November Wilde Readings
Schedule
Tue Nov 12 2024 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Queen Takes Book 6955 Oakland Mills Rd. Suite E - Columbia MD | Columbia, MD
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We are delighted to welcome poet and writer Ona Gritz and poet Daniel Simpson to our November Wilde Readings event. We've moved to a wonderful new Columbia MD venue, Queen Takes Book in the Snowden Center while the Columbia Arts Center undergoes renovations. Host Laura ShovanAbout our guests:
Ona Gritz
Ona Gritz’s new memoir, Everywhere I Look, won the Readers’ Choice Gold Award and is an Independent Book Review 2024 Must-Read. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Ploughshares, Brevity, and elsewhere. She’s the author of two 2024 YA verse novels, The Space You Left Behind,
featured in The Children’s Book Council’s Hot Off the Press roundup of anticipated best sellers, and Take a Sad Song.
Dan Simpson
Daniel Simpson’s latest book, Inside the Invisible, won the inaugural Propel Poetry Prize and was nominated for the American Academy of Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His work has been anthologized in About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times, Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest, and Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, and has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, and many other journals.
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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Where is it happening?
Queen Takes Book 6955 Oakland Mills Rd. Suite E - Columbia MD, 6955 Oakland Mills Rd, Columbia, MD 21045-5849, United States,Columbia, MarylandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
