Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, Outspoken Celebration of Asian Poetry, August 8th & 9th.

Hill-Stead hosts a culturally-rich weekend of Asian poetry, art, music, and conversation.  For the complete details and a schedule, see Outspoken Celebration in our calendar.

Celebrate the joy of poetry at Hill-Stead as we:

• Showcase the work of award-winning poets Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang
• Bring together writers, poets, and lovers of poetry for writing and recitation workshops
• Engage in dialogue about Asian and Asian-American poetry and the issues of language, bi-cultural identities, and assimilation experienced by Asian Americans living in America
• Gather voices of Asian poetry in a community reading to be performed in English as well as in native languages and dialects
• Display Asian art from Hill-Stead’s collection – rarely-seen original Japanese woodblock prints, Chinese porcelain, and other fine and decorative arts
• Feature Chinese classical and folk music performed on Chinese instruments: erhu, yangqin, dizi, and gehu

A wonderful article about Rennie McQuilkin, the new Connecticut poet laureate and founder of the Hill-Stead Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, appeared in the Hartford Courant on July 29, 2015.  Follow the link below to read:

Connecticut’s New Poet Laureate Wants Poetry To Be Part Of Mainstream Culture – Hartford Courant >