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Cafe
Muse Literary Series
Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South
Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD. 7:30 pm with open
readings after featured readers. Free. Adele Steiner hosts. Michael Davis plays
classical guitar at most programs.
9/15---Poets Sandra Beasley and Susan Settlemyre Williams
10/6---Poets Barbara Goldberg and Kathy Mangan
11/17---TBA
The
Iota Poetry Series
Iota Bar and Restaurant,
2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Virginia at 6
pm. Open readings follow. Admission free. For
more information, call 703-522-8340 or 703-256-9275.
8/10---Lenny Lianne & expanded summer open reading with guest host Michael McDermott
9/14---14th Anniversary Celebration with featured readers from the past year (no open reading this time)
10/12--- Anne Becker & Kathi Wolfe
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WORD WORKS ANNOUNCES
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. We expect publication of Ace in January. All contestants will receive a copy of this book. For more information about this year's prize, visit the Washington Prize page.
2008 HILARY THAM CAPITAL COLLECTION TITLE: BY THE NEST by KATHI MORRISON-TAYLOR
The Word Works is pleased to announce that Kathi Morrison-Taylor's manuscript By the Nest has been selected for publication in the Hilary Tham Capital Collection series. This collection looks at the trials and miracles of family. We expect publication this fall. 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 advance purchase.
2008 JACKLYN POTTER YOUNG POETS
The Young Poets Competition director W. Perry Epes announces that Will Frazier of Episcopal High School and Megan Hauptman of H-B Woodlawn Program are the 2008 winners of the Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Competition. Both are 10th graders. Teri Cross-Davis, who runs poetry programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library, served as this year's judge.
As part of their prize award, these winners read in the Word Works Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series on June 10 along with Diane Lockward, What Feeds Us, winner of the
2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize.
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email address is: editor@wordworksdc.com
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2008 The Word Works
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