Katherine E. Young, poet laureate of Arlington, VA and NEA translation fellow, will be appearing at the Arts Club of Washington on January 31st for a reading as part of the Club’s First Poetry Lunch. For tickets and more information, visit the Arts Club of Washington.
Fiction Writers Review recently interviewed BHB poet Adrian Koesters about her new release Union Square (Apprentice House Press), a novel set in 1950s Baltimore. Koesters talks about her own connections to Baltimore, and how she approached the various intersectional themes that arise in the novel.
Read the review in full at Fiction Writers Review.
Congratulations on the new release, Adrian!
Three Days with the Long Moon, the titular poem from Adrian Koesters’ most recent BHB release, was featured in American Life in Poetry, which is curated by Ted Kooser, US Poet Laureate.
Read Column 705 here, along with Adrian’s poem.
Congratulations, Adrian!
Flyer for Poetry & Conversation Event on October 3rd. Courtesy of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Flyer Text:
Enoch Pratt Free Library – Your journey starts here.
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POETRY & CONVERSATION
Geraldine Connolly is the author of a chapbook, The Red Room, and four full-length poetry collections: Food for the Winter, Province of Fire, Hand of the Wind, and her new book, Aileron. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Cortland Review, and Shenandoah. It has been anthologized in Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High School Students; Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework; and The Doll Collection.
Doritt Carroll is a native of Washington, D.C. Her poems have appeared in Coal City Review, Poet Lore, Gargoyle, Nimrod, and Slipstream, among others. Her collection GLTTL STP was published in 2013, and her chapbook Sorry You Are Not An Instant Winner was published in 2017.
Wednesday, October 3, 6:30 p.m.
Maryland State Library for the Blind & Physically Handicapped
415 Park Avenue
The free educational and cultural programs at Pratt libraries are made possible by the generous support of donors to the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
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Doritt Carroll was recently nominated by the editors of Beltway Poetry Quarterly for Best of the Net in 2018. The Best of the Net award recognizes poetry that was first published online. Congratulations, Doritt!
John Adam Wasowicz, author of Daingerfield Island, recently revealed to The Connection that a beloved character had a different fate in an earlier draft of the book.
[Reading Daingerfield Island now? ! SPOILER AHEAD !]
David Reece was initially destined to die, but early readers of the novel had objected to his death so much that Wasowicz says he rewrote the scene and saved him. Wasowicz now calls Reece a “principal player” in the upcoming sequel to the thriller.
Read more at The Connection.
Kathi Wolfe’s poems “Memento Mori” and “Slow News Day in July” were recently featured in the New York Times opinion piece “Poetry Is a Way of Being in the World That Wasn’t Made for Us” by Jennifer Bartlett. Congratulations, Kathi!
Kathi Wolfe is the author of The Uppity Blind Girl Poems, the 2013 winner of the Stonewall Chapbook Competition. Kathi is also a contributor to the Washington Blade.
