Open Mic following the Featured Readers — feel free to share one poem, one page.
Free and you’re welcome to just walk in but if you get tickets on Eventbrite, it would help us know how many people will attend https://www.eventbrite.com/e/diversecasey-poetry-nights-tickets-321426253577
Casey Community Center, 1 mile north of Shady Grove Metro on 355
810 S Frederick Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20877
Sarah Katz is the author of Country of Glass (Gallaudet University Press, May 2022). She holds an MFA in creative writing from American University. Her poems appear in Bear Review, District Lit, Hole in the Head Review, Redivider, RHINO, Right Hand Pointing, Rogue Agent, the So to Speak blog, The Shallow Ends, and Wordgathering, among others. Her essays and articles have appeared in The Atlantic, Business Insider, The Guardian, OZY, The Nation, The New York Times, The Rumpus, Scientific American, Slate, The Washington Post, and other publications. Sarah is Poetry Editor of The Deaf Poets Society, an online journal that features work by writers and artists with disabilities.
Marianne Szlyk lives in Rockville, MD and is a professor at Montgomery College. Her poems have also appeared in of/with, Bourgeon, Mad Swirl, Spectrum, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Sligo Journal, Verse-Virtual, Mike Maggio’s 30-for-30, Sheila-na-gig, One Art, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and two of Pure Slush’s anthologies (25 Miles from Here and Home). Her most recent chapbook is Why We Never Visited the Elms. It is available on Amazon with her other books (I Dream of Empathy, On the Other Side of the Window, and Poetry en Plein Air). She reads now and again on Zoom.
DiVerse Gaithersburg 