The Hot L Poets Series: Featuring Bonnie Naradzay and Jane Satterfield

Sunday November 8, 2026 at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at Bird in Hand (Baltimore) with poets Bonnie Naradzay & Jane Satterfield! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less).
Now in our eighth year, the reading series is the work of Smartish Pace and Baltimore Poets Theatre. Hosts: Clare Banks, David Yezzi, and Stephen Reichert.
Bonnie Naradzay leads regular poetry sessions at Street Sense and at a retirement community, all in Washington, DC. In 2010 she was awarded the University of New Orleans Poetry Prize – a month’s stay in the South Tyrol castle of Ezra Pound’s daughter Mary. Bonnie’s poetry has been published in AGNI, Dappled Things, Birmingham Poetry Review, Georgia Review, Cumberland River Review, New Letters, RHINO, and other journals. In graduate school she was a student in Robert Lowell’s course, “The King James Bible as English Literature.” She graduated from the St John’s College (Annapolis) Graduate Institute in 2017, and her book of poems, Invited to the Feast, was published by Slant Books in October 2025; three of the poems were nominated for Pushcart prizes.
Jane Satterfield’s new book, Luminous Crown, was selected by Oliver de la Paz for the Word Works Tenth Gate Prize. Recent books include The Badass Brontës (Diode Editions Book Prize) and Apocalypse Mix (Autumn House Poetry Prize). She's received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Sewanee Writers Conference, while individual poems have won Bellingham Review’s 49th Parallel Poetry Prize and awards from the Ledbury Festival and Mslexia magazine (both U.K.-based). Satterfield's poems and lyric essays have appeared in About Place, DIAGRAM, Ecotone, Orion, Shenandoah, Terrain.org and elsewhere, as well as in the collections Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity U. Press), Greening the Earth: A Global Poetry Anthology (Vintage), and Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically (NYU Press). She is a professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland.