{"id":65363,"date":"2026-03-10T15:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=65363"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:42:21","slug":"poor-yorick-writers-open-mic-3","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/calendar\/poor-yorick-writers-open-mic-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Yorick: Writers&#8217; Open Mic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>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 and Featured Reader, MFA student Maria Zegarelli, 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 Reader: Maria Zegarelli<br \/>\nMaria Zegarelli is a creative nonfiction writer and MFA candidate expected to graduate this May from Western Connecticut State University. Zegarelli\u2019s personal lifestyle column, The Youngest of Us, published in The Town Tribune, reflects on identity, nostalgia, and the mundane everyday moments that make life\u2026 life. She traces how personal history follows us forward.<\/p>\n<p>\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 MFA students will receive priority for reading opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 and Featured Reader, MFA student Maria Zegarelli, from 3-5 p.m. at The Market at The Meetinghouse, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":65373,"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":[598,317],"tribe_events_cat":[326,70,71,4,76],"class_list":["post-65363","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-mfa-in-professional-and-creative-writing","tag-readings","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\/65363","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\/65363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65363"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=65363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}