Tag: Poetry

Rekha Mehra has lived in the Capitol Hill neighborhood since 1986 with an interlude of five years when she worked for the Ford Foundation...

Tori Collins has long been inspired by the power of words—she cites James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and E. Ethelbert Miller...

Capitol Hill resident Sarah Dawn Petrin is a humanitarian, poet and writer who is the author of “Bring Rain: Helping Humanity in Crisis,” in...

Chris Haley has published two previous books of poetry ‒ “Obsessions” and “Until the Right One Comes Along” ‒ and has just issued a...

This year’s Children’s Corner at the Literary Hill BookFest promises to be the best yet! Capitol Hill schoolteacher Nicole Siegel is coordinating a day of...

Let's take this offline! Tired of having to see your favorite writers via Zoom? Can’t bear another online book talk? Come join us at the...

Capitol Hill poet Jean Nordhaus is the author of several highly regarded poetry collections, including “A Bracelet of Lies” (1987), “The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn” (2002), “Innocence” (2006),...

Joe Bisicchia’s works have appeared in numerous publications, with more than 170 individual poems published, and he received an Honorable Mention for the Fernando...

On Tuesday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. the Folger Shakespeare Library will get together with the legendary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and...

Getting to the Point An early 17th-century explorer described it as “a site where heaven and earth converged to frame a place perfectly designed for...