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July 16, 2000: Poetry and Loss

Fall 2000: Century of the Millennium Reading Series

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1999 series at Bibelot bookstore in Canton

Poetry and Loss: a reading and workshop
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When: July 16, 2000, time TBA.

Where: WordHouse Salon at Minas, 733 S. Ann St., in Baltimore's Fells Point. Phone: 410-732-4258

Who: All are invited to attend. Moderated by Rosemary Klein, editor-in-chief of Maryland Poetry Review, the reading will feature MiMi Zannino, author of "Keeping Memories Alive," Anne Barney, author of "Stolen Joy," and Elisabeth Stevens, author of "Household Words: Art & Poetry." Moderator and readers are not only great poets but also are skilled in working with people to handle grief.

2000:

Century of the Millennium
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1999:

new Year
new Maryland Poetry Review
new Bookstore
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Schedule below
On the fourth Thursday of every month at 7:00 p.m., Maryland Poetry Review sponsors the New Issue/New Voices Series at BIBELOT CANTON. (Address and phone number below.)

Please join us the following 4th Thursdays:

February 25 with featured readers

Bill Jones / / Elizabeth Poliner / / Martin Galvin

Bill Jones' manuscript Swimming at Night, nominated by The Maryland State Poetry & Literary Society, won the 1992 ArtScape Literary Arts Award for Poetry.

Elizabeth Poliner is a recipient of an Individual Artist's Grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts. Poliner teaches at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and has had recent work in The Seneca Review, The Antietam Review, The Baltimore Review, and Whole Notes.

Martin Galvin , a teacher in the Washington, DC area for thirty years, has had poems recently in Poetry, The Best American Poetry 1997, Texas Review, Potomac Review, The Baltimore Review, Wordwrigths, Poet Lore, The Atlantic, and The New Republic. Wild Card was selected by Howard Nemerov for the Washington Poetry Committee Prize in 1989.

March 25 with featured readers

Chester Wickwire / / Hugh Burgess / / Gary Blackenburg
Chester Wickwire at eighty-four is Chaplain Emeritus of The Johns Hopkins University. Wickwire, despite lengthy hospitalizations for polio, received degrees from Union College and Yale Divinity School. He is Chair of the Maryland Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, and a member of the Governor's Commission for Migratory and Seasonal Farm Labor and of the Board of Ecumenical Programs In Central America. Wickwire's poems have appeared in journals such as The Baltimore Review, Slant, The Maverick Press, The Comstock Review, and Fox Cry Review. Long Peak, his first collection of poems, has just been published by Brick House Books, Inc./ Chestnut Hills Press.

Hugh Burgess is an assistant editor of Maryland Poetry Review. Dwell Within These Distances, a book-length collection of his poems, was published in the New Poets Series. Penny's Hill, a chapbook, was issued from Lite Circle Press in 1998.

Gary Blackenburg, a former editor of Maryland Poetry Review, is founding editor of Electric Press. Among his many journal credits are Bogg, Poetry Motel, Puerto del Sol, The English Journal, Shattered Wig Review, and Wormwood Review. His most recent book is The Heartland (Dolphin-Moon Press, 1996).

April 22 with featured readers

Sam Schmidt / / Jody Nusholtz / / Rawley Martin Grau
Sam Schmidt, co founder and editor of WordHouse, a monthly poetry calendar and literary review for the Baltimore area, hosts its poetry reading series at Minas Gallery in Fels Point. Recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council's 1997 Individual Artist Award, he has recent work in Dancing Shadow Review, The Pearl, The City Paper and The Moon.

Jody Nusholt received an MFA from Emerson College and is currently an assistant professor at Carroll Community College in Maryland. Nusholtz's poems have appeared in Amelia and Sojourner. Nusholtz recently served as a preliminary judge for Maryland Poetry Review's 1998 chapbook contest.

Rawley Martin Grau is the editor of the Baltimore Alternative and also an editor for Link: A Critical Journal on the Arts in Baltimore and the World. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Toronto and The Pearl.

May 27 with featured readers

Chezia Thompson-Cager / / Matt Horner / / Amani Na Baraka
Chezia Thompson-Cager received a 1999 Individual Artist Award for her poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council. Her most recent book is The Presence of Things Unseen: Giant Talk. Her chapbook Power Objects was chosen by Josephine Jacobsen as the winner of the 1996 Artscape Literary Arts Poetry Award, and her work has recently appeared in the anthologies Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings and Catch The Fire as well as the special issue "Blacks in Cyberspace and Technology" of Black Arts Quarterly. Ms Thomson-Cager is a contributing editor for Maryland Poetry Review and is on the staff of The Baltimore Review.

Matt Horner, a Baltimore native, received his MFA from the Naropa Institute, where he was the 1996 Ted Berrigan Scholarship winner for poetry. His work has appeared in, among others, Atom Mind, Dropforge, Twisted Nipples, Exquisite Corpse, Dancing Shadow Review, City Paper, The Pearl and Articulate and heard on the CD Word Up Baltimore! Horner edits Pasta Poetics, a poetry and recipes anthology and, this year its fourth edition, sold to benefit local hunger relief. Tropos Press nominated his work for the 1998 ArtScape Literary Art Award in poetry.

