The Inner Loop October Reading

Schedule

Tue Oct 21 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Shaw's Tavern | Washington, DC

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Join us at Shaw's Tavern featuring Lisa Sewell alongside 9 local writers in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry!
About this Event

Mark your calendar, grab your friends, and head to Shaw's Tavern on October 21st at 7:00 pm for our reading featuring Lisa Sewell reading alongside nine local writers in fiction, nonficiton, and poetry!


Whether you're a bookworm, an inspiring writer, or just enjoy listening to stories, The Inner Loop readings have something for everyone. Our mission is to create an inclusive writing community in DC, so we encourage you to grab some food, a drink, and meet other literature lovers. We can't wait to see you there!


Learn more about our featured reader:

Lisa Sewell was raised in California and educated at UC Berkeley, New York University and Tufts University. She is the author of The Way Out, Name Withheld, Long Corridor, which received the 2009 Keystone Chapbook award, Impossible Object, which won the 10th Gate Prize, Birds of North America, a collaboration with artist Susan Hagen and poet Nathalie Anderson and Flood Plain. She is also co-editor of several collections of essays on contemporary American poetry and poetics, including American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics with Claudia Rankine, and American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language with Kazim Ali. She has received grants and awards from the Leeway Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, and The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown and held residencies at The Arctic Circle, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, The Tyrone Guthrie Center, and The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Her poems have been widely published in journals such as The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Harvard Review, Posit and has been featured on The Slowdown and the Academy of American Poets’ “Poem-a-Day.” She teaches at Villanova University and splits her time between Philadelphia and White Salmon, WA.


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Shaw's Tavern, 520 Florida Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States

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