Drop a Poem In Water: Contemplative Poetry
Drop a Poem in Water: Contemplative Poetry with Autumn Van Ord and Robin Williams
Sunday, March 24, 1:00-4:00
Fee: $20 includes materials
Drop a Poem in Water: Contemplative Poetry with Autumn Van Ord and Robin Williams
Sunday, March 24, 1:00-4:00
Fee: $20 includes materials
Evan Thomas talks about his book, First: Samdra Day O'Connor, An American Life
Join Adelaide Books authors as they share from their work and talk about the publishing process, featuring Matthew Nino Azcuy and Heather Rounds.
Celebrate the end of winter with an hour of gorgeous songs about love, nature, and the joy that comes with spring. Works by Rossini, Debussy, Grieg, Strauss, Beach, Rachmaninoff, and more will be performed by sopranos Claire Galloway and Ellie Yeonjung Kim, tenor Min Jin, baritone Rob McGinness, and pianist Joseph Satava. A wine reception with the artists will follow the performance. Seating is not reserved and tickets will also be available at the door.
Bridgett Davis talks about her book, The World According to Fannie Davis
Katrina McDonald talks about her book, Marriage in Black: The Pursuit of Married Life Among American-born and Immigrant Blacks.
This annual event features a reading by American poet Jan Beatty. Beatty, director of the Master of Fine Arts program at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, won the 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her books include “Jackknife: New and Selected Poems,” “The Switching/Yard,” “Red Sugar,” “Boneshaker,” and “Mad River.”
Considered by many to be the greatest play ever written, Hamlet is everything Shakespeare wrote distilled to a single play. Funny, thrilling, and heartbreaking, Hamlet is a tour de force. It has represented many things to many people, and stands as shorthand for “Theatre.” Strip away the pretense, though, and what’s left is still a masterpiece. We present it in original pronunciation, as audiences first heard it.
Two young Baltimoreans, Hester Dorsey Richardson and Louise Courtauld Osburne Haughton, founded The Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore in 1890 to "encourage exact and noble thinking among our women." Over the next 50 years, the Club met on a weekly basis to discuss the literature they read—and wrote—with the goal of cultivating both their minds and their literary reputations.
Clarinda Harriss teaches, Experiments in Non-Traditional and Non-European Forms
Forms include the pantoum (Malaysian), the ghazal (Indian), and the Golden Shovel (invented by poet Terrance Hayes); write in one of the forms, using a theme of your choosing.