PAST BAWA* EVENTS
Check out our poem
page for a partial listing of some of the poetry we've read.
2004
"Honoring
Three Silenced American Poets:
Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, & Walt Whitman"
In
February of 2003, the White House cancelled a symposium entitled
“Poetry and the American Voice” designed to honor these three great
American poets. The reason given was that “poetry should not be political.”
We invite you to come and hear the work of
these great American Poets
who would not be silenced in their own lifetimes.
Featured Readers: Michael
Gushue, Kim Schraf, Dan Vera & Craig Wallace.
A
printable poster of this event is archived here.
Poet's Choice
An Open Poetry Reading
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Ray Allard, Michael Gushue,
Kim Schraf, Dan Vera,
Craig Wallace & Vinnie Wohlfarth.
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
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It was a delightful evening of wonderful poetry.
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Sarah
Browning is a wonderful poet and community organizer. She has
had poems widely published in journals such The New York Quarterly,
The Literary Review, and Eclipse. She received the
Quadrangle Poetry Award in 2001 and took third place in the Larry
Neal Awards for Poetry in 2003. She was founding director of Amherst
Writers & Artists Institute, an organization providing creative
writing workshops to low-income women and youth, and now works
raising money for women playwrights and Most
recently she was coeditor of D.C. Poets Against the War: An
Anthology (Argonne House Press, 2003) and coordinates the
group of the same name. A
printable poster of this |
2004
Summer Series |
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The
Dog night was extremely popular and will no doubt become a tradition.
We barely scratched the surface of dog poems that are out there.
The August reading was also a pleasure and the ice cream social afterwards was just right. That night came after what most agreed was one of the HOTTEST days in DC. So it was just what was needed.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2004
An evening of poetry and readings honoring
Sterling Brown
and other writers and artists of Brookland.
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
