June -- Big Light Reading Series

Sat, 13 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm UTC-04:00

Atomic Books | Baltimore

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June -- Big Light Reading Series
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Join us to celebrate the release of Baltimore-based poet Barbara Westwood Diehl's debut chapbook, "Foolish," which won our 2025 Mid-Atlantic Chapbook Series.
ABOUT THE READERS:
Barbara Westwood Diehl is senior editor of The Baltimore Review. Her fiction and poetry appear in a variety of journals, including Fractured Lit, South Florida Poetry Journal, Poetry South, Painted Bride Quarterly, Five South, Allium, Split Rock Review, Blink-Ink, Midway, Free State Review, Ghost Parachute, Pithead Chapel, New World Writing Quarterly, Tiny Molecules, Sky Island Journal, and Cleaver.
Marie Abate is a poet and writer based in Baltimore. She holds an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in The Sewanee Theological Review, Free State Review, Lines and Stars, and other journals. She is the author of The April Sonnets, a poetry collection published by Aldrich Press. Formerly the poetry editor of Seltzer, a Baltimore literary magazine, she also co-founded Moaning Pipe Cabaret, a long-running open mic series dedicated to poetry and performance. When not writing, she can often be found exploring Baltimore’s gardens and playgrounds with her son, Paul.
Baltimore native Marcie Roman is the author of Journey to the Parallels (Fitzroy Books, 2022), a Foreword INDIE Book of the Year. Her short fiction has appeared in several journals including Vast Chasm, Eleventh Hour Literary, On the Premises, Toronto Journal, Driftwood, Split Lip, and CALYX. Her work can also be found in Short Edition story dispensers and as part of the global art exhibition TELEPHONE. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Online you can find her at marcieroman.com.
Mike Shattuck is from Baltimore, Maryland, and has a MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. His writing - short fiction, poetry, and book reviews - has been published by JMWW, Lines + Stars, Infinity's Kitchen, Mason Jar Press, Microfiction Monday, Ink Press, Deadly Chaps, and Baltimore City Paper if you count part of a letter that ran in Joe McCloud's "Mr. Wrong" column. Once upon a time, he worked on an online zine and open mic series Seltzer. He is managing editor at Mason Jar Press and lives in Lauraville.
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