July 22, Wednesday
6:30 pm
Cave Canem Poets with Marilyn Nelson / Music by Tomas Doncker
Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival
http://www.hillstead.org/activities/poetry.html
Soul Mountain Retreat (www.soulmountainretreat.org) is a writers' colony in Haddam, Connecticut, established in 2004 by Marilyn Nelson, then Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut. Cave Canem (www.cavecanempoets.org) is a non-profit organization committed to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry (Cave Canem's Executive Director, Alison Meyers, was previously the Artistic Director of Hill-Stead's Sunken Garden Poetry Festival). This evening's reading will feature several Cave Canem graduates participating in a summer retreat at Soul Mountain. Marilyn Nelson will also read her work.
Tomas DonckerProducer, singer, songwriter and guitarist Tomas Doncker will perform "acoustic/neo-soul, with a touch of blues." Doncker, a mainstay on the New York music scene, has performed with numerous respected recording artists, including Bootsy Collins, Ivan Neville and Bonnie Raitt.
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