Glastonbury’s Poet Laureate

Beginning in 2015, the town’s Poet Laureate has served as an advocate for poetry and promoted the appreciation of and participation in poetry and literary arts activities among Glastonbury’s residents. Serving term of three (3) years, the poet is selected by a panel of local literary professionals and poets along with the Welles-Turner Memorial Library Board members.

Current Poet Laureate – Victoria Nordlund

Contact: glastonburypoetlaureate@gmail.com

Victoria Nordlund is the Poet Laureate of Glastonbury, CT, an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut, and lead master teaching artist of the The Nook Farm Writers Collaborative at The Mark Twain House & Museum. She is the 2016 NEATE New England Poet of the Year. Her poetry collections Wine-Dark Sea and Binge Watching Winter on Mute are published by Main Street Rag. She is a multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize Nominee, whose work has appeared in PANK Magazine, Rust+Moth, Chestnut Review, Pidgeonholes, Connecticut Literary Anthology, Maudlin House, trampset, 34 Orchard, ONE ART, and elsewhere. You can visit her at VictoriaNordlund.com.

Glastonbury Poet Laureate History

2021 - 2024 – Andrea Barton (Understudy: Samantha Jean Rice)
2018 - 2021 – Dr. Michael F. Lepore
2015 - 2018 – Alexandra Sergio

Poetry in the Parks

A Glastonbury Poet Laureate project. The Poetry in the Parks project is a collaboration between the Welles-Turner Memorial Library, the Glastonbury Poet Laureate, the Welles-Turner Memorial Library Second Century Fund, and the Town of Glastonbury (Parks and Recreation and Marketing and Communications Departments). Click here for more information.