Amani Na Baraka (Reggie Timpson) works as a freelance writer, and photographer with The Baltimore Times Newspaper. His work has appeared in such diverse venues as YSB Magazine, Baltimore Business Journal, Minority Business Enterprise, Image Connections, Punchtown Fishwrap, and the Washington Afro-American. Co-founder and editor of The Black Poet Magazine, as an actor, he's appeared in numerous plays as well as in Homicide: Life On The Streets and as a performance poet he garnered first place in the first annual poetry slam hosted in 1997 at Baltimore's ArtScape Festival.

June 24 with featured readers

David Beaudouin / / Norma Chapman
David Beaudouin is the founding editor of Tropos Press as well as of The Pearl, Baltimore's oldest independent literary magazine. His most recent book of poems is Human Nature, a collaboration with the photographer Stephen Spartana.
Norma Chapman has published in The Dogwood Tree and Xtreme. In 1997 Maryland's Frederick Arts Council awarded her first prizes in its poetry and fiction contests.

July 22 with featured readers

Kathleen Shemer / / Agnes Osinski / / Kathleen O'Toole
Kathleen Shemer, an attorney and executive director of the Women's Law Center of Maryland, has work forthcoming in The New Zoo Poetry Review.
Agnes Osinski, the 1998 Braly Award for Poetry winner at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has published in Dancing Shadow Review and Life. MPR's 1st Barbara T. Ewing Poetry Contest recognized Osinski's work with a honorable mention.
Kathleen O'Toole graduated with a master's from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. O'Toole, who's worked as a lead organizer for Baltimorean's United in Leadership Development, teaches at the Maryland Institute, College of Art and has had poems in Poetry, Asphodel, Brussels Sprouts, and Forays.

August 26 with featured readers

Virginia Crawford / / Jennifer Neely / / Steven C. Cunningham
Virginia Crawford works as a Poet-in-the-Schools, a program sponsored by the Maryland State Arts Council. She is co-founder of WordHouse and co-editor of Poetry Baltimore: Poems about a City. Her work has appeared in Black Moon, The Potomac Review, The Baltimore Review, The City Paper, and Gargoyle.
Jennifer Neely teaches at Maryland's Garrett Community College and has had recent work in Bohemian Bridge and American Writing: A Magazine.
Steven C. Cunningham, a native of Colorado, is entering his third year of medical school at George Washington University. In 1998, he was a winner in the poetry contest sponsored by The New Physician. His work has also appeared in several area anthologies, and in 1997 his manuscript Looking to See was awarded third place by Kathleen Corcoran, judge of the Maryland Poetry Review's second annual chapbook contest. Cunningham is a contributing editor for Maryland Poetry Review and webmaster of its website.

September 23 with featured readers

Geraldine Connolly / / Georgia Krieger / / Judith McCombs
Geraldine Connolly is the author of the poetry collections The Red Room and Food for the Winter, and Province of Fire. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Chelsea, The Gettysburg Review, and The Georgia Review. She has been awarded two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and also a Cafritz Fellowship. She teaches writing, and serves as executive editor of the literary quarterly Poet Lore.
Georgia Krieger winner of the Antietam Review's 1998 poetry prize, has had three poems in Nightsun, Poet Lore, Blue Violin, Outerbridge and Sow's Ear Poetry Review.
Judith McCombs has had work published recently in The Devil's Millhopper, Feminist Studies, Minimus, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, River Styx, Sisters of the Earth and Poetry Northwest. Her work has also appeared in, among others, Calyx, Poetry, Prism, and in Nimrod, where it received a Neruda Award. McCombs has two published poetry collections, Against Nature: Wilderness Poems (Dustbooks) and Territories: Here and Elsewhere (Mayapple Press).

October 28 with featured readers

Barbara Westwood Diehl / / W. H. Stevens / / Karen Janowsky
Barbara Westwood Diehl, editor of the Baltimore Review, has work in publications such as Rosebud, Thema, The Crescent Review, Fodderwing, and Negative Capability.
W. H. Stevens, currently co-presidnet of Maryland's Carroll Branch of the National League of American Pen Women, is book review editor for Lite. Her work has appeared in The Baltimore Sun, The Maryland Poetry Review, Penwoman Magazine, and The Baltimore Review.
Karen Janowsky teaches at Maryland's Charles County Community College. A 1994 Florida State MA in Creative Writing graduate, Janowsky has recently published a chapbook The Girl Who Ate Blue and poems in The Potomac Review and Fathoms.

An open reading follows the featured reading. If you're a writer, bring and share your work. Bibelot Canton (410-276-9700) is located in the historical American Can Company, at 2400 Boston Street, Baltimore, Maryland.