News from 3 Chairs
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2019: The Year in Books
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ― Charles W. Eliot As the years winds down, I have a book in queue (The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler) and the manuscript for a dear friend’s new book…
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A Holiday Toast
“Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.” — JANE KENYON — Happy Holidays & Heartfelt Best Wishes…
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A book is a gift you can open again & again!
Gift Ideas from Three Chairs Publishing Waiting Out the Storm Written from the shoreline of Connecticut and the wide and windswept beaches of Cape Cod, the poems in this book offer an intimate look at life transitions and how we cope with the unexpected. $15.00 FLOSSING A quirky photobook featuring artistic, ironic images of discarded…
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On Sale Now: Waiting Out the Storm
WAITING OUT THE STORM Poems by Jennifer A. Payne 5.5 x 8.5, Paperback, 44 pages ISBN: 978-0-9905651-4-7 $15.00 (plus tax + shipping) Poems on death, grief, and gratitude, written from the shoreline of Connecticut and the wide and windswept beaches of Cape Cod. Dedicated to the memory of MaryAnne Siok.
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New Poetry Chapbook Explores Death, Grief & Gratitude
Three Chairs Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of its newest book, Waiting out the Storm, a collection of poems about death, grief, and gratitude by Branford writer Jen Payne. Reflecting on the sudden loss of a close friend, Payne returns, as she does in her past books LOOK UP! and Evidence of Flossing,…
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Labor of Love and a New Book
Three Chairs Publishing is pleased to present our newest title: WAITING OUT THE STORM Poetry by Jennifer A. Payne 5.5 x 8.5, Paperback, 44 pages $15.00 (plus tax + shipping) “Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we…
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Hi, All Your Readers…
The question gets posed often, by Literary Hub and Shelf Awareness and BuzzFeed: What were your most influential books as a kid? And we all respond: Little Women or The Secret Garden, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or Harry Potter. Even I would start to tell you James and the Giant Peach and The Boxcar…
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Do you see what I see?
Check out artist Mark Dion’s New England Cabinet of Marine Debris currently on view at the Florence Griswold Museum. “Equal parts performance, documentation, and environmental clean-up, Dion and his assistants traversed the New England coast to gather rubbish washed up on the shores. The refuse was cleaned and categorize like cherished relics. The display references…
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Books Now Available at the Florence Griswold Museum!
Three Chairs Publishing pleased to announced that Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind and FLOSSING are now available at the Florence Griswold Museum Shop in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Please be sure to support the museum and these local retailers when you SHOP LOCAL! CONNECTICUT Bank Square Books 53 West Main Street Mystic, CT 06355…
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Poetry Reading at Clinton Art Gallery’s Poetry Place
On Sunday, August 18, The Clinton Art Gallery’s Poetry Place will present a reading by Antoinette Brim, Reginald Flood, and Jen Payne. This will be the fifth reading in the 2019 Sunday Series, which each month draws an extremely enthusiastic audience, who delight in listening to the work of some of the State’s finest poets,…
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Author Jen Payne Featured in International Anthology of Poems
Author Jen Payne’s poem MEASURING WATER BY SOUND has been included in Coffee Poems: Reflections on Life with Coffee published by World Enough Writers. This international anthology contains 167 “richly-roasted, verbally aromatic poems” by poets from 34 states, 5 provinces, and 12 countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, France, Ghana, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Singapore, Spain, and…
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The Bravery of Storytelling
Several years ago, I was meeting with a client I hadn’t seen in a few years. We started with the usual Hi. How are You? I’m Fine. How are You? small talk protocol, but then she saw a reliquary hanging on the wall in my office. The reliquary — traditionally a container for holy objects…
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