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
Morenike O. Rossman writes poetry, speculative fiction, and children’s skits. Based here in Gaithersburg, she works for MCPS as an AV technician and has the pleasure of being behind the scenes of her school’s theater, musical, and dance productions. And when she’s not working and writing, she’s creating visual art or behind the camera. Her work has appeared in Flurry and Struggle Magazine.
W. Luther Jett is a native of Montgomery County, Maryland and a retired special educator. His poetry has been published in numerous journals as well as several anthologies. He is the author of six poetry chapbooks: Not Quite: Poems Written in Search of My Father, (Finishing Line Press, 2015), and Our Situation, (Prolific Press, 2018), Everyone Disappears (Finishing Line Press, 2020), Little Wars (Kelsay Books, 2021), Watchman, What of the Night? (CW Books, 2022), and most recently The Colour War (Kelsay Book, 2024)s. His full-length collection, “Flying to America” was published by Broadstone Press in spring, 2024. Luther is facilitator of a monthly virtual open mike sponsored by the Hyattstown Mill Arts Project in Maryland. He also coordinates two monthly on-line poetry critique workshops.
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