CAFE MUSE LITERARY SERIES

The Word Works in cooperation with The Village of Friendship Heights presents monthly literary programs at 7 pm that open with Michael Davis on classical guitar. Open readings follow the featured readers. Sign up begins at 7:00pm. This event is free to the public.

Friendship Heights Village Center is a five-minute walk from the Friendship Heights Metro Rail Stop at 4433 South Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland. For further information call: 301 656-2797.

PROGRAMS IN 2012:

In 2012, The Word Works will continue to honor late poets held dear by the literary community at each of our 12 programs. More information will be posted soon. Starting at 7 pm, Michael Davis will open most programs with classical guitar music. Co-hosts are Adele Brown, Hailey Leithauser, and Laura Golberg. Thanks to The Village of Friendship Heights which provides the beautiful and well-located venue.

01/12/12---Poets Clifford Bernier & Anne Pierson Weise
with tribute to Barbara Moore

CLIFFORD BERNIER is the author of The Silent Art, winner of the 2010 Gival Press Poetry Award, and two chapbooks, Earth Suite (Finishing Line 2010) and Dark Berries (Pudding House Press). His poetry appears in the Potomac Review, The Baltimore Review, Innisfree, and other journals and is featured on the CDs Poetry in Black and White, Live at IOTA Club and Cafe, and Live at Bistro Europa. In January 2010 he appeared on the National Public Radio show “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress.”

ANNE PIERSON WIESE‘s book Floating City was selected by Kay Ryan for the 2006 Walt Whitman Award (LSU Press 2007). She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Discovery/The Nation Prize, First Place Prize in the Writers@Work Fellowship Competition, and a poetry fellowship from the NY Foundation for the Arts. Her work widely appears in Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and American Life in Poetry. She is a graduate of Amherst College and the New York University Graduate Writing Workshop, and currently lives and works in New York City.

January's program pays tribute to BARBARA MOORE

BARBARA MOORE (1925-1997) won The Word Works Washington Prize in 1990 for her book Farewell to the Body. In 1996, her book The Flame Tree was published by Basfal Books. She was a professor at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York.

02/6/12---Maryland Poets Association celbrating Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems including: Shirley Brewer, Frank Joseph, Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka, Margaret Mullins, Fernando Quijano II, Laura Shovan (editor) with tribute to Deborah Edelman

SHIRLEY J. BREWER is a poet, educator, and workshop facilitator. Shirley won first, second and third prizes in the Maryland Writers' Association 2010 Short Works Contest for Poetry. Publication credits include: Comstock Review, Cortland Review, Little Patuxent Review, and other journals. Her first poetry collection, A Little Breast Music, was published in 2008 by Passager Books.

FRANK S. JOSEPH’s poem “Beauty and the Beast Visit Elizabeth Arden” appears in the anthology, Life in Me Like Grass on Fire (Maryland Writers Assn.: 2010). His novel, To Love Mercy (Mid Atlantic Highlands 2006), has won seven awards and gone into a second printing. He is completing a novel, To Walk Humbly, the second of three novels in his Chicago Trilogy. He lives in Chevy Chase with his wife Carol Jason, a sculptor and painter.

DANUTA (DANKA) E. KOSK-KOSICKA is a poet, writer, translator, and photographer. She holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry. She has authored two books of translations from the Polish and two chapbooks of her original poems written in English. Her translations of poems by Lucille Clifton, Josephine Jacobsen, and Linda Pastan have been published in Poland; her translations of Lidia Kosk's and Ernest Bryll’s have appeared in over 50 publications in the U.S.A. She co-founded of One Tree Poetry Events at the Carroll Arts Center in Westminster, MD. She is translations editor at the literary journal Loch Raven Review.

FERNANDO QUIJANO III is the Vice President of the Maryland Writer’s Association & author of From the Bottom Up, an opinion column featured on theurbantwist.com. His work has been featured in Welter, Smile Hon, You’re in Baltimore, & Baltimore Fishbowl. An excerpt from his unpublished novel, Killing Lilith was included in the Apprentice House anthology Freshly Squeezed. In his spare time, he volunteers to lead free writing workshops for Baltimore’s under-served communities. Fernando was recently awarded a B Grant for his writing by the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund.

