Special Events

CityLit Festival Welcomes Isaacson, Poets Hirsch and Lux

Ninth Annual CityLit Festival
Saturday, April 14, 2012
10 am – 5 pm
Pratt Central Library
400 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Visit the LPR table and hear LPR presenters at…

2 pm – 2:50 pm
The Art of Living: African American Poetic Voices
Readings by Derrick Weston Brown (Wisdom Teeth) and Alan W. King (Drift). Introduced by Truth Thomas, Pushcart Nominated Poet.

11:30 am – 12:20 pm
Little Patuxent Review Presents
Readings by Susan Gabrielle, Clarinda Harriss, Kathleen Hellen, Jill-Ann Stolley, Michael Salcman, and Joseph Ross, winner of the Pratt Library’s poetry contest. Hosted by Laura Shovan, Editor, Little Patuxent Review.

See the complete schedule at the CityLit site.

Poetry Exchange

This weekend, we have three poets visiting from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. If you’re in the Baltimore-Washington area, you’ll have a chance to hear Richard Krawiec, Debra Kaufman and Stephanie Levin on two separate occasions:

• Our three visiting poets will be featured at a free reading with open mic at Wisdomwell. We’ll also have some snacks, wine and music. Friday, March 2, 2012, 6:30 pm until 9:30 pm. The reading begins at 7:00 pm, open mic at 8:00 pm. Wisdomwell is located at 8955 Guilford Road, Suite 240, Columbia, MD.
• Two Saturday workshops at The Writer’s Center: Crafting Images (register here) and Ripped from the Headlines: Writing Poems about Hot Topics (register here.)

Note: Richard Krawiec will also participate in the event listed below.

Social Justice, In Poetry and Prose

Sat, 3 Mar, 2012 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Click here to register.

Join poet Truth Thomas, guest editor for the Winter 2012 Social Justice issue of Little Patuxent Review, at The Writer’s Center as he brings the power of poetry and prose to bear on the movement toward a more equitable world. LPR contributors will read poems and participate, along with audience members, in a panel discussion led by Thomas on the various ways literature can facilitate understanding and change. Light refreshments will follow, providing opportunity for additional interaction.

Participants include: Truth Thomas (Presenter) and Poetry Readers/Panelists: Deb Kaufman, Patricia VanAmburg, Stephanie Levin, Tony Medina, Richard Krawiec, James Toupin, Dylan Bargteil, Kathleen Hellen and JoAnn Balingit.

Baltimore Book Festival

LPR Editor Laura Shovan; Truth Thomas, the guest editor for the Winter 2012 Social Justice issue; Linda Joy Burke, a Contributing Editor; and Review Committee member Danuta Hinc all participated in the 2011 Baltimore Book Festival.

Thomas moderated an LPR-sponsored panel, “Poets for Social Change.” Panelists included Derrick Weston Brown, Linda Joy Burke, Kathleen Hellen, Melanie Henderson, Tony Medina and Fernando Quijano III.

Here are four videos of the highlights:

The most pressing issues: Troy Davis execution (3:43)

Poetry & Politics (3:29)

The [rest of the] most pressing issues (12:16)

Panelists read their work (15:24)