Witness Stones Poets

Jazz & Poetry Featured on Juneteenth

with Jesse Hameen II Jazz Quartet & poets Marilyn Nelston, Kate Rushin, Rhonda Ward & Antoinette Brim-Bell

Marilyn Nelson Receives Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets

Marilyn Nelson has received the Wallace Stevens Award, a lifetime achievement honor given annually by the Academy of American Poets to...

Antoinette Brim-Bell is Connecticut's New Poet Laureate

Antoinette Brim-Bell has been named Connecticut's State Poet Laureate. Brim-Bell is one of the four poets who partnered with the Old Lyme...

Juneteenth Jazz & Poetry Celebration at the Florence Griswold Museum on June 18.

Featuring Nat Reeves Jazz Quartet & Poets Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin, Rhonda Ward, Antoinette Brim-Bell Saturday, June 18, 2022, 2 pm,...

Witness Stones Old Lyme Featured on Podcast with Isabelle Barber

Witness Stones Old Lyme was featured in the third in a series of podcasts that highlight the work of organizations forwarding equity in...

Old Lyme Witness Stones Poets at Old Lyme First Congregational Church

On February 20, 2022, Antoinette Brim-Bell, Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin & Rhonda Ward, the poets that gave voice to some of the enslaved...

Poems by Witness Stones Poets featured in November 2021 Poetry Magazine

The cycle of poems written by Witness Stones Old Lyme poets Antoinette Brim-Bell, Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin, and Rhonda Ward, is...

Witness Stones Poet Ronda Ward featured in The Day

New London Poet Laureate and Witness Stones Poet Rhonda Ward was featured in The Day on June 4, 2021. Click on the photo below to watch...