LAURA SHOVAN is editor of Little Patuxent Review. Her chapbook, Mountain, Log, Salt and Stone, won the inaugural Harriss Poetry Prize in 2010. She is the editor of Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems (MWA Books), featuring 50 Maryland poets. A Maryland State Arts Council Artist-in-Education, Laura is currently co-editing an anthology of student poems for MSAC.

February's program pays tribute to DEBORAH EDELMAN

DEBORAH EDELMAN (1960-2011), an award-winning professional writer, journalist, author, and researcher, was first published as a poet at age 18. Her poems have been published in the anthologies Poetry in Performance and Life in Me Like Grass on Fire, and online in Salon and SomaLit. She earned a masters degree in journalism from the Columbia Journalism School and a doctorate in public health from from the University of California, Berkeley.

03/5/11---Margo Berdeshevsky & Lilah Hegnauer with tribute to Edward Weismiller

MARGO BERDESHEVSKY’S newest poetry collection is Between Soul and Stone, (Sheep Meadow Press 2011.) Her But a Passage in Wilderness was also published by Sheep Meadow Press. Her book of short stories, Beautiful Soon Enough, illustrated with her own photo-montages, received Fiction Collective Two’s American Book Review Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award (University of Alabama Press 2009.) Her works have appeared in such American literary journals as the Kenyon Review, New Letters, and The Southern Review. In Europe, she has been published in Poetry Review, The Wolf, Siècle 21, & Confluences Poétiques. Forthcoming: a cross-genre novel titled Vagrant. Born in NYC, Berdeshevsky is currently writing and living in Paris.

LILAH HEGNAUER is the author of Dark Under Kiganda Stars (Ausable Press 2005), which was an honorable mention for the 2007 Library of Virginia Literary Award. Her poems have been published in such journals as The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Blackbird. Her book reviews have been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she teaches poetry and American Literature at James Madison University and the University of Virginia.

March's program pays tribute to Edward Weismiller. Thank you to Faye Moskowitz for her generous support.

EDWARD WEISMILLER (1915-2010), a Rhodes Scholar with M.A. From Harvard & Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford, who published his third book of poetry The Branch of Fire with The Word Works. He taught at George Washington University 1968-1980 and received many awards, including the Yale Younger Poets Award as selected by Stephen Benet in1936. When the United States entered World War II, he was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) for counterespionage. He was trained by the British secret services MI5 and MI6 and eventually awarded a Bronze Star and the Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise. He was a working Milton scholar until his death.

04/5/11---Angie Hogan & Kevin McFaddin with tribute to TBA

April's program pays tribute to TBA.

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05/7/11---2—Poets Karren Alenier & Yahia Lababidi with tribute to Cicely Angleton

KARREN LaLONDE ALENIER is author of five collections of poetry, including Looking for Divine Transportation, winner of the 2002 Towson University Prize for Literature. Forthcoming from Katywompus Press in January 2012 is her collection On a Bed of Gardenias: Jane and Paul Bowles. Her poetry and fiction have been published in such magazines as: the Mississippi Review, Jewish Currents, and Poet Lore. Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On, her jazz opera with composer William Banfield and Encompass New Opera Theatre artistic director Nancy Rhodes premiered at New York City’s Symphony Space Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater in June 2005. Composer John Supko is collaborating with her on How Many Midnights, an opera about Jane and Paul Bowles. She writes for Scene4 Magazine at scene4.com.

Egyptian-American YAHIA LABABIDI is an aphorist, poet, and essayist. He is the author of a new poetry collection, Fever Dreams (Crisis Chronicles Press), an essay collection, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly Dancing, and a collection of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Press), selected as a 2008 Book of the Year by The Independent (UK). Lababidi’s work has appeared in several anthologies, including the best-selling Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing and Geary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists. His writing has been translated into Arabic, Slovak, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, and Italian.

