At Curley’s in downtown Stamford
All are welcome. Please come with family and friends.

June 30, 2009
7:30 p.m.

Catherine Ednie has been involved in the poetry scene in Stamford since 1998 when she approached Ann Yarmal about starting a poetry group at the Unitarian Universalist Society. That group became PoemAlley, which later evolved into PoemAlley at Curley's. With grant funding from the City of Stamford, Catherine has worked on a number of poetry-related projects, including Poetry Emerging, an anthology of local poets, and Stamfordwrites.org, a website devoted to local poets and writers. A systems analyst by profession, she enjoys using her computer to do book design, and make flyers, posters, and programs for poetry related events. Her writing appears in online magazines quarrtsiluni and Fraglit, and in In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Literature (Impassio Press).

“My writing is deeply rooted in keeping a personal journal, a regular practice for 40+ years. Around the time my second son was born, I became disenchanted with traveling the same old territory in my journal. Using techniques from poetry - rhyme, rhythm, metaphor, detail, narrative - I found I could go to new places in my notebook. From reading and studying poetry, I learned ways to keep writing meaningful yet mysterious, and engaged with both emotion and language. I've explored automatic writing, prose poetry, constraint-based writing (OuLiPo), and visual poetry. I like to surprise myself when I reread what I have written.” CE