Sunday Kind of Love Open Mic
Date and Time
Apr 20, 2014 5:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Apr 20, 2014 5:00 pm
14th & V
Sunday Kind of Love Open Mic Poetry features emerging and established poets from the Washington, DC area and around the nation. Each program includes one to two featured poets and an open mic segment. Cosponsored by Split This Rock, the national organization dedicated to poetry of provocation and witness. Â
Sarah Browning is the director ofÂ
Split This
Rock , a national organization dedicated to
integrating the poetry of provocation and witness into
public life and supporting the poets who write this vital work. She
is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for
Policy Studies , poetry co-editor of On The Issues Magazine , author ofÂ
Whiskey in the Garden of Eden ,
and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the War: An
Anthology . The recipient of an artist fellowship from
the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, she has also
received a Creative Communities Initiative grant and the People
Before Profits Poetry Prize.
Katy Richey is a poet and teacher living
the Washington Metro area. Her work has appeared in Beltway
Poetry Quarterly and forthcoming in Gargoyle Magazine. She
has performed poetry at venues throughout the Washington, DC
metro area including the 2006 Capital BookFest, and has been
a featured reader at the Arlington Public Libraries Reading
Series and WPFW 89.3 FM "On the Margin." She has written
curriculum for the Montgomery County Public Schools ESOL
(English for Speakers of Other Languages) Department
including poetry and creative writing pathways. She
currently teaches English in Silver Spring,
ELIZABETH ACEVEDO was born and raised in New York City.
She holds a BAÂ in Performing Arts from The George
Washington University and is currently an M FA
candidate at the University of Maryland. Acevedo has been
published or has w ork forthcoming in The Acentos
Review, The Ostrich Review, and Callaloo. She is aÂ
CantoMundo Fellow and a member of the 2013 Callaloo Creative
Writing Workshop. She lives and works in
Washington, DC, as a teaching artist for Split This Rock.
Pablo Miguel Mart?nez?s collection of
poems, Brazos, Carry
Me (K?rima Press), received the 2013 PEN
Southwest Book Award for Poetry; its judge?s citation
notes that Mart?nez is ?a highly perceptive observer and
scholar of our human frailties and common history.? Writing
in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sandra Cisneros
praised Brazos, Carry Me as her favorite book of 2013.Â
Mart?nez?s work has appeared in journals, newspapers, and anthologies, including Americas Review, Best Gay Poetry 2008, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, El Paso Times, Gay and Lesbian Review, North American Review, San Antonio Express-News and This Assignment Is So Gay. Mart?nez has been a recipient of the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Artistic Excellence, the Oscar Wilde Award, and the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize. His literary work has received support from the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation and the Artist Foundation of San Antonio.
Mart?nez is a Co-Founder of CantoMundo, a national retreat-workshop for Latina/o poets. He teaches English at the University of Louisville. Â
$5 cover. Wristbands are available for purchase online here at midnight prior to the event, and on-site from 10:00 AM until sold out. Limit 4 wristbands per person. Sorry, no refunds.
Seating is available on a first come, first seated basis. No saved or reserved seats are allowed. Failure to check in within 30 minutes of advertised start time may result in a forfeiture of seats. Â Â
