The director of Fine Arts at E.O. Smith High School in Storrs, CT, Denise has published her work in the Minnesota Review and Phoebe: the journal of feminist scholarship, among many others, and has won the Curbstone Press and the Still River Writers’ prizes for poetry.
She has read her work widely and occasionally performs and directs original and existing works with Stage Left Ensemble in small theaters, cafes, and prisons. She also helps coordinate Curbstone Foundation’s Poetry in the Julia de Burgos Park series in Willimantic, CT.
An open mic will follow, with sign-up available onsite before the reading.