Spring (Almost) Events
Bird in Hand, AWP, Bay to Ocean Conference, SPECIAL International Palisades Event and Frostburg U… The next several weeks will be busy with literary events! Hold on to your hats!
Rescheduled for: Saturday, March 28th. The Voice of Protest. Join us, other poets and musicians, as we call for democracy and dignity for all. 4PM, Bird in Hand. Charles Street, Baltimore. Come in after your neighborhood No Kings rally, and meet us down at Penn Station for a No Kings Dance Party @6pm!
March 4-7, AWP Conference at the Baltimore Convention Center! Find Sam at his publisher’s table, Galileo Press, and I will be at mine, Apprentice House Press (Sat. 9-11AM & 3-5PM). We can’t wait to see the greater Baltimore Poetry Family and so many others from farther afield!
March 14, Bay to Ocean Conference on the Eastern Shore, Chesapeake College, Wye Mills, MD. For our 3rd year, Sam and I will host the Open Mic at the After Party! Join us for a chance to share your work, enjoy conversation, snacks and an all-round good time!
March 15, 1-3pm SPECIAL International Event Added Poetry ats the Palisades Plus Jennifer Sutherland’s new book, House of Myth and Necessity, 212 Washington Ave., Towson, MD.
Lilián Pallares and Charles Olsen @lilianycharles are visiting us from Madrid, Spain, where they have been making award-winning collaborative poetry films with diverse communities. They arrive here from Colorado College where they were invited to give the workshop ‘Migration, Performance and Videopoetry’, and an exhibition of their films in Manitou Art Center. They received the Our Little Roses Poetry Fellowship in 2022 and 2023, leading creative poetry workshops with the girls of Our Little Roses orphanage in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. In 2017 they received the XIV and XIII distinctions ‘Poetas de Otros Mundos’ from the Fondo Poético Internacional in 2017 for the high quality of their poetic oeuvres. See antenablue.com
Lilián @lilian.pallares is author of Ciudad Sonámbula (available in digital format as Sleepwalking City) and the poetry collections Voces Mudas (2011), Pájaro, vértigo (Huerga y Fierro, 2014) and Bestial (Olifante, 2019). She explores her Afro-Colombian roots in her poetry and on stage with her Afrolyrics Theatre Company. lilianpallares.com
Charles @colsenart is author of Sr Citizen (Amargord, 2011), Antípodas (Huerga y Fierro, 2016) and La rebeldía del sol (Olifante, 2022) – result of the III Antonio Machado Poetry Residency of Segovia and Soria he received in 2018. He initiated the Palabras Prestadas poetry project in Spain in 2011, and has run the Given Words competition for Aotearoa New Zealand’s National Poetry Day since 2016. See his artwork and writing on charlesolsen.es
Jennifer Sutherland, co-host of Poetry at the Palisades, is celebrating her second poetry collection, House of Myth and Necessity. Her new poems move through the houses of memory, domestic violence, divorce, cross examinations, the Fibonacci Sequence, and many more, always returning to–and transforming–the figure of Alcestis from Greek myth, traditional and problematic image of the devoted wife, who gives herself to Death when he comes to take away her husband. Sutherland, poet and attorney, draws us into the retelling of women’s difficult moral choices, in myth and contemporary life, in this witty and wide-ranging book. For more, go to jenniferasutherland.com.
Which brings us into (the cruelest) and best month, April, National Poetry Month.
We’ll be visiting Jennifer A. Browne at Frostburg University’s Coffee with Writers, Center for Literary Arts, Sat., April 4th.
We look forward to seeing you at these events around our beautiful state!
Ginny (and Sam)
Virginia Crawford 