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We are delighted to welcome you to the March edition of Wilde Readings, featuring poets Ashley Elizabeth and Sue Ellen Thompson and you. The evening's host is Jared SmithAbout our Guests:
Ashley Elizabeth
Ashley Elizabeth (she/her) is a Baltimore-based poet and winner of the 2024 Garden Party Collective Chapbook Contest. She is a Pushcart-nominated writer and educator whose work has appeared in SWWIM, Voicemail Poems, Rigorous, and Sage Cigarettes, among others. She is the author of four chapbooks, including red line and CHARM(ed). Her debut full-length, A Family Thing, is out now from ELJ Editions. Find her on IG and Twitter @ae_thepoet or her website aetheblkpoet.com.
Sue Ellen Thompson
Sue Ellen Thompson is the author of six books of poetry—most recently Sea Nettles: New & Selected Poems. Before moving to the Eastern Shore in 2006, she taught at Middlebury College, Binghamton University, Wesleyan University, and Central Connecticut State University. A resident of Oxford for the past 18 years, she has been mentoring adult poets and teaching workshops at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda. In 2010, the Maryland Library Association awarded her its prestigious Maryland Author Award.
Please spread the word - bring your friends, family, and students. All are welcome. We encourage you to participate in the open mic. Please prepare no more than five minutes of performance time/two poems.
Sign up for the open mic in advance by filling out this online form: https://www.queentakesbook.com/wildereadings.
Light refreshments will be served. Books by both featured authors and open mic readers will be available for sale.'
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Queen Takes Book 6955 Oakland Mills Rd. Suite E Columbia MD, 6955 Oakland Mills Rd, Columbia, MD 21045-5849, United States,Columbia, Maryland
