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
Michele Wolf is the author of the poetry collections Peacocks on the Streets, Immersion, Conversations During Sleep, and the chapbook The Keeper of Light. Her poems have been featured in The Southern Review, Poetry, The Hudson Review, and elsewhere, including on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and the Poetry Foundation’s Poem of the Day. Among her honors are the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, a Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award, and fellowships from the Montgomery County Arts and Humanities Council, Yaddo, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She teaches at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda and lives in Gaithersburg.
Indran Amirthanayagam has just published his translation of Kenia Cano’s Animal For The Eyes (Dialogos Books, 2025). Other recent publications include Seer (Hanging Loose Press) and The Runner’s Almanac (Spuyten Duyvil). He is the translator of Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia (Dialogos Books). Powèt Nan Pò A (Poet of the Port), his love song to Haiti, was published by Mad Hat Press. Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant (Broadstone Books) is another collection of his poems. He edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly, hosts the Poetry Channel on YouTube, and publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions.
DiVerse Gaithersburg 