The Twenty-Fourth Annual
ROSE GARDEN READING
Saturday, June 18, 2022 - 1PM
St. John's Episcopal Church, Hubbard Hall, 679 Farmington Ave., West Hartford, CT
Featuring two Connecticut poets—
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Julien Strong | Luisa Caycedo-Kimura |
Julien Strong is the author of two full-length poetry collections,
The Mouth of Earth (University of Nevada Press) and Tour of the Breath Gallery (Texas Tech UP) and two novels,
The Fainting Room and Burning the Sea. The recipient of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize, a
fellowship from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and a 2020 Individual Artist Grant from the state of Connecticut,
their work appears in many journals, including The Nation, The Southern Review, Poetry Daily, River Styx,
Hayden's Ferry Review, Southwest Review, and The Sun. Strong has taught creative writing at Connecticut College
and the University of Hartford and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor
in Creative Writing at Central Connecticut State University. They live in Hamden, CT with their spouse and daughter.
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born writer, translator, and educator. Her honors include a
John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at the Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale,
and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee,
her poems appear in The Cincinnati Review, Sunken Garden Poetry 1992-2011, RHINO, Diode,
Shenandoah, Mid-American Review, Nashville Review, The Night Heron Barks, On the Seawall,
and elsewhere. She serves as an Editor of Connecticut River Review, a board member
of the Connecticut Poetry Society, and a member of the Hill-Stead Museum's Poetry Advisory Committee.
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