Mai-Anh Nguyen & Leona Sevick

Name: Mai-Anh Nguyen & Leona Sevick
Start: 2025-06-10T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-10T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Queen Takes Book

Schedule

Tue Jun 10 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Queen Takes Book | Columbia, MD

We are delighted to welcome you to last reading of the season featuring: Howard County Youth Poet Laureate and poet
Leona Sevick, and you. The host for the evening is Ann Bracken.
About our Guests:
Howard County Youth Poet Laureate Mai-Anh Nguyen
Mai-Anh Nguyen is currently a junior at Oakland Mills High School, where she serves as the president of National Art Honor Society and participates in orchestra, Youth Climate Institute, and Spanish National Honor Society. In her free time, she enjoys playing tennis, drawing, and writing.
Leona Sevick
Leona Sevick’s work appears in Orion, Birmingham Poetry Review, Blackbird, The Southern Review, and The Sun. Leona serves on the advisory board of the Furious Flower Black Poetry Center and is provost and professor of English at Bridgewater College in Virginia, where she teaches Asian American literature. She is the 2017 Press 53 Poetry Award Winner for her first full-length book of poems, Lion Brothers. Her second collection of poems, The Bamboo Wife, is published by Trio House Press.
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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