Listening Party
- Event Start
Jan 14, 2023
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Event Start
DADDY, DADDY, CAN I BE AMBITIOUS? | A Busboys and Poets Books PresentationJoin us to learn what it means to be ambitious and children’s storytelling.Author Joanne Sanders’ new book is about a little girl named Joy who wishes to play for her school basketball team. Joy is nervous about tryouts, and her father encourages her (more…)
PSALMS FOR BLACK LIVES | A Busboys and Poets Books PresentationJoin us to discuss the inspiration to encourage the community to undo structural racism. In the summer of 2020, while composing a series of devotionals on the Psalms for their church, the Double Love Experience, authors Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes and Andrew Wilkes recognized that these ancient (more…)
Witness the formation of the DMV’s Youth Poetry Slam Team as our 8 teen finalists all reach for the Grand Slam Championship Crown (more…)
A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by Angelique PalmerAngelique Palmer is a poetry slam doyen, a finalist in the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam and a member of The Beltway Poetry Slam Team in 2017. The Creative Writing graduate from Florida State University now calls northern Virginia home. She’s penned more (more…)
A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by Drew AndersonA science teacher turned teaching artist, poet turned parodist, and marathon runner turned motivational speaker, Drew Anderson is founder and co-host of Spit Dat (the longest-running open mic in DC) and co-creator of the critically-acclaimed stage production From Gumbo to Mumbo (nominated for the 2020 (more…)
BIOGRAPHY OF SHIRLEY CHISHOLM | A Busboys and Poets Books PresentationJoin us to learn about the life of black feminist Shirley Chisholm. Author Anastasia Curwood shakes up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an (more…)
A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by MeccamorphosisMecca Verdell is a Baltimore based poet and performer of Dewmore Baltimore. When she started her poetry career in 2016, Mecca won Brave New Voices, an international youth poetry slam. She’s also been a Radio show host for two Baltimore based radio stations, interviewing nationally and (more…)
A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by Jonathan B. Tucker (JBT)JBT is a writer, educator, performer, poet, curator, program coordinator, and DJ. Sharing his work at schools, theaters, and venues around the world, he has performed in Cape Town, Boston, London, New York City, Stockholm, Seattle, the Kennedy Center, and the South African (more…)
‘I want to live in a society where secret power is accountable to the law and to public opinion for its atrocities, where it is the war criminals who go to jail, not those who have the conscience and courage to expose them.’ It is 2008, and Stefania Maurizi, an investigative journalist with a growing (more…)
A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by Orville WalkerBorn in Takoma Park, MD, Orville Walker grew up in Jamaica; and now Landover, MD, where he currently resides. He has been writing poetry for several years but started performing his work in November 2009 at the 12th Street Lounge in Washington, D.C. Orville’s poems (more…)