Open Mic following the Featured Readers — feel free to share one poem, one page.
At Casey Community Center, 810 S Frederick Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20877
stevenallenmay is/has been a poet, writer, performance artist, events coordinator, series curator and host, filmmaker, collage maker, and experimenter with technology & language. In 2024, Beothuk Books brought out his dystopian collection, written in the stubble of 2 torn out pages. He is also the author of Plastic Sunrise (2003) as well as a handful of chapbooks.
Sarah DeCorla-Souza is the author of the poetry collection Ordinary Time (Plan B Press, 2022). Her poetry has appeared in Mid Atlantic Review, Pensive, Innisfree, JMWW, and other journals. She lives in Alexandria, VA with her husband and four children, where she works as a graphic and UX designer. She is also the Art Director and an Associate Editor for the literary magazine Dappled Things.
Guest Host:
Kevin Farragher first found poetic inspiration in studying the works of the British Romantics, Victorians, and Moderns. Since then, his interests and reading have extended to other traditions and alternative voices. His career in Asset Management encouraged further exploration of poetry’s connections with pattern recognition such as it exists in disciplines like technology, mathematics, and finance. Kevin now lives in Montgomery County, Maryland with his true love, who is consanguine with Franz Kafka. He therefore rejoices daily for reasons that start with not waking up as a bed bug in someone else’s fable.
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