Hot L Poets Series, ft. Chris Mason & Terence Winch

Sunday June 14, 2026 at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at The Ivy Bookshop (Baltimore) with poets Chris Mason and Terence Winch! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less).

Now in our 8th year, the reading series is sponsored by Smartish Pace and Baltimore Poets Theatre. Hosts: Clare Banks, David Yezzi and Stephen Reichert.

Copies of Chris Mason's Of Rare Earths will be available at the event!

by Terence Winch!

Chris Mason is a member of two bands, Old Songs, who translate Archaic Greek poetry and put it to music, and The Tinklers, who recorded three LP’s for Shimmy-Disc in the 80’s and 90’s. Poetry books include: ¬Poems of a Doggy (pod, 1977), Hum Who Hiccup (Narrowhouse, 2011), Something Something Morning (Blabbermouth, 2020), and Of Rare Earths (Uncollected Press, 2024). He lives in Baltimore with his wife, Ann, and 3 chickens: Mars, Our Lady, and Thorleif.

The most recent of Terence Winch’s ten books of poems are It Is As If Desire (Hanging Loose Press, 2024) and That Ship Has Sailed (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023). He is also the author of two story collections and a novel. Winner of an American Book Award and the Columbia Book Award, along with an NEA poetry fellowship and the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing, Winch has been published by Smartish Pace and had his work featured in more than fifty anthologies. Also a musician and songwriter, Terence Winch co-founded Celtic Thunder, the traditional Irish music group, and composed their best-known song, “When New York Was Irish.”

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