Brody To Be Featured Reader For WNPS

Former Newtown resident Polly Brody will be the featured guest for Wednesday Night Poetry Series (WNPS) on August 17.

WNPS offers weekly events at “The Garage,” Newtown’s teen center, at 53 Church Hill Road (opposite Burgerittoville).

Ms Brody is the author of four published collections: Other Nations, The Burning Bush, At the Flower’s Lip, and most recently, Stirring Shadows. She has twice received the Winchell Award from the Connecticut Poetry Society, and placed first, second, and third in national poetry competitions. Her poetry, essays and short stories have appeared in many literary journals and magazines including The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Potomac Review, Connecticut River Review, Northeast Magazine, Connecticut Muse, and Birdwatcher’s Digest.

Of Stirring Shadows, Susan Deborah King said: “Polly Brody looks with an unflinching eye upon many kinds of darkness: evil, illness, loss, betrayal, separation, death, and in language that is sure, searing, lyrical, and spare, cracks the safe of these hard realities for the gold cached within them.”

Ms Brody has taught, and still offers, workshops in creative writing. Wearing her other hat as a veteran field biologist, she has created and taught seminars on animal behavior. She holds a masters degree in biology. Many of her poems derive from her understanding of the natural world and its creatures.

Ms Brody was for many decades a Newtown resident and raised her family here. While she served as Chairman of the Newtown Conservation Commission (1965-1968) she was instrumental in saving the open space now known as Upper Paugussett State Forest, a peninsula of 790 acres in the Hanover district of Newtown.

 For additional information related to WNPS, call 203-426-6242 or 203-364-0631.