Arts & Lifestyle
Enslaved Africans in the Colony of Connecticut
Black History Month
By Barbara HeimlichEditor
Sources: The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition; The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for...
Culture
Town Council Presentation for Black History Month
Councilman Alvin O'Neal (D Chairman ProTempore) District 3
Councilman Alvin O'Neal's upcoming presentation at the February 12th Council meeting for Black History Month is set...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
The World Is Too Much With Us
-William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770 - 1850)
The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and...
Arts & Lifestyle
Stratford Library Special “Meet-the-Author” Event for “Black History Month”
“White Wife Blue Baby”
Redding Author Gail HowardSunday, February 11Th from 2-3 p.m.Free and open to the publicStratford Library Lovell Room, 2203 Main Street
Join us...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Some Thoughts on Desire
Well, disappointingly, I’ll not be talking about sexual desire here, though you can go there if you like. The...
Arts & Lifestyle
Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Seeing His Way-for JeffBy Norah Pollard
A homeless man is living under the stairsof the defunct Stratford Festival Theater. He’s built a little fort...
Arts & Lifestyle
Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Miniver Cheevy
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
1 Grew lean while he assailed the seasons;
He wept that he was ever born,
1....
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
I don’t know what to say about this poem. There is nothing to say. It is perfect. Allen Ginsberg has said, “This...