The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer is fifty years’ worth of knowledge. Written by Poets & Writers Magazine editors Kevin Larimer and Mary Gannon, the authoritative guide answers every imaginable question about craft and career. It also highlights the significance of writing today, and the power of words to change policies, opinions, and lives. To celebrate the Complete Guide’s release, Larimer and Gannon will lead a discussion on writing as an act of generative good.

One of the year’s liveliest events, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty, Lunch Poems volunteers, and representatives from student publications.

All Lunch Poems readings are from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month. Admission is free. 

As a precautionary measure in light of COVID-19, this event has been postponed until May 2021. We hope to welcome you to the Gallery soon and thank you for your support.

This reading highlights a distinguished poet chosen by the Folger Poetry Board. Billy Collins will read from his work as well as those he cites as influences. This reading will be held at The National Gallery of Art.

GBF ANNOUNCEMENT:

Friends & supporters, circumstances have reached the point where we have to change gears on our beloved Gaithersburg Book Festival.

We will not be coming together – at least face to face – on May 16th for GBF.

HOWEVER, having spent the last year putting together a *fantastic* lineup of authors, books, workshops, and other special programming, we are going to be looking at creative ways to deliver some of that programming to you and connect you with some of those authors, virtually, where we can.

The Brave Testimony series celebrates the poetry of Africa and the African diaspora. Brave Testimony readers have include Chris Abani, Herman Beavers, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Brenda Marie Osbey, and others.

Acclaimed poet Naomi Shihab Nye will present the 23rd annual Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading at 5 p.m. on April 19, 2020, in the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Auditorium at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each hour-long event features readings by two Chicagoland writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. April's Open Door reading series features Elizabeth Metzger Sampson and Timothy David Rey, and mai c. doan and her student.

Join us for a reading and celebration of the diverse voices, rich experiences, and powerful words of Chicago seniors. A wide variety of poets share poems written for Forms & Features, a long-running poetry workshop that has regular sessions at two Chicago Senior Centers: Renaissance Court and North Center.

WYPR 88.1FM presents an evening with David Sedaris!

David Sedaris, author of the previous bestsellers 'Naked,' 'Me Talk Pretty One Day,' 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim,' and regular National Public Radio contributor will be appearing for one night only at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on Saturday, April 11 at 8pm, following the release of his newest book & New York Times #1 Best Seller, 'Calypso.'