CAFE MUSE LITERARY
SERIES
The Word Works
in cooperation with The Village of Friendship Heights presents monthly
literary programs at 7:00 pm that open with Michael Davis on classical guitar. In February 2007, the program moved to Monday nights. Open readings
follow the featured readers. Sign up begins at 7:00pm. This
event is free to the public.
Friendship Heights
Village Center is a five-minute walk from the Friendship
Heights Metro Rail Stop at 4433 South Park Avenue, Chevy
Chase, Maryland. For further information call: 301 656-2797.
PROGRAMS IN
2009:
Michael Davis
will open most programs starting at 7:00 pm with classical
guitar music. Adele Steiner became the host in August 2008 and Laura Golberg joined her as co-host in March 2009. Thanks to The Village of Friendship Heights which
makes these programs possible.
01/5/09---Poets Kathi Wolfe & Brian Bodeur
KATHI WOLFE is author of Helen Takes the Stage: The Helen Keller Poems, a finalist in the 2007 Pudding House Press Chapbook competition. Her poetry has appeared in Gargoyle, Potomac Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, and other publications. Wolfe has received a Puffin Foundation grant and been awarded poetry residencies by Vermont Studio Center. Her poem “Blind Ambition” was awarded Honorable Mention in the 2007 Passager Magazine poetry contest. She is a columnist for Scene4 (www.scene4.com), a monthly, international arts magazine.
BRIAN BRODEUR is the author of Other Latitudes (2008), winner of the University of Akron Press’s 2007 Akron Poetry Prize and So the Night Cannot Go on without Us (2007), which won the Fall 2006 White Eagle Coffee Store Press Poetry Chapbook Award. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gettysburg Review, Margie, The Missouri Review, and River Styx.
02/2/09---Poets
Brandel France de Bravo & Wendell Hawken
BRANDEL FRANCE DE BRAVO is author of Provenance, won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House prize for poetry in 2008. She is also co-author of Trees Make the Best Mobiles: Simple Ways to Raise your Child in a Complex World (St. Martin’s Press). Her poetry has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review and The American Voice, as well as in numerous anthologies. She is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and has been the recipient of a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities grant. She works at the National Research Center for Women and Families here in Washington, D.C.
WENDELL HAWKEN is author of The Luck of Being, published by The Backwaters Press of Omaha, NE in July 2008. A chapbook, Mother Tongue, was published by Argonne House Press of Washington, D.C. in 2001. In 2005 she received an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. She is a retired marketing executive who now lives on a cattle farm in the northern Shenandoah Valley.
03/2/09---Poets Joshua Poteat & Cecily Parks
JOSHUA POTEAT’s books include Meditations (Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Prize, 2004), Ornithologies (Anhinga Press Poetry Prize, 2006), and Illustrating the Machine that Makes the World (University of Georgia/VQR, 2009). Over the last few years he has won prizes from American Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Columbia, and many others. Recently, poems have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Blackbird, Indiana Review, and others. Joshua lives in Richmond, Virginia, where he works as an editor of assorted texts.
CECILY PARKS is the author of Field Folly Snow. She has been published in such magazines as The Paris Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review. Read her poems at Blackbird.
04/6/09---Poets Rosemary Winslow & Barbara Crooker
BARBARA CROOKER is the author of Line Dance (Word Press) and Radiance (winner of the Word Press First Book Competition). She has published ten chapbook including Impressionism, winner of the Grayson Books Chapbook Competition, and Ordinary Life, winner of the Byline chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared widely in The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Denver Quarterly, and on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac.
ROSEMARY WINSLOW is the author of Green Bodies (The Word Works) and two-time winner of the Larry Neal Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, 32 Poems, Poet Lore, Innisfree Poetry Journal and numerous other publications. She lives in Washington, DC where she teaches literature and writing at Catholic University.
05/4/09---Poets Judy Neri & Anne Harding Woodworth
JUDY NERI is the author of Always the Trains (New Academia Publishing,
2008), selected for The Monserrat Review's "Best Summer Reading 2008" list and awarded a five star review from armchairinterviews.com. She has had poems in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, in InnisfreePoetry Journal. Her work has appeared on a bench in Bethesda, MD, and on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. She has worked as a college teacher and labor editor and writes essays as well.
