01/4/10---Poets Katherine Young & Greg McBride
GREG MCBRIDE is the author of the chapbook, Back of the Envelope (Copperdome Press 2009) and winner the 2008 Boulevard Emerging Poet prize. His work appears widely, in Arts and Letters, Connecticut Review, Gettysburg Review, New York Quarterly, River Styx, Salmagundi, and Southern Poetry Review. A former host of Cafe Muse, he lives in Silver Spring, MD where he edits The Innisfree Poetry Journal.
KATHERINE E. YOUNG is the author of Van Gogh in Moscow (Pudding House Press 2008) and Gentling the Bones (Finishing Line Press 2007.) Her poetry appears in Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Daily and numerous other publications. A former host of Café Muse, she teaches poetry and composition at the University of MD where she is completing her MFA.
02/1/10---Poets
Greg Pardlo & Ed Skoog
GREG PARDLO's first book, Totem, won the American Poetry Review/ Honickman Prize in 2007. His poems, reviews and translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, on National Public Radio and elsewhere. A finalist for the Essence Magazine Literary Award in poetry, he is recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received other fellowships from the New York Times, the MacDowell Colony, the Lotos Club Foundation and Cave Canem. Pardlo is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at George Washington University and divides his time between Brooklyn and Washington, D.C. See what the GW News has to say about Greg Pardlo and read some of his poems.
ED SKOOG is the author of Mister Skylight, (Copper Canyon Press, 2009). His poems appear in numerous publications including The Paris Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Poetry, and American Poetry Review. He currently lives in Fairfax VA, where he is the 2009-10 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at George Washington University. Visit Ed Skoog's website for more info.
03/1/10---Poets Ned Balbo & Kristi Maxwell
NED BALBO is the author of Lives of the Sleepers (U. of Notre Dame Press), winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize, and a ForeWord Book of the Year Award, Galileo’s Banquet (WWPH, 1998) which was awarded the Towson University Prize, and the chapbook Something Must Happen (Finishing Line Press, 2009)
His work appears in Antioch Review, Shenandoah, River Styx, and numerous other publications. He teaches at Loyola University Maryland
KRISTI MAXWELL is the author of Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta Press, 2008) Elsewhere & Wise (Dancing Girl Press, 2008), and Hush Sessions (Saturnalia Books, 2009). Her poems appear widely in Denver Quarterly, Phoebe, Tarpaulin Sky, and other journals She is currently a PhD candidate in English & Comparative Lit at the University of Cincinnati, where she completed a graduate certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
04/5/10---Poets Jason Gray & Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
JASON GRAY is the author of Photographing Eden (Ohio UP, 2008), winner of the Hollis Summers Prize, and two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead (Kent State UP, 2007) and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo (Dream Horse, 2003). His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere, and his work has been awarded a grant from the Maryland State Council for the Arts and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He currently co-edits the online journal Unsplendid
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YERMIYAHU AHRON TAUB is the author of What Stillness Illuminated (Parlor Press, 2008) and The Insatiable Psalm (Wind River Press 2005.) His work appears in The Adirondack Review, Prairie Schooner and other journals, and he was honored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage as one of the New York’s Best Emerging Artists. He lives in Washington DC, where he is a Senior Cataloging Specialist at the Judaica section of the Library of Congress.
05/3/10---Poets David Dodd Lee & Leslie Wheeler
DAVID DODD LEE is the author of Downsides of Fish Culture (New Issues 1997), Arrow Pointing North (Four Way Books, 2002), and Abrupt Rural, (New Issues 2004) and he has three new books forthcoming in 2010, The Nervous Filaments, (Four Way Books), Orphan, Indiana (Univ. of Akron Press) and Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere: The Ashbery Erasure Poems (BlaxeVox). His poems appear widely in Field, Prairie Schooner, and other journals.
LESLEY WHEELER is the author of five books including Heterotopia, winner of the 2009 Barrow Street Poetry Prize, Heathen (C & R 2009) Voicing American Poetry (Cornell 2008) and The Poetics of Enclosure, (Tennessee 2002) and co-editor of Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv (Red Hen 2008). She lives in Lexington, Virginia where she is Professor of English at Washington and Lee University.
06/7/10---Poets Mark Bibbins & Jehanne Dubrow
MARK BIBBINS is the author of The Dance of No Hard Feelings (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), and the Lambda Award-winning Sky Lounge. He was the founding Poetry Editor of Lit, and his poems have appeared in Boston Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, and in numerous anthologies, including Best American Poetry. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School and Columbia University.
