https://marylandwriters.starchapter.com/meetinginfo.php?id=1614&ts=1768596454
On the first Friday of each month, MWA hosts a featured reader with an open mic to follow. All writers--poets, playwrights, novelists, memoirists, songwriters, etc. are invited to spend time sharing their work. Our purpose is to create a supportive community for all those who engage in the lively and sometimes lonely sport of putting thought and feeling to page. Each open mic reader may read three poems or for up to five minutes. Email firstfridays@marylandwriters.org to be add to the open mic list. If you have a preference, please specify if you'd like to read toward the beginning, middle, or end. We do our best to accommodate. You may also let the host know during the event. Click here for more details.
Hillary Gonzalez (they/she) is a Baltimore based queer, disabled, and AuDHD poet, whose work explores themes of eco-poetry climate justice, identity, and healing. They are the authors of Seasons, and the eco-poetry collections, Wild Unfelt World (2026 Gnashing Teeth Publishing), and Where the Osprey Nest (Palewell Press 2026). Their poems have been published by South Broadway Press, Canid Press, and in anthologies by Bi+ Book Gang, Yellow Arrow Publishing, Loblolly Press’ anthology: Understory, a fundraising anthology for the victims of Hurricane Helene, The Body Archive by Cosmic Daffodil Journal, and In Praise of Despair, an anthology for disabled artists and writers by Beyond the Veil Press.
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