ANNE HARDING WOODWORTH's most recent book is Spare Parts, A Novella in Verse (Turning Point, 2008). She is the author of two other books of poetry and two chapbooks. Her essays and poetry have appeared widely in journals, such as TriQuarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Poet Lore, as well as at several sites on line. She has written extensively on soccer and edited the anthology, Soccer Zones: Writings out of American Soccer. She has an MFA in poetry from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Some of her work can be seen and heard at annehardingwoodworth.com.
06/1/09---Poets Wayne Miller & Eric Pankey
WAYNE MILLER is the author of two collections of poems, The Book of Props (Milkweed,
2009) and Only the Senses Sleep, translator of Moikom Zeqo’s I Don't Believe in Ghosts and co-
editor of New European Poets. He has received many awards including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship
and the Bess Hokin Prize from the Poetry Foundation. He lives in Kansas City and teaches as the
University of Central Missouri, where he co-edits Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.
ERIC PANKEY is the author of eight books of poetry, including For the New Year, winner of the Walt Whitman Award, Cenotaph, Oracle Figures, Reliquaries, and most recently, The Pear As One Example (Ausable Press, 2008.) His work has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is professor of English at George Mason University.
07/6/09---Sculptor Mark Behme & Poet JoAnne Growney
MARK BEHME is a Washington, DC based artist represented by Gallery Neptune in Bethesda, MD. Working mostly in wood, Behme’s sculptural pieces are well known for their surrealist qualities and his tendency to use word play as a guide to his metaphors. Behme has been active in the DC art scene since the late 1970’s and has shown in other local galleries and NYC. In the early 80’s Behme won the Grand Prize at the Corcoran Masquerade Ball juried by Andy Warhol. Behme’s past and current work can be seen at his web site, markbehme.com.
JoANNE GROWNEY is a poet and mathematician, a former professor, a long-time Pennsylvanian who recently moved south to Silver Spring. She is an editor of the recent collection: Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics. A collection of her mathematical poems is available in My Dance is Mathematics (Paper Kite Press, 2006). In addition to appearing in several anthologies of Pennsylvania poetry, her work is found in recent issues of Watershed, Divided City, Poet Lore, and Innisfree; for math-poetry and ekphrastic poetry and other multi-lingual activities visit joannegrowney.com.
08/3/09---Poets Luis Alberto Ambroggio & Yvette Neisser Moreno
09/21/09---Poets Deborah Ager & Deborah Bogen
10/5/09---Poets Kathy Fagan & Angie Estes
11/2/09---Poets Judith Robinson & Michael Wurster
12/7/09---Poet Kathi Morrison-Taylor
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PAST PROGRAMS
Strathmore Hall
Arts Center 1999-2002:
1999
01/12/99---Poet
Reuben Jackson
2/10/99---Storyteller
Elloise Schoettler
3/10/99---Poets
Nathalie Anderson and Andrea Collins
4/14/99---Poets
Barri Armitage and Terence Winch
5/12/99---Poets
Barbara Goldberg and Stanley Plumley
6/9/99---Poet
Karren Alenier and Novelist David Fenza
07/14/99---Storyteller
Elloise Schoettler
8/11/99---Performance
poet Kenny Carroll
9/8/99---Poets
Vladimir Levchev and Henry Taylor
10/13/99---Storyteller
Elloise Schoettler
11/10/99---Performance
poet Sylvana Straw
12/8/99---Poets
Mel Belin and Ron Wray
2000
01/12/00---Celebration
of Winners: A Retrospective Of The Washington
Prize (With poets: Barbara Goldberg, Elaine Magarrell,
Brandon Johnson, Martha Sanchez-Lowery,and Richard Peabody.
With editors Karren Alenier, Hilary Tham and Miles Moore.
