Doritt Carroll, author of In Caves, one of BrickHouse Books’ recent publications, will read from her work at The Writers’ Center on March 10 at 2 p.m.
Carroll is a D.C. attorney and poet, and her poems have appeared in journals such as Coal City Review, Poet Lore, Nimrod, Slipstream, Rattle, Plainsongs, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Maryland Poetry Review, Explorations, Negative Capability, Poet’s Canvas, Illuminations, The Baltimore Review, and Journal of Formal Poetry.
We’ve included the title poem from her next collection, Glottal Stop, here:
glottal stop
everything good
is in the things
that we don’t say
if we were sculptures
in a gallery
it would be the elegant
space between them
carved by their marble arms
the moment after the scritch
when the match
flickers but doesn’t yet
burst into flame
the tightening in the air
as the black hand
clicks to the minute
before
the minute
when the recess bell
is going to ring
if there were two birds
singing in two trees
it would be
the moment
when they both paused
not to take in air
but because it was
the right place
in both of their songs
to pause
the
glottal stop
Reading location:
4508 Walsh St.
Bethesda, MD 2015
