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Grace Cavalieri and Other MD Poets Honor Stanley Plumly on Midday W/Tom Hall Elizabeth Spires and Michael Collier join Cavalieri in remembering the great Maryland Poet. The late Stanley Plumly (University of Maryland) Stanley Plumly, former Maryland Poet Laureate, Guggenheim Fellow, Capote awardee in literary critisism, PEN awardee in biography, Paterson Poetry awardee, LA Times Book Prize winner, passed away April 11th, 2019 at his home in Frederick, Maryland. He was 79 years old. Not only an artist but an educator as well, Stanley Plumly led the University of Maryland Creative … [Read more...]

"Melodic Recollections of Notable Musicians: Stories from the Stacks" Reuben Jackson on VPR Reuben Jackson discusses his twenty years working for the Smithsonian's Duke Ellington Collection in this hour long talk he gave over the Vermont Public Radio Airwaves in 2013. A baby-faced Duke Ellington fingering the keys "This isn’t HBO so I won’t go into any of the funny things I may have seen." Reuben Jackson thinks that hindsight is kind of funny, though in a disruptive way. That once you reconnect with a person you once were, you often end up not as smooth and contiguous a person … [Read more...]

Grace Cavalieri’s QUILTING THE SUN “Shines at Theater For The New City” NYC's Theater for the New City opens Grace Cavalieri's play "Quilting the Sun" to rave reviews. (directed by Shela Xoregos) "Step aside, Joseph; your amazing technicolor dreamcoat has some serious competition." Derek McCracken Art from Theater for the New City The Maryland Poet Laureate's 21st play, "Quilting the Sun"-- which was presented at the Smithsonian Institution and received its world premiere at Centre Stage, S.C.--is currently being performed by New York's amazing Theater for the New City. The … [Read more...]

Linda Watanabe McFerrin Interviewed in PANK Asian-American author, Leland Cheuk, sits down with Linda to discuss her own Japanese-American heritage and experience. Read the full interview here Excerpt from the Interview Cheuk: I loved the poem “Legacy” in which you write: “I’ve thrown out the kimonos, the costumes and robes / I’ve made a new self out of flowers and surgical steel / a shiny new self that blooms every spring / And I’ve cast all the ancestors / back over the sea”. Have you felt constrained by your heritage in your writing (or in the publishing of or … [Read more...]

INCOMING: The 2019 Book Launch is One Month Away! Join us at the writers center in Bethesda for the launch of three new books from ASP. Interesting story: The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland is where the co-founders of ASP, Rose Solari and James J. Patterson, first met. At the time Rose Solari was leading a poetry workshop there, while James J. Patterson studied the personal essay under former WaPo journalist and current novelist, Joanna Biggar. Interesting story Pt. 2: The last time ASP launched a book from the writer’s center was in Autumn, 2010. There, introduced by Rose … [Read more...]