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December 2019
Linda Watanabe McFerrin and LCW host Tania Romanove Amochaev’s Book Launch
Amochaev’s new book is Never a Stranger. Join Linda and the Left Coast Writers for this book launch celebration.
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Reuben Jackson and Rose Solari Reading and Q&A at The American Poetry Museum in DC
Poet and jazz scholar, Reuben Jackson along with poet and novelist, Rose Solari, will be giving a reading at The American Poetry Museum in Washington, DC followed by a Question and Answer period.
Find out more »January 2020
Reuben Jackson to host Poetry Slam Competition
Reuben Jackson will host a poetry slam competition in the Dion Roy Event Room of St. Michael’s College as part of their MLK Week celebrations.
Find out more »February 2020
Rose Solari reads her work as part of “Readings on the Pike” in Arlington, VA
Rose Solari will be reading with fellow poets Hildie Block, Hannah Grieco, Dave Housley, Brandon Johnson, Nathan Leslie, Ralvell Rogers II, and Alysia S.
The reading will take place at Acme Pie Co.
Find out more »March 2020
Elizabeth Hazen’s “Girls Like Us” Book Launch
Elizabeth Hazen’s newest collection of poetry, Girls Like Us, will launch at Atomic Books in Baltimore, MD.
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Elizabeth Hazen to Read at Greedy Reads w/Dora Malech [CANCELED]
Elizabeth Hazen will read from her newest collection, Girls Like Us, at Greedy Reads’ Remington location. She will be joined by the extraordinary poet Dora Malech.
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Elizabeth Hazen to Read at Normal’s Books and Records w/ Marion Winik [CANCELED]
Elizabeth Hazen will read from her new collection Girls Like Us (ASP, March 2020) with Marion Winik at one of Baltimore’s most unique show spaces, Normal’s Books and Records. At the event there will also be musical performances by James BonTempo and Truth Tables.
This event is suspended and will be rescheduled for a future date.
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Reuben Jackson to Read at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore [CANCELED]
Reuben Jackson is to read at the Enoch Pratt Free Library Central Branch in Baltimore, MD. He will be joined by poet, Brian Gilmore.
This event is canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak
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Elizabeth Hazen to Moderate a Panel of Female Poets at City Lit Festival [CANCELED]
The panel will feature poets Marwa Helal, Dora Malech, Nia June, Cynthia Manick, Burgi Zenhaeusern (CityLit Press’ 2019 Harriss Poetry Prize winner), and Madhuri Pavamani as a special tribute to the Year of the Woman.
Find out more »April 2020
Elizabeth Hazen to Read at The Ivy w/ Steven Leyva [CANCELED]
Elizabeth Hazen will read from her newest collection, Girls Like Us, at the famous Ivy Bookshop. The incomparable Steven Leyva will join her.
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Linda Watanabe McFerrin to Host a Virtual Seminar “The Shape of Memoir”
This teleseminar is free and open to all
Sign up here: https://namw.org/2020/04/april-2020-member-teleseminar-presenter/
Description from the site:
From literary to commercial; from personal to political to historical to celebrity; from journalistic to fictionalized; from essays to articles to poetry to books—your memoir can take many shapes.
Finding the form most suitable to your particular story, style, and voice is essential in assuring that you and your readers will be happy with the results. Clarifying why you are writing, how to keep writing and what final form(s) you’d find satisfying are key to your success in completing and sharing your memoir.
In reviewing your many options, you’ll discover some of the questions you need to be asking yourself about your memoir project—questions that will help you solve for the answers you need to abolish obstacles and take yourself—and your readers—on a unique and exciting journey.
In the session we’ll talk about:
- Determining the shape of your memoir
- Advantages and disadvantages of various forms
- Abolishing obstacles
- Finding the joy in your project
- Knowing when and how to let go
Reuben Jackson, Elizabeth Hazen, and More Read at Kensington Day of the Book [CANCELED]
With Reuben Jackson and Nancy Naomi Carlson cast as the masters of ceremonies, and with readings by Elizabeth Hazen, Doritt Carroll, Robert L. Giron, and more, the Kensington Day of the Book Festival 2020 is not to be missed.
This event is canceled or suspended.
From their website:
“The title of the late poet/critic Kenneth Koch’s essay on the work of Frank O’Hara — “All the Imagination Can Hold” — is also a perfect description of the poetry to be featured at this year’s annual Kensington Day of the Book Festival. Free verse, metered ruminations, youthful and seasoned voices… bring your imagination…your family…your friends… They will thank you!”
Find out more »May 2020
Rose Solari and Richard Peabody at the 2020 Washington Writer’s Conference [CANCELED]
Poet, author, small press operator, Rose Solari will be participating in a publishing panel at the 2020 Washington Writer’s Conference. The panel’s title is “Hybrid, Small, Big, What Publisher is Right For You?” Solari will be joined by representatives from Mascot Books (hybrid publisher), Apprentice House (student-run publisher out of Loyola University) and Strange Violins (micro publisher).
Cancellation Announcement: HERE
More info HERE
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Rose Solari to Read at the Virtual “Noir at the Bar”
“D.C.’s Noir at the Bar reading series is going virtual, in support of the area’s independent bookstores!
Readers will have a chance to connect with DMV crime fiction writers and support the local bookstores they love. Each Friday night, eight to ten writers will read from their work, via the web site Crowdcast, and viewers will be encouraged to buy books from beloved DMV institutions like One More Page, Politics and Prose, Kramerbooks, Loyalty Books, and more.
And, as a special treat, we’ll have noir-themed songs from local jazz sensation Sara Jones, and local mixologist Chantal Tseng will craft custom cocktails for viewers to make at home, based on one of the books.” – E.A. Aymar (Host)
FREE VIA CROWDCAST – Sign up HERE
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Reuben Jackson, Elizabeth Hazen, and Rose Solari at the Gaithersburg Book Festival [CANCELED]
Come enjoy Gaithersburg’s annual book festival with ASP’s Reuben Jackson, Elizabeth Hazen, and Rose Solari who will read from their respective works.
From GBF’s website
“Since its inception in 2010, the Festival has quickly become one of the nation’s top literary events, attracting hundreds of award-winning and best-selling authors, poets and songwriters from across the country to its beautiful park setting.
The event was conceived and introduced by Gaithersburg Mayor (then council member) Jud Ashman, with the support of the Mayor and City Council and the Cultural Arts Advisory Committee. The Festival is produced by a core committee comprised of city staff and a dedicated group of volunteers who donate their time and talent.
Funded in part by generous sponsors and supported by the City of Gaithersburg, the Festival offers programming for all ages, is free to attend and is open to everyone.”
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