Forget Why Poetry Series - Sylvia Jones & Sommer Browning

Schedule

Sat, 24 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm

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Location

6950 Maple St NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20012 | Takoma Park, MD

Saturday January 24 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Sylvia Jones lives in Baltimore, MD, and teaches creative writing at George Washington University. She is poetry editor for Black Lawrence Press—and senior reader for the journal, Ploughshares. Her debut collection —Television Fathers (Meekling Press, 2024) was published last fall. It’s follow-up, Dope Callisthenics—is forthcoming from Relegation Books. Her writing appears in DIAGRAM, Smartish Pace, Shenandoah, R&R Journal, Blackbird, the American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She earned her M.F.A. from American University in Washington D.C.
Sommer Browning is a poet and writer, mostly. Her latest book is Good Actors (Birds, LLC; 2022). She’s the author of two other collections of poetry, Backup Singers and Either Way I’m Celebrating, as well as the artist book, The Circle Book (Cuneiform Press), the joke book, You’re On My Period (Counterpath), and others. Her poetry, art writing, and visual art have appeared in Hyperallergic, Bomb, Artforum, The American Poetry Review, The Comics Journal, and elsewhere. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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