{"id":62396,"date":"2026-01-12T09:21:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=62396"},"modified":"2026-01-17T15:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:27:55","slug":"poor-yorick-writers-open-mic-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/calendar\/poor-yorick-writers-open-mic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"(CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER) Poor Yorick: Writers&#8217; Open Mic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">(CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER)<\/span> POOR YORICK \u2013 WRITERS\u2019 OPEN MIC:<\/strong> Join WCSU\u2019s Department of Creative &amp; Professional Writing Program for a Writers\u2019 Open Mic with Pop-up Book Shop from<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> 3-5 p.m.<\/span> at The Market at The Meetinghouse, located at 602 Ridgebury Road in Ridgefield \u2014 just a 12-minute drive from the WCSU Westside campus!<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Poor Yorick, the program\u2019s literary journal, this event celebrates both WCSU\u2019s lifelong community of writers and the vibrant literary voices of the Greater Danbury Area. We\u2019re excited to share our program\u2019s long-standing tradition of these open mics with the local community beyond the boundaries of our campus with an evening of storytelling, poetry, and prose of every kind at The Market at The Meetinghouse. This event will feature a Pop-up Book Shop hosted by Rainy Day Paperback Exchange of Bethel, offering a curated selection of used books.<\/p>\n<p>Featured Student Reader: Sophia Caselnova<br \/>\nCaselnova is a recent M.F.A. candidate in Creative Nonfiction at Western Connecticut State University focusing on memoir writing, having recently finished her first collection of work, titled &#8220;The Climb,&#8221; which includes essays, poems, and vignettes. Previously, Caselnova worked as a journalist where she won an award for her coverage of a municipal lawsuit, and her poetry has been featured in Poet\u2019s Choice and Sad Girl Diaries. She now leads creative nonfiction workshops for veterans enabling them with the tools necessary to tell their stories.<br \/>\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>This event is open to the public! All writers are welcome to read their works* and all readers invited to sit back and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>*Please note: Current WCSU M.F.A. students will receive priority for reading opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER) POOR YORICK \u2013 WRITERS\u2019 OPEN MIC: Join WCSU\u2019s Department of Creative &amp; Professional Writing Program for a Writers\u2019 Open Mic with Pop-up Book Shop from 3-5 p.m. at The Market at The Meetinghouse, located at 602 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":62411,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","wds_primary_tribe_events_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[104,598],"tribe_events_cat":[326,70,71,4,76],"class_list":["post-62396","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coffeehouse","tag-mfa-in-professional-and-creative-writing","tribe_events_cat-affiliated-event","tribe_events_cat-coffeehouse","tribe_events_cat-entertainment","tribe_events_cat-public-events","tribe_events_cat-reading","cat_affiliated-event","cat_coffeehouse","cat_entertainment","cat_public-events","cat_reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/62396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/62396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62396"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=62396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}