Are you a poet? Every write poetry or enjoy poetry? Wonder what a Poet Larueate even is? Well, this episode will share so much about all of that and more!

Meet Enfield Connecticut Poet Laureate Nzima Hutchings. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Enfield in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. She is a best selling author and a very talented poet sharing her skill with her community.Learn why she started the Enfield Poets Cafe and why yWrite Host Angela Grout is a featured poet on Nzima's Poetry Cafe Show! Nzima Hutchings discusses the style of poetry which she prefers as well as discusses rhyming, two-wop poems, contrapuntal poetry, and her passion to create, perform, and present poetry and workshops which empower women to heal, and embrace their truths. Nzima's best selling book EVERY KINDA LADY, and her Sister Pages Anthology Series has evolved into so much more than just poetry on a page.

Listen to this podcast to hear about the retreats she hosts for women, and how as the founder of the Hartford L.I.T , she created the annual Hartford Book Festival. For more information on her retreats, symposiums, workshops, and presentations, contact her at enfieldpoetnzima@gmail.com.For more information on the annual Hartford Book Festival, visit www.hartfordslit.comTo learn about her show, her books, and her company EVERY KIND OF LADY, email: everykindalady@gmail.com If you are interested to join the Enfield Poet's Cafe, which is open to the public and held at local libraries around Enfield, CT, visit and follow the ENFIELD POET CAFE Facebook page. Subscribe and watch Nzima's Poetry Cafe Show on coxnorthcentral.comWatch Nzima's Poetry Cafe Show Episode which yWrite Host Angela Grout shares her experience writing with Nzima and Angela reads her own two poems! Click this link: Her books may be purchased online at Barnes & Noble or through contacting her directly at everykindalady@gmail.com Her books include:1. Every Kinda Lady and Her Sister Pages2. Connect and Align to Heal3. Belly Screams, Flowers, and Holes4. WE BE5. Every Kinda Lady: Monologues in Poetry Volume 1.6. Poetry Cafe SpielsMore to come.....For more information on Author Angela Grout, visit www.angelamgrout.comThanks for subscribing to yWrite. Please "like" and comment on this video and all videos you enjoy!

Maverick Prasad of Prasad Entertainment joins yWrite Host Angela Grout to share the benefits of the opportunity for storytellers, comedians, poets, and more to participate in open mics.Maverick hosts open mics around New England for creatives to share their work. Perfecting and fine tuning their material on a stage provides creatives to become comfortable performing as well as practice their material.Open Mics are popular within the comedy circuit, which Maverick knows well. He has been a comedian hosting events and performing for several years. Many turn to him for coaching and booking gigs for themselves.This episode of yWrite, Maverick shares what he thinks of Angela's performance during his Open Mic events, as well as how he recruits comics for gigs around New England. Learn how the community of open mic nights help each other and why it can benefit you. Maverick created WOW at the Ale House on Worthington St in Springfield over a year ago and it is the hot spot for comedians around New England to practice their jokes. WOW is Work Out Wednesdays and Maverick hosts this comedic writer's open mic each week. He also hosts Open Mic for all material on Tuesday nights at The Break on Boston Road, Spfld;.Maverick has upcoming shows at The Iron Fox Restaurant in Somers, CT and many many more around WMASS. For more information on Maverick Prasad, Prasad Entertainment, WOW, and more visit his Facebook page @ www.facebook.com/MaverickPrasad.Contact him at prasad.entmt@gmail.com to book him or use Prasad Entertainment for your next function!To watch Angela perform the CRUMBS monologue which was recorded at Maverick's Tuesday Night Open Mic, watch here.

How does a book become a Screenplay? How did Author Angela Grout write a Screenplay? And why did she write the Screenplay for her novel APRIL RAiN?

This episode is part of the Flying Solo Series where yWrite Host Angela Grout shares her own writing journey. Angela shares the organic evolution of her inspiration, the research which manifested into her lap, and introduces the ROCK she interviewed. How does one interview a ROCK, or a Muse?

Angela Grout shares her process of journalizing, researching, and the passion behind the story.Writers will appreciate seeing her storyboard, learning how Margaret Atwood, James Patterson, Diane Bell, Linda Bergman, Richard Mitas, Voyage Media, Danny Eaton, Mick Gorley, and her cousin Emmy winner Steve Kwasnik helped her on this journey.

From taking writing classes on line, studying successful scripts, and recieving Script notes from folks like them, this script became polished for its first table reading. Angela discusses how to plan a shooting scene, and shows the handwritten work behind the finished piece.

For more information on details mentioned inthe podcast visit these links:

yWrite Episode 20: Screenwriting w/Hollywood's Scriptwriting Goddess Linda Bergman!

yWrite Episode 17: Playwright Danny Eaton knows how to get from the page to the stage!

yWrite Episode 58: Filmwriting & Festivals w/Filmmaker Mick Gorley

yWrite Episode 5: Why Kirk Jonah Made a Movie and how he did it without writing a script

yWrite Episode EA9: The Story Behind APRIL RAiN for yWrite Short Special

yWrite Episode AE6: Angela Grout on Playwriting for APRIL RAiN for yWrite Short Special

Angela Grout's books can be found on her website www.angelamgrout.com and on Amazon.

Follow the journey of the movie on Facebook @facebook.com/aprilrainbyamgrout@facebook.com/AuthorAMGrout@facebook.com/angelagrout

More info on her cousin Steve Kwasnik's Emmy win for WWHY in Philadephia is at:https://www.linkedin.com/posts/whyy_whyy-took-home-4-mid-atlantic-emmy-awards-activity-7119675910970040320-KeKb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACaSVxkBzLjthdDrHckWmEZ7J_DklPoR4QUHis IMDB is

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1204991/bio/

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