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Picnic Grove #6 at the Military Road overpass, Rock Creek Park, NW Washington, DC. 7:30 pm with open
readings after featured readers. Free. Kathi Morrison-Taylor and Deborah Ager host.p>
6/9---Deborah Bernhardt & Marcela Sulak
6/16---Tyler Caroline Mills with Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Katherine Casey & Baobao Zhang
6/23---Chris Goodrich & Nancy Krygowski
6/30---Melanie Henderson & Luke Johnson
Cafe
Muse Literary Series
Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South
Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD. 7:00 pm with open
readings after featured readers. Free. Adele Steiner and Laura Golberg host. Michael Davis plays
classical guitar at most programs.
7/6---Sculptor Mark Behme & Poet JoAnne Growney
8/3---Poets Luis Alberto Ambroggio & Yvette Neisser Moreno
9/21---Poets Deborah Ager & Deborah Bogan
The
Iota Poetry Series
Iota Bar and Restaurant,
2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Virginia at 6
pm. Open readings follow. Admission free. Miles David Moore hosts. For
more information, call 703-522-8340 or 703-256-9275.
6/14---Greg McBride & Katherine Young
7/12--- "Deanotations" celebration
with Dean and Pam Blehert
8/9--- Special All-Open Reading (no featured readers this time)
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WORD WORKS ANNOUNCES
2009 MILLER CABIN POETRY SERIES
The Word Works is pleasd to announce the 34th season of poetry programs at Joaquin Miller's cabin in Rock Creek Park. Opening night June 9 features Deborah Bernhardt and Marcela Sulak. The program runs every Tuesday until July 28th. Kathi Morrison-Taylor and Deborah Ager are co-hosts.
The Word Works thanks all those generous supporters of the Cabin Series. Without this support the programs at the Cabin would not be possible. Special thanks to the following people not mentioned on the printed flyer: Michael Barnes, Paul Grayson, Ava Leavel Haymon, and Anne Harding Woodworth. To obtain this year's handsome flyer designed by Janice Olson, please come to Picnic Grove #6.
2009 JACKLYN POTTER YOUNG POETS
Judith Freeman, who served as judge of the Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Competition, selected Katherine Casey of Woodbridge Senior High School and Baobao Zhang of Episcopal HIgh School as winners of the 22nd annual competition which gives two high school students the opportunity to read with an established poet at the Miller Cabin in Rock Creek Park. On June 16th they will read with Tyler Caroline Mills who teaches at the University of Maryland.
The Word Works thanks Perry Epes for his management of this prize.
2008 HILARY THAM CAPITAL COLLECTION TITLE: BY THE NEST by KATHI MORRISON-TAYLOR
The Word Works is pleased to announce the publication of Kathi Morrison-Taylor's book By the Nest in the Hilary Tham Capital Collection series. This collection looks at the trials and miracles of family. Morrison-Taylor's poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Stand, Seattle Review, and New York Quarterly. Recent honors include winning the 2008 Moving Words contest in Arlington, VA. This is her first book.
By the Nest is available for purchase.
2008 Washington Prize Winner
The Word Works proudly announces that Ace by Richard Carr, of Minneapolis, MN, is the winner of the 2008 Washington Prize. A former systems analyst, web designer, and tavern manager, Mr. Carr has taught writing and literature at several universities and community colleges. His book Mister Martini won the 2007 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and appeared earlier this year from the University of North Texas Press.
The Word Works thanks all participants who entered the prize competition. Purchase Ace now. All contestants will receive a copy of this book. For more information about this year's prize, visit the Washington Prize page.
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