2/09/00---Poet
David Gewanter
3/8/00---Poet
Miles Moore
4/12/00---Storyteller
Elloise Schoettler
5/10/00---Musica
Viva Program with poet Lori Tsang, pianist Carl Banner,
artist Marilyn Banner
6/14/00---Performance
poets Silvana Straw and Brian Gilmore
7/12/00---Ascension
Series and Ethelbert Miller present poets Rebecca Villarreal
and Eva Day 8/9/00--Mariposa Series and Maritza Rivera
present poets Forestine Bynum, David Daumit and Ryan McAllister
09/13/00---Poets
Peter Blair & Brandon Johnson
10/11/00---Performance
artist Kwelismith & poet Robert Sargent
11/15/00---Poet
Hilary Tham
12/13/00---Storyteller
Elloise Schoettler
2001
01/10/01---Performance
poet D.J. Renegade
02/14/01---Open
Mike Competiton on Love
03/14/01---Poets
Barbara DeCesare and Barrett Warner
04/11/01---Poets
Myra Sklarew and Anne Harding Woodworth
05/09/01---Poets
Hiram Larew and Michael Wurster
06/13/01---Minimus
Productions with fiction by Terence Mulligan and poetry
of Miles David Moore celebrating the recording Fatslug
Unbound. With poets Miles David Moore, Mel Belin, and
Judith McCombs.
07/11/01---Poets
Grace Cavalieri and Kim Roberts
08/8/01---Best
of Galaxy Hut with poets Cynthia Hoffman, Erich Hintze,
and Brandon Johnson
10/10/01---Poets
Mark McMorris and Terence Winch
11/14/01---Editors
of Potomac Review presented winners of the 2001 Potomac
Review poetry contest: Judith McCombs, Kathy Michaels,
Thom Stuart
12/12/01---Poets
Doris Brody and Patricia Garfinkel
2002
01/9/02---Poets
Michael Glaser and Steve Scafidi
02/13/02---Poets
Anne Marie Macari and Belle Waring
03/13/02---Novelist
Sarah Blake and poet Joshua Weiner
04/10/02---Poets
Elizabeth Arnold and John Haines
05/08/02---Poets
Michael Collier and Richard McCann
06/12/02---Open
Mike Poetry CompetitionÑsubject: cuisine
07/10/02---Crow's
Eye ViewÑWord Works Publication Celebration
08/14/02---Poets
of Tupelo Press: Jeffrey Levine, Nancy Naomi Carlson,
Jennifer Michael Hecht, and Margaret Szumowski
9/11/02---A
Night of RemembranceÑreadings from the new anthology edited
by William Heyen September 11, 2001: American Writers
Respond
10/9/02---Poets
Jean Nordhaus and Linda Pastan
11/13/02---Poets
Jean Donnelly and Rod Smith
Friendship Heights
Village Center:
2003
01/16/03---Poets
Julianna Baggott & Michael Gushue
02/20/03---Poet
Andrea Hollander Budy
03/20/03---Minimus
journal publication reading: poets Barbara Alfaro &
Patricia Gray
04/17/03---Novelist
Donna Hemans & poet Ross Taylor
05/15/03---Poets
Christopher Conlon & Hilary Tham
06/19/03---Poets
Grace Schulman & Maria Terrone
07/17/03---Poets
Greg Donavan & John Hoppenthaler
08/21/03---Kenny
Carroll hosts a Writer's Corp Slamwith poet Isaac Colon
10/1/03---Publication
reading from Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge with
poetsBett Notter, Ellen Sazzman, Michele Wolf
11/20/03---Poets
James Hopkins & Suzanne Rhodenbaugh
12/18/03---Potomac
Review presents poets Nancy Allinson,P. Michael Mastrofrancesco,
Joanna Robin
2004
01/15/04---Poets
Rick Barott & David Gewanter
02/19/04---Poet
James Hoch & novelist Howard Norman
03/18/04---Poets
Kelly Cherry & Cornelius Eady
04/15/04---Poets
Stephen Corey & Jim Peterson
05/20/04---Poets
Richard Blanco & Terese Svoboda
06/17/04---Poets
Gray Jacobik & Ron Mohring
07/15/04---Jacklyn
Potter hosts a ublication reading of Cabin Fever: Poets
at Joaquin Miller's Cabin with W. Perry Epes, Brian
Gilmore, Anne Harding Woodworth
08/19/04---Poets
Rick Cannon & Sean Enright
09/16/04---Poets
Christopher Conlon & Miles David Moore
10/21/04---Poets
C.M. Mayo & Elizabeth Rees
11/18/04---Poets
Jody Bolz & Gary Stein
12/16/04---Rick
Peabody presents a Gargoyle publication reading with poets
Rose Solari & Alan Spears.