JEHANNE DUBROW is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Stateside (Northwestern University Press 2010). Her work has appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner. She is an assistant professor in literature and creative writing at Washington College, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
07/19/10---Myra Sklarew & Ethelbert Miller
08/2/10---Poets Henry Israeli & Patricia Davis
HENRY ISRAELI is the author of Child of Nature, (New Directions: 2010) Praying to the Black Cat, (Del Sol: 2010), New Messiahs (Four Way Books: 2002) and in translation, Fresco: the Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku (New Directions: 2002). He has been awarded fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Canada Council on the Arts. His poetry and translations have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, and Verse.) He lives outside of Philadelphia, where he is the founding Editor of Saturnalia Books (www.saturnaliabooks.com)
PATRICIA DAVIS is the author of the play Alternative Methods and co-author with Dianna Ortiz of The Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth (Orbis, 2002.) Her poems and articles have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the Nation, Potomac Review, and Cabin Fever. She worked for many years for the Guatemala Human Rights Commission and most recently as a Poet in the Schools in Arlington, VA.
09/20/10---Dave and Janet Northrup [Chautauqua Readers]
10/4/10---Poets Idra Novey & Luis Alberto Ambroggio
IDRA NOVEY is the author of The Next Country, winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award (Alice James Books 2009) and translator of Paulo Henriques Britto’s The Clean Shirt of It (BOA Editions 2007) which won a PEN Translation Fund Award. Her poems have appeared in Slate, The Paris Review, A Public Space and numerous other publications.. She teaches in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and serves as Deputy Director for Columbia’s Center for Literary Translation.
LUIS ALBERTO AMBROGGIO
11/1/10---Poets Erika Meitner & Joshua Poteat
ERIKA MEITNER is the author of Ideal Cities, winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series (Harper Perennial, 2010), Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore (Anhinga, 2003), and the forthcoming Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls (Anhinga, 2011) Her poems appear widely in American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Republic and other publications. She is an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the MFA program.
JOSHUA POTEAT is the author of Illustrating the Machine that Makes the World, (University of Georgia Press 2009) Ornithologies, winner of the 2004 Anhinga Poetry Prize, (Anhinga 2006) and the National Chapbook Award winner, Meditations. He has received numerous fellowships, including The Millay Colony and the VA Commission for the Arts, His work appears widely in Columbia, Ninth Letter, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications.
12/6/10---Poet Catie Rosemurgy & Greg Williaimson
CATIE ROSEMURGY is the author of The Stranger Manual (Graywolf 2010) and My Favorite Apocalypse (Graywolf 2001) She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award. Her work appears widely, in Boston Review, Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, on Poetry Daily, and in numerous other publications. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at The College of New Jersey.
GREG WILLIAMSON
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PAST PROGRAMS
Strathmore Hall
Arts Center 1999-2002:
1999
01/12/99---Poet
Reuben Jackson
2/10/99---Storyteller
Elloise Schoettler
3/10/99---Poets
Nathalie Anderson and Andrea Collins
4/14/99---Poets
Barri Armitage and Terence Winch
5/12/99---Poets
Barbara Goldberg and Stanley Plumley
6/9/99---Poet
Karren Alenier and Novelist David Fenza
07/14/99---Storyteller
Elloise Schoettler
8/11/99---Performance
poet Kenny Carroll
9/8/99---Poets
Vladimir Levchev and Henry Taylor
10/13/99---Storyteller
Elloise Schoettler
11/10/99---Performance
poet Sylvana Straw
12/8/99---Poets
Mel Belin and Ron Wray
2000
01/12/00---Celebration
of Winners: A Retrospective Of The Washington
Prize (With poets: Barbara Goldberg, Elaine Magarrell,
Brandon Johnson, Martha Sanchez-Lowery,and Richard Peabody.
With editors Karren Alenier, Hilary Tham and Miles Moore.