May's program pays tribute to Cicely Angleton

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06/4/11---Poet/Translators Patricia Bejarano Fisher & Yvette Neisser Moreno read from their translation of South Pole/Polo Sur, by Venezuelan poet María Teresa Ogliastri with tribute to TBA

PATRICIA BEJARANO FISHER has worked as a Spanish instructor, translator and language-learning materials developer in both government and academia. She has taught college-level English in her native Colombia and Spanish at the University of Maryland. Her translations of Gladys Ilarregui’s poetry will be included in the forthcoming English edition of the anthology Al pie de la Casa Blanca: Poetas hispanos en Washington, DC (At the Base of the White House: Hispanic Poets in Washington, DC).

YVETTE NEISSER MORENO is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her translations of Argentinean Luis Alberto Ambroggio’s poetry in Difficult Beauty (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009) were nominated for the National Translation Award and for a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at The George Washington University and The Writer’s Center.

MARÍA TERESA OGLIASTRI has been hailed by critics as one of the “essential” Venezuelan poets of the 21st century—along with luminaries like Eugenio Montejo and Rafael Cadenas—for her “refined lyric register.” She has authored five books of poetry, most recently Del diario de la Señora Mao (From the Diary of Madame Mao), and her work has been included in several significant anthologies and studies of contemporary Venezuelan poetry. South Pole/Polo Sur is her 4th book, and the first to appear in English.

June's program pays tribute to TBA

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07/2/11---Poets Joshua Gray & Annabelle Moseley with tribute to TBA

JOSHUA GRAY is a native of Washington DC, a member of the Takoma Park Arts and Humanities Commission and a Director of The Word Works Board. He is the author of Beowulf, a poetic adaptation for children, and has been published in The Iconoclast, Blind Man's Rainbow, Poets and Artists, The Chaffin Journal, and many others.

ANNABELLE MOSELEY is the author of five chapbooks, including A Field Guide to the Muses, published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. Her full-length collection, The Clock of the Long Now, is forthcoming from David Robert Books. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Lyric, The Seventh Quarry (Wales), and The Texas Review. In April 2011, her poem, "Breakable," was one of twelve poems featured on Oprah.com as part of O, The Oprah Magazine's celebration of Poetry Month. Among her distinctions is a 2008 Amy Award from Poets & Writers. She is founder and editor of String Poet, the online journal of poetry and music. She hosts the New York Times featured "String Poet Studio Series" at the Long Island Violin Shop. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Fairfield University as well as an MA in Religious Studies with a thesis on the medieval pilgrimage. Annabelle Moseley is a Lecturer at St. Joseph's College in Patchogue.

July's program pays tribute to TBA

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08/6/11---Goethe Institute poetry in translation with tribute to TBA

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August's program pays tribute to TBA

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09/13/11---Poets Renée Ashley & Ellen Cole with tribute to TBA

RENÉE ASHLEY is the author of four volumes of poetry, the most recent, Basic Heart, won the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press. Also the author of two chapbooks and a novel, she is on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing. Her awards include a Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence, the Charles Angoff Award, an American Literary Review Poetry Prize, the Chelsea Poetry Award, and the Robert H. Winner Award and the Ruth Lake Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the NEA.

Ellen Aronofsky Cole’s new chapbook, Prognosis, was published in January 2011 by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have been published in The Potomac Review, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Ars Poetica.com, in Paper Kite Press’s anthology, poem, home. Ellen has been a featured reader at many venues in the Washington area, including the Iota Club, the Kensington Row Bookshop, Poesis, VixArts and The Writer Center. She has a M.A. in drama from Catholic University.

September's program pays tribute to TBA

10/1/11---Poets Marilyn McCabe & Barbara Ungar with tribute to TBA

MARILYN McCABE’s Perpetual Motion was chosen by judge Gray Jacobik for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection by The Word Works, 2012, and her chapbook Rugged Means of Grace was published by Finishing Line Press, 2011. Her work has appeared in such literary magazines as Painted Bride Quarterly, Nimrod and Beloit Poetry Journal, and songs and translations have been featured on NumeroCinqMagazine.com. She reviews poetry books frequently on ConnotationPress.com.

BARBARA LOUISE UNGAR’s latest book, Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life, was a poetry best-seller for Small Press Distribution upon its arrival this spring from The Word Works. Prior books include Thrift and The Origin of the Milky Way, which won the Gival Press Poetry Award, an Independent Publishers Silver Medal, an Eric Hoffer Award, and the Adirondack Center for Writing Poetry Award. She is an English professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, and lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.

