Natasha Le Bel '98 of Silliman College is one of five prize-winning undergraduate poets from the state's colleges who will be featured in a poetry reading on campus sponsored by the Connecticut Poetry Circuit.
Le Bel and the other student poets will read their works at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, in the Silliman College master's house, 505 College St. The event is free and open to the public.
The undergraduates were chosen to represent their colleges in the Connecticut Student Poets contest sponsored by the Connecticut Poetry Circuit. The latter is an offshoot of the New England Poetry Circuit, which was formed in 1964 at the request of the Academy of American Poets to provide colleges with readings by fine poets. As Connecticut Student Poets, the undergraduates will tour the state's colleges to present readings. This is the 29th group of students to take part in the poetry circuit.
A major in the history of art, Le Bel has also studied drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design and at the Pont-Aven School of Art in Brittany. She spent last summer working and giving gallery talks for the department of 20th-century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In 1996, two of the poems that Le Bel wrote in high school were selected by poet Adrienne Rich for publication in the anthology "Best American Poetry" of that year.