Derrick Weston Brown and Carla Du Pree

Name: Derrick Weston Brown and Carla Du Pree
Start: 2025-05-13T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-13T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Queen Takes Book

Schedule

Tue May 13 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Queen Takes Book | Columbia, MD

We are delighted to welcome poet Derrick Westin Brown, poet and writer Carla Du Pree, and you to our May edition of Wilde Readings. The host for the evening is Linda Joy Burke.
About our Guests:
Derrick Weston Brown
Derrick Weston Brown holds an MFA in creative writing, from American University. He has studied poetry under Dr. Tony Medina at Howard University and Cornelius Eady at American University. He is a graduate of the Cave Canem and VONA Voices summer workshops. His work has appeared in such literary journals as The Little Patuxent Review, Colorlines, The This Mag, and Vinyl online. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012. He worked as a bookseller and book buyer for a bookstore which is operated by the nonprofit Teaching for Change. He was the founder of The Nine on the Ninth, a critically acclaimed monthly poetry series that ran from 2005-2015 at the 14th & V street location of Busboys and Poets. He was the 2012-2013 Writer-In-Residence of the Howard County Poetry Literary Society, of Maryland. He is also a participating DC area author for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s Writers-in-Schools program.
Carla Du Pree
Carla Du Pree is a fiction writer, a state and national arts advocate, a literary consultant, and the executive director of the literary nonprofit, CityLit Project which holds an annual award-winning CityLit Festival, a CityLit Studio, and CityLit Stage, in Baltimore. She co-founded Scribente Maternum, (a fancy way of saying Writing Mamas) which holds an annual, transformative Write Like A Mother Retreat. Her fiction appears in two anthologies, and literary journals, Callaloo, The Pierian Literary Journal, and the Ilanot Review, among others, and has been a finalist in several competitions. She is the recipient of fiction fellowships from Hedgebrook, Baldwin for the Arts, the Peter Bullough Foundation, Rhode Island Writers Colony for Writers of Color (Jason Reynolds), and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2x), for her fiction. She is a Rubys Artist Awardee, a Maryland State Arts Council grantee, and was awarded the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies inaugural Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Individual Award and the Maryland State Department of Education’s Arts Leader for April 2020. She serves on executive committees of several local, state, and national boards serving the arts. She speaks at national conferences and major events, all related to the literary arts to magnify diversity and inclusion work in meaningful ways. She holds a Master's from Johns Hopkins University's Writing Seminars, has three adult children, one grandson, and a husband she’s been with for 46 years.
Please spread the word - bring your friends, family, and students. All are welcome. We encourage you to participate in the open mic. Please prepare no more than five minutes of performance time/two poems. Sign up for the open mic in advance by filling out this online form: https://www.queentakesbook.com/wildereadings.
Light refreshments will be served. Books by both featured authors and open mic readers will be available for sale.
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