Tag: Poetry

This year’s virtual Literary Hill BookFest featured a number of treats for poetry lovers: video readings by E. Ethelbert Miller, Teri Ellen Cross Davis,...

You've got the chance to hear "the most popular poet in America" read in your own home. On Monday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m., the...

It's just like having famous authors in your living room (or office! or kitchen! --bring them to your backyard)! The Literary Hill BookFest, an annual...

The winners are in! In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, the Ward 6 Dems sponsored Words Matter, a poetry contest open to all residents...

Keith David Parsons says he is “a native of West Virginia, USA, living in Washington, DC, and less conflicted about it than you might think.” He...

In something of a departure this month, we’re reaching back in time to highlight a poet featured in Kim Roberts’s new anthology, “By Broad...

Tori Collins is a native Chicagoan who lives and works in DC. Currently an unpublished writer, she hopes to self-publish her work in the...

I can’t reconcile what we are with what we are. We can love with incredible passion and hate with searing intensity. We idolize and brutalize our children and sacrifice...

J.D. Smith is a District writer who has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative...

We don't want to be human anymore! Not the animal part of human, anyway. Three and a half billion years of evolving into what we don't want...