Poetry Reading and Painting Exhibition featuring Gray Jacobik and Charles Douthat
The Poetry Institute -- New Haven
“TWO ARTS”
Poetry Reading and Painting Exhibition
Gray Jacobik and Charles Douthat
May 3, 2013
You are invited to a benefit reading for New Haven’s Institute Library by two award-winning Connecticut poets who are also artists. A selection of their paintings will be exhibited at the Library on the evening of the reading. Gray and Charles will read in tandem on coordinated themes, creating an exciting four-part synergy of poetry and painting. A ten dollar donation is requested.
847 Chapel Street, Second Floor, New Haven, CT
Doors Open at 6:30. Reading starts at 7:00. Reception to follow
Gray Jacobik’s books include The Double Task (The Juniper Prize); The Surface of Last Scattering; Brave Disguises (AWP Poetry Prize), & Little Boy Blue (CavanKerry). She’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts & the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. To learn more about Gray’s work as a poet visit grayjacobik.com; to view her abstract and non-objective paintings, visit grayjacobikartist.com.
Charles Douthat’s Blue for Oceans won the L.L.Winship-Pen New England Award as the best book of poetry published by a New England writer in 2010. His poems have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, & Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. Charles paints in acrylics, sometimes on recycled surfaces. Read more and see images of his paintings at charlesdouthat.com