Welcome to my website
After a twenty-year career as a lawyer, I became a teacher of law at the University of Hartford. As I thrive in classrooms and had begun writing poetry, I then decided to get a Master's Degree in Creative Writing in 2013. "Blinding Light," my first book of poetry, grew out of my MFA thesis. Since then, I've taught both creative writing and literature as an adjunct at the college level. I was named Poet Laureate of the town of West Hartford in 2015.
My work on the board of Connecticut Poetry Society resulted in Poets on Poetry, a monthly series of interactive close readings of famous poems led by local moderators in libraries. After five years in the Hartford library, we expanded in 2019 from the Hartford Public Library to a total of five libraries throughout Connecticut. Our schedule is posted on www.CtPoetry.net. In addition to information about my writing and reading events, I will share what I have learned as a woman in 12-step recovery. I am active in AA, Al Anon, and Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families. My latest book, "Beneath the Steps: A Writing Guide for 12-step Recovery" combines my recovery story, poems I have written based on the 12 steps and writing prompts to guide others in recovery in creative writing. See "Recovery Writing" on this site. |
About Christine Beck's Poetry:
“I think [her] poems are wonderfully thoughtful, and clear, and frank. What's more, she has a unique story to tell--the imposition upon childhood of organized religion. Poems are a kind of theatre, and Beck manages her dramas with the light, sure touch required to turn experience into art. This is fascinating work." -
Tony Hoagland
“What I enjoy most about ‘What If the Angel Warned’ is its strangeness, its tone of postlapsarian foreboding, and the dramatic tension between the poem’s double voices, neither of which seems to listen to the other. It’s difficult to bring to life a subject as hackneyed as the Fall, and the poet who wrote ‘What If the Angel Warned’ does so with originality and—more importantly—a supple and finely measured sense of the poetic line” -Brian Brodeur
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