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We are delighted to welcome intermedia artist and writer Rahne Alexander and Poet Maritza Rivera, and you to our October Wilde Readings event. We've moved to o a wonderful new Columbia MD venue, Queen Takes Book in the Snowden Center while the Columbia Arts Center undergoes renovations. Host Linda Joy BurkeRahne Alexander
Rahne Alexander is an intermedia artist and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. She holds an MFA in Intermedia+Digital Arts from UMBC, and her visual and performance works have been exhibited across the U.S. and around the world. Her writing has appeared in BmoreArt, The Hopkins Review and the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica. Her essay chapbook Heretic to Housewife was awarded the 2019 OutWrite nonfiction prize, and she publishes a blog called Paradise Is Not For Sale.
Maritza Rivera
Maritza Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet and Army veteran who resides in Rockville, MD and San Juan, PR. She has been writing poetry for over fifty years and is the creator of a short form of poetry called Blackjack. Maritza is the author of About You; A Mother’s War; Baker’s Dozen; Twenty-One: Blackjack Poems and the Blackjack Poetry Playing Cards. Since 2011, she hosts the Mariposa Poetry Retreat and the Mariposa Reunion Reading. Her work appears in literary magazines, online publications and the public arts project, Meet Me At the Triangle located in Wheaton, MD. In 2022 Maritza and Jeffery Banks co-edited Diaspora Café: DC, an Afro-LatinX anthology published by Day Eight. In 2023, she translated the poetry collection, Inquilinos Mudos/Silent Tenents by Alberto Roblest from Spanish into English.
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.'
#Poetry, #literature, #fiction, #Hocopolitso #Openmic #columbiamd
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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
