Words Out Loud: A Spoken Word Series
Friday, April 5, 2019, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Presenter: Words Out Loud Recommended Ages: All ages welcome Location: Room 302, North Arcade Building Admission: Free Contact Phone: 240-899-6514
The Glen Echo Park Partnership is pleased to host Words Out Loud, a monthly spoken word series!
Meetings typically take place the first Friday of each month and feature readings by accomplished authors, followed by literary trivia and an open mic session.
Room 302 is in the North Arcade building. Enter to the right of the neon POPCORN sign across from the Carousel and take the stairs or elevator to the third floor.
Reuben Jackson is an archivist with the University of the District of Columbia's Felix E. Grant Jazz
Archives. From 2013 until 2018, he was host of Friday Night Jazz on Vermont Public Radio and has been an archivist and creator with the Smithsonian Institution's Duke Ellington Collection. His poems have been published in over 40 anthologies. Scattered Clouds, a collection of previously published and new poems will be published in October by Alan Squire Press. His music reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, Jazz Times, Downbeat, Jazziz, the Jazz Journalists Association website, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. He has taught poetry at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland and to high school students in Burlington, Vermont.
Gary Hotham has been crafting English language haiku for over 50 years. Echoing T.S. Eliot, he
finds writing haiku to be a way to “devour any kind of experience” and fulfill the poet’s “task of
trying to find the verbal equivalents for states of mind and feeling.” He first discovered the
genre in a high school English class and has yet to recover from the challenge. He grew up in
northern Maine, currently resides in Maryland and has traveled and lived in Japan, Germany,
England, and Texas. His work has appeared in journals, chapbooks and anthologies. His major
collections of haiku: Breath Marks: Haiku to Read in the Dark (1999), Spilled Milk: Haiku
Destinies (2010), and Stone’s Throw: Promises of Mere Words (2016).
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