2/09/00---Poet
David Gewanter
3/8/00---Poet
Miles Moore
4/12/00---Storyteller
Elloise Schoettler
5/10/00---Musica
Viva Program with poet Lori Tsang, pianist Carl Banner,
artist Marilyn Banner
6/14/00---Performance
poets Silvana Straw and Brian Gilmore
7/12/00---Ascension
Series and Ethelbert Miller present poets Rebecca Villarreal
and Eva Day 8/9/00--Mariposa Series and Maritza Rivera
present poets Forestine Bynum, David Daumit and Ryan McAllister
09/13/00---Poets
Peter Blair & Brandon Johnson
10/11/00---Performance
artist Kwelismith & poet Robert Sargent
11/15/00---Poet
Hilary Tham
12/13/00---Storyteller
Elloise Schoettler
2001
01/10/01---Performance
poet D.J. Renegade
02/14/01---Open
Mike Competiton on Love
03/14/01---Poets
Barbara DeCesare and Barrett Warner
04/11/01---Poets
Myra Sklarew and Anne Harding Woodworth
05/09/01---Poets
Hiram Larew and Michael Wurster
06/13/01---Minimus
Productions with fiction by Terence Mulligan and poetry
of Miles David Moore celebrating the recording Fatslug
Unbound. With poets Miles David Moore, Mel Belin, and
Judith McCombs.
07/11/01---Poets
Grace Cavalieri and Kim Roberts
08/8/01---Best
of Galaxy Hut with poets Cynthia Hoffman, Erich Hintze,
and Brandon Johnson
10/10/01---Poets
Mark McMorris and Terence Winch
11/14/01---Editors
of Potomac Review presented winners of the 2001 Potomac
Review poetry contest: Judith McCombs, Kathy Michaels,
Thom Stuart
12/12/01---Poets
Doris Brody and Patricia Garfinkel
2002
01/9/02---Poets
Michael Glaser and Steve Scafidi
02/13/02---Poets
Anne Marie Macari and Belle Waring
03/13/02---Novelist
Sarah Blake and poet Joshua Weiner
04/10/02---Poets
Elizabeth Arnold and John Haines
05/08/02---Poets
Michael Collier and Richard McCann
06/12/02---Open
Mike Poetry Competition subject: cuisine
07/10/02---Crow's
Eye ViewÑWord Works Publication Celebration
08/14/02---Poets
of Tupelo Press: Jeffrey Levine, Nancy Naomi Carlson,
Jennifer Michael Hecht, and Margaret Szumowski
9/11/02---A
Night of RemembranceÑreadings from the new anthology edited
by William Heyen September 11, 2001: American Writers
Respond
10/9/02---Poets
Jean Nordhaus and Linda Pastan
11/13/02---Poets
Jean Donnelly and Rod Smith
Friendship Heights
Village Center:
2003
01/16/03---Poets
Julianna Baggott & Michael Gushue
02/20/03---Poet
Andrea Hollander Budy
03/20/03---Minimus
journal publication reading: poets Barbara Alfaro &
Patricia Gray
04/17/03---Novelist
Donna Hemans & poet Ross Taylor
05/15/03---Poets
Christopher Conlon & Hilary Tham
06/19/03---Poets
Grace Schulman & Maria Terrone
07/17/03---Poets
Greg Donavan & John Hoppenthaler
08/21/03---Kenny
Carroll hosts a Writer's Corp Slamwith poet Isaac Colon
10/1/03---Publication
reading from Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge with
poetsBett Notter, Ellen Sazzman, Michele Wolf
11/20/03---Poets
James Hopkins & Suzanne Rhodenbaugh
12/18/03---Potomac
Review presents poets Nancy Allinson,P. Michael Mastrofrancesco,
Joanna Robin
2004
01/15/04---Poets
Rick Barott & David Gewanter
02/19/04---Poet
James Hoch & novelist Howard Norman
03/18/04---Poets
Kelly Cherry & Cornelius Eady
04/15/04---Poets
Stephen Corey & Jim Peterson
05/20/04---Poets
Richard Blanco & Terese Svoboda
06/17/04---Poets
Gray Jacobik & Ron Mohring
07/15/04---Jacklyn
Potter hosts a ublication reading of Cabin Fever: Poets
at Joaquin Miller's Cabin with W. Perry Epes, Brian
Gilmore, Anne Harding Woodworth
08/19/04---Poets
Rick Cannon & Sean Enright
09/16/04---Poets
Christopher Conlon & Miles David Moore
10/21/04---Poets
C.M. Mayo & Elizabeth Rees
11/18/04---Poets
Jody Bolz & Gary Stein
12/16/04---Rick
Peabody presents a Gargoyle publication reading with poets
Rose Solari & Alan Spears.
