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Join us for the seasonal installment of our Big Light Reading Series, featuring poets Shenandoah Sowash, Ashley Elizabeth, and Leslie Schwerin. About the readers:
Shenandoah Sowash's work has appeared in Gargoyle, The Collagist, The Laurel Review, Smartish Pace, Vinyl Poetry, and elsewhere. She's received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Workshop, the Summer Literary Seminars, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Kimmel Nelson Harding Center for the Arts, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Currently completing her first book, she lives in Washington, DC.
Ashley Elizabeth (she/her) is a winner of the 2024 Garden Party Collective Chapbook Contest as well as a Pushcart-nominated writer and teacher whose work has appeared in SWWIM, Voicemail Poems, Rigorous, and Sage Cigarettes, among others. Ashley is the author of A Family Thing (Redacted Books/ELJ Editions, 2024) and 4 chapbooks, two of which released this year. When she isn't teaching, reading, or writing, Ashley works as Chapbook Editor at Sundress Publications. She lives on the original land of the Piscataway (Baltimore, MD) with her partner and their cats.
Leslie Schwerin is an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. She writes poems inspired by close encounters with her film subjects, including (but not limited to!) musty Egyptian mummies, ancient shipwrecks, mad scientists, the first-ever encounter with a giant squid in its natural habitat, volcanoes that tend to over-share, and the classic: girl fish meets girl fish and then turns into a boy fish. She received her MFA in Poetry at Warren Wilson Program for Writers.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Atomic Books, 3618 Falls Rd, Baltimore, MD 21211-1846, United States,Baltimore, Maryland
