Faith Vicinanza

Ms. Vicinanza is Poet Laureate, Emerita for Southbury, Connecticut, appointed in October of 2022. She has served as a Master Teaching Artist in Poetry for the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, as editor for several literary magazines, and as the founder and executive director of the Connecticut Poetry Festival (1997, 2001, 2003). Ms. Vicinanza is the author of six collections of poetry, is currently working on several new collections, and a memoir. A member of two national slam poetry teams, Ms. Vicinanza competed in National Slam Championships in 1994 and 1996. She was a member of the U.S. Slam Team that competed in Sweden in 1997, as well as the executive director of the 1997 National Poetry Slam Championships held in Middletown, Connecticut, the largest single poetry event in the state’s history. Ms. Vicinanza has been featured in venues from Stockholm, Sweden to San Francisco, has been a poet laureate nominee for the state of Connecticut as well as the recipient of the 2003 Connecticut Commission on the Arts Advocates for the Arts Award. When she isn’t writing, she leads poetry and publishing workshops, works full-time as a cyber security professional for an international bank, owns Vicinanza Studios & Gallery, and, oh yea, she dances.

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About the February 17th Workshop

Whether we write poetry or prose, it isn’t always easy to carve out time for ourselves to write. This workshop will provide an opportunity for writers of all skill levels and genres to simply write, and have time to share a new work or work in progress for peer review and feedback, as well as find encouragement and support to progress our own craft and our goals as fellow writers.

Come write your poems, your personal stories, your children’s stories, your memoir by joining us on Sunday mornings for guided writing prompts and focused writing time.

Poetry / Story Telling Writing Workshop