October's program pays tribute to TBA

11/8/11---Poet Greg McBride & TBA with tribute to TBA

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November's program pays tribute to TBA

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12/3/11---Sally Bliumis-Dunn & Margo Stever with tribute to John Haines

SALLY BLIUMIS-DUNN is author of Talking Underwater and Second Skin, both poetry collections published by Wind Publications. Her poems have been published in The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry London, and the NYT, among others. In 2008, she was asked to read in the Love Poems program at the Library of Congress. She teaches Modern Poetry and Creative Writing at Manhattanville College. She lives in Armonk, New York with her husband, John and their four children.

MARGO TAFT STEVER’s book Frozen Spring was winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry (2002) and Reading the Night Sky won the 1996 Riverstone Poetry Chapbook Competition. Forthcoming in 2012 is The Hudson Line (Main Street Rag). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The Cincinnati Review, Webster Review, New England Review, and Rattapallax. She is the founder of The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center and founding editor of Slapering Hol Press. She has read her poetry at such venues as the 2010 Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival, Folger Shakespeare Library, and Shanghai International Studies University.

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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

2010

01/4/10---Poets Katherine Young & Greg McBride

02/1/10---Poets Greg Pardlo & Ed Skoog

03/1/10---Poets Ned Balbo & Kristi Maxwell

04/5/10---Poets Jason Gray & Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

05/3/10---Poets David Dodd Lee & Leslie Wheeler

06/7/10---Poets Mark Bibbins & Jehanne Dubrow

07/19/10---Poets Myra Sklarew & Ethelbert Miller

08/2/10---Poets Henry Israeli & Patricia Davis

09/20/10---Dave and Janet Northrup [Chautauqua Readers]

10/4/10---Poets Idra Novey & Luis Alberto Ambroggio

11/1/15---Poets Barbara Goldberg & David Salner

12/6/10---Poets Catie Rosemurgy & Greg Williamson

2011—Special thanks to the New Room Poets, the town of Somerset, the Giant Food store of Friendship Heights, Joseph Goldberg, Marchant Wentworth, Mary Jane Barnett, Ruby Saunders, Hastings Wyman, Jeannine & Joseph Jeffs, Michael Collier, Heea Vazirani, and anonumous contributors who made the 2011 Cafe Muse programs possible. Also thanks to poets Anne Becker, E. Ethelbert Miller, Luybomir Nikolev, Donna Denize, Myra Sklarew, Greg McBride, and Grace Cavalieri for participating in tribute programs.

01/3/11---Poets Charles Jensen & Alexandra van de Kamp with tribute to Hilary Tham

02/7/11---Poets Melissa Stein & Merrill Leffler with tribute to Betty Parry

03/7/11---Poets Sue Ellen Thompson & Eleanor Wilner with tribute to Jacklyn Potter

04/4/11---Grace Cavalieri's German Cookbook: A Feast of Poets including Karren Alenier, Tina Daub, Nan Fry, Patricia Gray, Katherine Williams with tribute to Robert Sargent

05/2/11—Novelist Thomas Mallon & Poet Jason Schneiderman with tribute to Roland Flint

06/6/11---Poets Martin Galvin & Rod Jellema with tribute to Luciile Clifton

07/18/11---Poets Carlos Parada Ayala, Luis Alberto Ambroggio, and anthology guest poets with tribute to Egla Morales Blouin

08/1/11---Poets Kyle Dargan & Lew Watts with tribute to Sterling Brown

09/19/11---Megan Synder Camp and Michele Wolf with tribute to Ann Knox

10/3/11---Poets Linda Pastan and Jane Shore with tribute to Ann Darr

11/7/11---Word Girls Barbara Crooker, Meredith Davies Hadaway, & Erin Murphywith tribute to Chasen Gaver

12/5/11---Nancy Naomi Carlson & Carol Ann Davis with tribute to Reetika Vazirani

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For more information about other Word Works programs and general DC literary events, see Beltway News Events Calendar.

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