Local Poet to Give Nov. 5 Reading

Noted poet Rennie McQuilkin will be the featured reader Nov. 5 at Westminster School’s Friday Night Readings series. The series features readings given by guest writers and Westminster students on selected Fridays during the academic year.

McQuilkin, a resident of Simsbury, is the author of 10 poetry collections, three of which have won awards, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the state of Connecticut. For many years, he directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival at the Hill-Stead Museum and subsequently founded Antrim House Books, which publishes poetry, memoir and photography. In 2003, he received the Connecticut Center for the Book’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2010, he won the Center's Connecticut Book Award for Poetry for his most recent book, “The Weathering."

The Westminster reading is free and open to the public and will take place from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of the Armour Academic Center.

Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the reading and ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to the Armour Academic Center.