Langston Hughes Poetry Reading

Feb 3, 2013
2:00 am

Rhonda Ward hosts Mystic Arts Center’s 5th annual poetry reading celebrating the legacy of America’s renowned African American poet, Langston Hughes. The afternoon will feature select readings from regional poets, educators, artists, students and members of the community.

Rhonda Ward has appeared at many venues to read her work including the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, the University of Connecticut at Avery point, the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, and Curbstone Press’ Poetry in the Park series in Willimantic, CT.  In May 2007 she traveled  to England to read at the Women’s Arts International Festival in Kendal, Cumbria, UK.

Ward’s poems have appeared in the Long Island Quarterly, Temper Review, and Siren among other journals, and online at Poetry Bay, Burning Word, and Poetry Vlog.

Mystic Arts Center
9 Water Street
Mystic, CT
View map