11/02/2026
FINAL SPOKEN WORD READING
FOR POETS AT LARGE’S FALL SEASON
November 21st will be the final spoken word event of 2026 for Poets at Large. That night poet and troubador Tommy Twilite will perform, followed by author, poet, musician Scott Laudati. This event begins at 7 p.m. at The Vanilla Bean, 450 Deerfield Road, Pomfret, CT. Suggested donation: $10.00. Contact [email protected] to be in the open mic. Recommended for age 16 and up.
Tommy Twilite is a Massachusetts troubadour who combines music, poetry, exploration and adventure into his performances. He is the co-founder and former director of the Florence Poets Society, former editor of Silkworm and is a Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate. He also hosts the Twilite Poetry Pub on WXOJ Valley Free Radio. His latest chapbook, Kills No Bird is a follow up to his 2021 collection, Fifty Words for Rain. Twilite is well known as someone who can transport an audience to another realm with his words and music. He was honored by the National Baseball Poetry Festival in 2024 for his poem, “The Tools of Ignorance.”
Scott Laudati runs Bone Machine, a punk rock press, from his apartment in NYC with his dog, Josie. He is the author of Play The Devil (novel) and RAINBOW ROAD (poetry). His essays/poems/short stories have been published by The Columbia Journal, The Stockholm Review, Hobart, The Belfast Review, The Adirondack Review and others. Laudati has won the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, The Riggs Gold Medal Essay Award and The Stark Award in Fiction. Follow him for his ruminations on pizza & existentialism published yearly by X-R-AY magazine at . Poets at Large is a project of Windham Arts and is sponsored in part by bankHometown, Linemaster Switch, Charter Oak FCU, WHZ Financial and The Putnam Area Foundation. The Vanilla Bean is ADA compliant.
