Poetry in the Julia de Burgos Park, located at "Poet's Corner" (the intersection of Jackson Street and Curbstone Way) in Willimantic, CT. All readings begin at 6:30 p.m., except for the September reading, which begins at 6:00 p.m.

Poetry in the Park is a project of the Curbstone Foundation. Readings are free. Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Open mic usually follows. Our inclement weather location is the Windham Senior Center. Check for updates (on day of reading) at facebook.com/CurbstoneLiteraryProject

01/05/2026

https://www.elciudadano.com/en/50-years-after-its-release-santiago-poems-returns-to-chile-an-american-poets-harrowing-snapshot-of-terror-from-1973/12/19/

Original article: A 50 años de su publicación vuelve a Chile «Santiago Poems»: La instantánea del horror retratada por un poeta estadounidense en 1973

10/03/2025

Susan Powers, Poet Laureate of Scotland, CT, coordinates this new community open mic that starts next Thursday, Oct. 9. Bring poems, bring friends!

09/26/2025

Gratitude to this season’s featured poets, open mic poets, and audiences who turned out for the wonderful readings in the Julia de Burgos Park and Windham Senior Center!

09/26/2025

A few photos from tonight’s fantastic reading featuring V. Penelope Pelizzon. Gratitude to the Windham Senior Center for our rain venue.

09/25/2025

Tonight's reading featuring V. PENELOPE PELIZZON is at 6:00 p.m. at the Windham Senior Center (1 Jillson Square in Willimantic) in the Windham Room!

WILLIMANTIC — The next round in the Poetry in the Park series is just around the corner.

09/25/2025

Don't miss poet V. PENELOPE PELIZZON TONIGHT at 6:00 at our rain location:

The Windham Room at the WINDHAM SENIOR CENTER
1 Jillson Square
Willimantic, CT

🍁POETRY IN THE PARK 2025

With V. PENELOPE PELIZZON

Julia de Burgos Park
Corner of Curbstone Way & Jackson Street, Willimantic, CT

Thursday September 25 6:00* p.m.

*(Please note earlier start time for September reading)

V. Penelope Pelizzon’s A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye (Pitt Poetry Series, 2024) is a TLS Book of the Year and one of LitHub “Favorite Poetry Collections” of 2024. Her first book, Nostos, won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award; her second, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Pelizzon’s awards include a 2019 Hawthornden Fellowship, a 2012 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, the 2012 Center for Book Arts chapbook award, and a “Discovery”/ The Nation Award. She is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

Bring a lawn chair or blanket.
Open mic follows.

In case of inclement weather, the reading will be held at the Windham Senior Center, 1 Jillson Square.

Any venue change announcements will be made on the Poetry in the Park page on Thursday September 25.

09/22/2025

Don't miss poet V. PENELOPE PELIZZON Tonight @ 6:00 p.m. at our rain location:

WINDHAM SENIOR CENTER
1 Jillson Square
Willimantic, CT

🍁POETRY IN THE PARK 2025

With V. PENELOPE PELIZZON

Julia de Burgos Park
Corner of Curbstone Way & Jackson Street, Willimantic, CT

Thursday September 25 6:00* p.m.

*(Please note earlier start time for September reading)

V. Penelope Pelizzon’s A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye (Pitt Poetry Series, 2024) is a TLS Book of the Year and one of LitHub “Favorite Poetry Collections” of 2024. Her first book, Nostos, won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award; her second, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Pelizzon’s awards include a 2019 Hawthornden Fellowship, a 2012 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, the 2012 Center for Book Arts chapbook award, and a “Discovery”/ The Nation Award. She is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

Bring a lawn chair or blanket.
Open mic follows.

In case of inclement weather, the reading will be held at the Windham Senior Center, 1 Jillson Square.

Any venue change announcements will be made on the Poetry in the Park page on Thursday September 25.

09/10/2025

V. PENELOPE PELIZZON will read in the JULIA DE BURGOS PARK on Thursday, September 25 at 6:00 p.m.!

V. Penelope Pelizzon’s A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye (Pitt Poetry Series, 2024) is a TLS Book of the Year and one of LitHub “Favorite Poetry Collections” of 2024. Her first book, Nostos, won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award; her second, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Pelizzon’s awards include a 2019 Hawthornden Fellowship, a 2012 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, the 2012 Center for Book Arts chapbook award, and a “Discovery”/ The Nation Award. She is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

09/10/2025

Save the Date: Thursday, September 25 @ 6 pm for our final reading of this season’s series featuring acclaimed poet
V. PENELOPE PELIZZON!