MLAW 2025:  Poetry, Music, & Talk

MLAW 2025: Poetry, Music, & Talk

Date and Time

Apr 9, 2025 7:00 pm

Location

Hyattsville

5331 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, Maryland, 20781

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University of Maryland – College Park. MLAW Program & BUSBOYS & POETS Presents

POETRY Open MIC and COMMUNITY DISCUSSION

“HERE WE STAND: PUSHING BACK AGAINST AUTHORITARIANISM in AMERICA”

On Wednesday, APRIL 9, 2025 - 7:00 – 9:00 PM, the University of Maryland’s MLAW Program’s LAW, ART, and ACTIVISM SERIES returns to Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville, Maryland with a program of music, poetry, and community discussion.

The program will include a Q&A with -

- Discussion on the illegal and unconstitutional efforts of the Trump Administration

- Open Mic Poetry, hosted by Brian G. Gilmore, Poet and MLAW Program Senior Lecturer

- Music from bassist, Emory Diggs;

- Remarks from Dr. Robert Koulish, Director, MLAW Program – University of Maryland

Poets bring your poems; we’ve got the microphone!

UMD students can register in advance for travel to and from event from campus.

Contact: Brian Gilmore – bgilmore@umd.edu if you are a poet and would like to read your work. You can also sign up at the event.

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