2005
01/20/05---Novelist
Benita Kane Jaro & Rod Jellema
02/17/05---Poets
Lavonne Adams & Judith McCombs
03/17/05---Poets
Kelly Cherry & Cornelius Eady
04/21/05---Translation
readings with poets Luis Alberto Ambroggio & Semezdin Mehmedinovic
05/19/05---Poets
Mark Cox & Myra Sklarew
06/16/05---Publication
reading by Deborah Ager & 32 Poems magazine
07/21/05---Poets Naomi Ayala & James Deahl
08/18/05---Poets
Grace Cavalieri & Darcy Chargo
09/15/05---Poets Lia Purpura & Jonathan Vaile
10/20/05---Poet Rosemary Klein & fiction writer Leslie Pietrzyk
11/17/05---Poet
Nan Fry & fiction writer Ron Tanner
12/15/05---Publication
reading by Robert Giron & Gival Press with poets PiotrGwiazda,
Kim Roberts, J.D. Smith
2006
01/19/06---Poet Donna Denize & Playwright Sean O'Leary
02/16/06---Poets
David McAleavey & Rose Solari
03/16/06---Poets Ann Knox & Hailey Leithauser
04/20/06---Translation reading Dilara Hashem/Carolyne Wright and Roberto Severino/Judy Neri
05/18/06---Poets Vladimir Levchev & Alicia Ostriker
06/15/06---WWPH reading with Moira Egan & Dean Smith and celebrating Tin Mines & Concubines by Hilary Tham
07/20/06---Jazz poet Cliff Bernier with performance artist Verneice Turner and poets Yoko Danno with James Hopkins
08/17/06---Passager magazine reading with poets Shirley Brewer and Norma Chapman
09/21/06---Poets Nathalie Anderson & Nick Johnson
10/19/06---Poets Jennifer Gresham & Richard Lyons
11/16/06---Poets Brandon Johnson & Diane Lockward
12/14/06---Tributes to Robert Sargent led by poet Grace Cavalieri & to Jacklyn Potter led by poet Anne Becker
For more information
about other Word Works programs and general DC literary
events, see Beltway
News Events Calendar.
2007
01/18/07---Poets Jody Bolz & Jean Nordhaus
02/5/07---Poets
Moira Egan & Dwaine Rieves
03/5/07---Poet E. Lousie Beach & novelist Frank S. Joseph
04/9/07---Poets Jason Gray and John Surowiecki
05/7/07---Poets Elizabeth Hadaway & David Hamilton
06/4/07---Poets Bruce Bennett and Joshua Weiner
07/2/07---Poets Barbara Lefcowitz & Terence Winch
08/6/07---Publication Reading—COMMON WEALTH: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania with poets Barbara DeCesare, Joanne Growney, Marjorie Maddox, and Jerry Wemple
09/17/07---Poet and translator Judith Hemschemeyer
10/1/07---Poet Pamela Harrison and playwright Juanita Rockwell
11/5/07---Poet Sarah Browning & Writer Richard McCann
12/3/07---Echoes poetry anthology reading with poets Steve M. Buter and Susan Levy
2008
01/07/08---Poets Kurt Olsson & Gretchen Primack
02/04/08---Poets Margo Berdeshevsky and Stanley Plumly
03/03/08---Poets Mary Ann Larkin and Bruce MacKinnon
04/07/08---Poets Anne Becker and Heddy Reid
05/05/08--Poets Dan Kaplan and Bryan Penberthy
06/02/08---Poets Christopher Conlon and Erica Dawson
07/07/08---Poet Grace Cavalieri and Prartho Sereno
08/04/08---Family Pictures: Poems and Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones anthology reading with contributing poets and editor Kwame Alexander
09/15/08---Poets Sandra Beasley and Susan Settlemyre Williams
10/06/08---Poets Barbara Goldberg and Kathy Mangan
11/17/08---Poets Karren L. Alenier and Kevin Prufer
12/01/08---Poets Rick Barot and Martin Galvin
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For more information
about other Word Works programs and general DC literary
events, see Beltway
News Events Calendar.
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