Creative Sustenance: Support Covenant Soup Kitchen's Mission

UConn's Creative Writing Program is raising money to benefit Covenant Soup Kitchen, Inc., in Willimantic. Any donation will help make an impact.

The Creative Sustenance Benefit Reading will feature Margaret Gibson and Heather Oakley; it will take place NOVEMBER 14th @ 5:30pm at the Barnes & Noble UConn Bookstore in Downtown Storrs (1 Royce Circle).

Attendees are encouraged to make a donation to benefit the Covenant Soup Kitchen in Willimantic. Realizing that people can be impoverished physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, socially and financially, Covenant Soup Kitchen provides food and access to basic services in an environment of care, love, support and safety to those individuals and families from the greater Windham community who come through their doors.

Margaret Gibson is the former Poet Laureate of Connecticut and the author of 14 books of poetry, including her most recent, Draw Me Without Boundaries. Her book The Glass Globe won the Connecticut Book Award in Poetry, and she recently edited an anthology titled Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis. She is a Professor Emerita at UConn-Storrs.

Heather Oakley is an actor, director, and educator who taught in NYC for over 20 years. She trained at The Atlantic Theater Company and was invited to join their faculty teaching NYU undergraduates and Conservatory students.