Hill-Stead is very pleased to announce that Lisa Lappe has accepted the dual position of Marketing and Public Relations Manager/Sunken Garden Poetry Festival (SGPF)  Program Manager, effective February 2.

Lisa has an extensive background in public relations, advertising and event management.  She has served as a public relations coordinator at Mintz & Hike in Avon and Rensselaer in Hartford and  has worked in the college relations office at the University of Saint Joseph.  Lisa holds a BA in Economics and Art History from Mount Holyoke College.

Brad Davis, founding editor of Hill-Stead’s online poetry journal, Theodate, and editor of the festival’s 20th anniversary anthology, Sunken Garden Poetry 1992-2011, has had a new book of his own poems, Still Working it Out, published in the Poiema Poetry Series. It is available online from Cascade Books or your favorite online bookstore.

Left to right: Wenell St. Hill, Colleen Feeney, Shana Blatt, Sophia O’Brien-Udry, and Taite Puhala.

Click here to learn more about our annual Fresh Voices competition and to read work by these young women.

If you missed some events or would like to relive the great moments, have a look at our highlights shows done for local public access television. Nutmeg TV airs our shows in the spring, in anticipation of the new festival season, but you can watch them at your convenience online; click here to see the shows available.  Simsbury Community Television airs the same series of shows and makes them available on its YouTube channel.

Sunken Garden Poetry: 1992-2011 – Have you purchased your copy of the 20th anniversary anthology yet?

Have you heard about the Live Poets Society?  Join this growing circle of poetry lovers and we’ll arrange for priority seating and special opportunities to meet the poets.  Or contribute to the Phyllis Joffe Memorial Poetry Fund, an endowment established by Sara Niego in 2010 in honor of her mother, the late Phyllis Joffe, who for many years was co-producer of festival radio broadcasts.

DONATE HERE –Help keep the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival alive for years to come!