2005
01/20/05---Novelist
Benita Kane Jaro & Rod Jellema
02/17/05---Poets
Lavonne Adams & Judith McCombs
03/17/05---Poets
Kelly Cherry & Cornelius Eady
04/21/05---Translation
readings with poets Luis Alberto Ambroggio & Semezdin Mehmedinovic
05/19/05---Poets
Mark Cox & Myra Sklarew
06/16/05---Publication
reading by Deborah Ager & 32 Poems magazine
07/21/05---Poets Naomi Ayala & James Deahl
08/18/05---Poets
Grace Cavalieri & Darcy Chargo
09/15/05---Poets Lia Purpura & Jonathan Vaile
10/20/05---Poet Rosemary Klein & fiction writer Leslie Pietrzyk
11/17/05---Poet
Nan Fry & fiction writer Ron Tanner
12/15/05---Publication
reading by Robert Giron & Gival Press with poets PiotrGwiazda,
Kim Roberts, J.D. Smith
2006
01/19/06---Poet Donna Denize & Playwright Sean O'Leary
02/16/06---Poets
David McAleavey & Rose Solari
03/16/06---Poets Ann Knox & Hailey Leithauser
04/20/06---Translation reading Dilara Hashem/Carolyne Wright and Roberto Severino/Judy Neri
05/18/06---Poets Vladimir Levchev & Alicia Ostriker
06/15/06---WWPH reading with Moira Egan & Dean Smith and celebrating Tin Mines & Concubines by Hilary Tham
07/20/06---Jazz poet Cliff Bernier with performance artist Verneice Turner and poets Yoko Danno with James Hopkins
08/17/06---Passager magazine reading with poets Shirley Brewer and Norma Chapman
09/21/06---Poets Nathalie Anderson & Nick Johnson
10/19/06---Poets Jennifer Gresham & Richard Lyons
11/16/06---Poets Brandon Johnson & Diane Lockward
12/14/06---Tributes to Robert Sargent led by poet Grace Cavalieri & to Jacklyn Potter led by poet Anne Becker
2007
01/18/07---Poets Jody Bolz & Jean Nordhaus
02/5/07---Poets
Moira Egan & Dwaine Rieves
03/5/07---Poet E. Lousie Beach & novelist Frank S. Joseph
04/9/07---Poets Jason Gray and John Surowiecki
05/7/07---Poets Elizabeth Hadaway & David Hamilton
06/4/07---Poets Bruce Bennett and Joshua Weiner
07/2/07---Poets Barbara Lefcowitz & Terence Winch
08/6/07---Publication Reading—COMMON WEALTH: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania with poets Barbara DeCesare, Joanne Growney, Marjorie Maddox, and Jerry Wemple
09/17/07---Poet and translator Judith Hemschemeyer
10/1/07---Poet Pamela Harrison and playwright Juanita Rockwell
11/5/07---Poet Sarah Browning & Writer Richard McCann
12/3/07---Echoes poetry anthology reading with poets Steve M. Buter and Susan Levy
2008
01/07/08---Poets Kurt Olsson & Gretchen Primack
02/04/08---Poets Margo Berdeshevsky and Stanley Plumly
03/03/08---Poets Mary Ann Larkin and Bruce MacKinnon
04/07/08---Poets Anne Becker and Heddy Reid
05/05/08--Poets Dan Kaplan and Bryan Penberthy
06/02/08---Poets Christopher Conlon and Erica Dawson
07/07/08---Poet Grace Cavalieri and Prartho Sereno
08/04/08---Family Pictures: Poems and Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones anthology reading with contributing poets and editor Kwame Alexander
09/15/08---Poets Sandra Beasley and Susan Settlemyre Williams
10/06/08---Poets Barbara Goldberg and Kathy Mangan
11/17/08---Poets Karren L. Alenier and Kevin Prufer
12/01/08---Poets Rick Barot and Martin Galvin
2009
01/5/09---Poets Kathi Wolfe & Brian Bodeur
02/2/09---Poets Brandel France de Bravo & Wendell Hawken
03/2/09---Poets Joshua Poteat & Cecily Parks
04/6/09---Poets Rosemary Winslow & Barbara Crooker
05/4/09---Poets Judy Neri & Anne Harding Woodworth
06/1/09---Poets Wayne Miller & Eric Pankey
07/6/09---Sculptor Mark Behme & Poet JoAnne Growney
08/3/09---Poets Lavonne J. Adams & Yvette Neisser Moreno
09/21/09---Poets Deborah Ager & Deborah Bogen
10/5/09---Poets Kathy Fagan & Angie Estes
11/2/09---Poets Judith Robinson & Michael Wurster
12/7/09---Poet Kathi Morrison-Taylor & Kara Candito
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