Otfinoski's Two Plays

[Steven Otfinoski]

Steve Otfinoski is one of nine playwrights from across the country and Canada whose work was chosen for the Warner Theatre's 6th International Playwrights' Festival in Torrington. His one-act comedy, "Signing Off" will be performed on Friday, October 13, at 8 p.m. at the Warner's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre. The play is about a strange encounter between an author and a customer at a book signing. (Familiar territory!) Reservations can be made at warnertheatre.org.

Closer to home, Steve's Trumpian fantasy, "White House Nanny," will have a staged reading on Saturday, October 7, at 2 p.m. at the Stratford Library on Main Street as part of Squarewrights' lastest edition of Quickies in the Stacks: Lost in the Pages. Admission is free and no reservations necessary.

[Laurel Peterson]

Sounds great, Steve! Thanks for sending along.

In case there are poets out there, the Norwalk Public Library and Norwalk Poet Laureate are hosting a series called Poets in Conversation. The second will be next Thursday night, October 5, at 7 PM at the library, and will feature Marianela Medrano and me, talking about poetry and social justice. I'm including the fall schedule here for anyone who is interested.  Thanks!!

Laurel Peterson

October 5, 7 PM, NPL: Marianela Medrano and Laurel Peterson

Marianela Medrano is a Dominican writer, a licensed professional counselor and a certified poetry therapist. Dr. Medrano was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and has lived in Connecticut since 1990. A poet and a writer of non-fiction and fiction, she holds a PhD in psychology, a professional counselor’s license and certification as a poetry therapist.

Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines in Latin America, Europe and the United States. The following are her individual publications: Oficio de Vivir (1986). Santo Domingo: Editorial Buho; Los Alegres Ojos de la Tristeza/Happy Eyes of Sadness (1987). Santo Domingo: Editorial Buho; Regando Esencias/ The Scent of Waiting (1998). New York: Alcance

Curada de Espantos/One Who Has Seen It All (2002).  Madrid, Spain:

Ediciones Torremozas; Prietica. A children story (2012). Santo Domingo: Alfaguara Infantil.

Ars Poetica .

 

Laurel Peterson is the current poet laureate of Norwalk. She is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College (NCC), where she teaches literature, creative and expository writing, and interdisciplinary courses in the arts and social sciences. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Manhattanville College. 

 

Her writing career has included a column for Gannett Suburban Newspapers on local history, as well as academic conference papers and serving as editor of the literary journal Inkwell. Her work has been published in many small literary journals. She has two chapbook, That’s the Way the Music Sounds, (Finishing Line Press, 2009); Talking to the Mirror (Last Automat Press, 2010). Her mystery novel, Shadow Notes, was published by Barking Rain Press (2016). A full length poetry collection, Do You Expect Your Art to Answer? was published by Futurecycle Press (2016).

 

November 2, NPL, 7 PM:  Ann Cefola and Robert Masterson

 

Ann Cefola is the author of Free Ferry, (Upper Hand Press, 2017); Face Painting in the Dark (Dos Madres Press, 2014), St. Agnes, Pink-Slipped (Kattywompus Press, 2011), Sugaring (Dancing Girl Press, 2007) and translator of Hélène Sanguinetti’s Hence this cradle (Seismicity Editions, 2007). A Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Residency recipient at the Santa Fe Art Institute, she also received the Robert Penn Warren Award judged by John Ashbery. Ann lives in the New York suburbs with her husband Michael and their shelter-rescued dog, Daisy.

 

Robert Masterson, professor of English at CUNY-BMCC in New York City, has authored Artificial Rats & Electric Cats, Trial by Water, and Garnish Trouble. His work appears in numerous publications and he holds degrees from the University of New Mexico, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado; and Shaanxi Normal University, the People’s Republic of China. Masterson has a whole wall of awards at his office.

 

 

December 7, NPL, 7 PM: Ralph Nazareth and Duane Esposito

 

Ralph Nazareth was Professor of English at Nassau Community College on Long Island. For the past ten years he has been a volunteer teacher of creative writing at maximum security prisons in New York State. He is also Managing Editor of Yuganta Press in Stamford and president of Grace Works International, a charitable foundation involved in outreach in the developing world. Nazareth has participated in poetry festivals in India, the Middle East, and in Latin America. His poetry and prose have appeared in books, magazines, and journals in the US and abroad, including most recently in the award-winning collection Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry and Multilingual Anthology: The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2014. His collection of poems Ferrying Secrets was published in 2005 in Hyderabad, India and Glass: Selected Poems will be released by El Quirófano Ediciones in Ecuador in the fall of 2015.

 

Duane Esposito, Professor of English at Nassau Community College, has an MA from SUNY Brockport and an MFA from the University of Arizona. Many years ago, his work was selected by Diane Glancy for an Academy of American Poets Award. His poems have appeared in dozens of publications. Declaration For Your Bones (Yuganta Press, 2012) is his third book. Previously, he has published two books of poetry: Cadillac Battleship (brokenTribe Press, 2005) & The Book of Bubba (Brown Dog Press, 1998). He lives on Long Island with his wife & children.

 

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From: Steven Otfinoski <sotfi...@hotmail.com>
To: FairfieldCW <fairf...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:15 AM
Subject: [Fairfield CW] Otfinoski's Two Plays

Steve Otfinoski is one of nine playwrights from across the country and Canada whose work was chosen for the Warner Theatre's 6th International Playwrights' Festival in Torrington. His one-act comedy, "Signing Off" will be performed on Friday, October 13, at 8 p.m. at the Warner's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre. The play is about a strange encounter between an author and a customer at a book signing. (Familiar territory!) Reservations can be made at warnertheatre.org.

Closer to home, Steve's Trumpian fantasy, "White House Nanny," will have a staged reading on Saturday, October 7, at 2 p.m. at the Stratford Library on Main Street as part of Squarewrights' lastest edition of Quickies in the Stacks: Lost in the Pages. Admission is free and no reservations necessary.

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