Please join us on March 10th when our featured poets will be Katherine E. Young, Martha Sanchez-Lowery, and Joelle Bielle, upstairs at the Gaithersburg Library, 2-4 pm. The reading is hosted by Lucinda Marshall and will be followed by an Open Mic.
Katherine E. Young is the author of Day of the Border Guards, 2014 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize finalist, and two chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, Subtropics, and many others. She is the translator of Farewell, Aylis by Azerbaijani political prisoner Akram Aylisli, as well as Blue Birds and Red Horses and Two Poems, both by Inna Kabysh. Her translations of Russian and Russophone authors have been widely published, including in Asymptote, The White Review, Words without Borders, The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, and 100 Poems about Moscow: An Anthology, winner of the 2017 Books of Russia award in Poetry. Several have been made into short films. Young was named a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellow and served as the inaugural poet laureate for Arlington, Virginia (2016-2018).
Martha Sanchez-Lowery was born in La Paz, Bolivia and lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Her poem “The Dark Earth Call” was set to dance by Jane Franklin Dance Company as part of the program Dancing the Page. Her poetry has appeared in Gargoyle, Beltway, Hispanic Culture Review, and Poets Against the War, and appears in the anthologies Knocking on the Door of the White House (Al Pie de La Casa Blanca), Winners: An Anthology, andCabin Fever. Her chapbook Bocanegra was published by Mica Press. She was Executive Producer for the Poetry Alive at IOTA – 20th Anniversary CD.
Joelle Biele is the author of Tramp, Broom, and White Summer and the editor of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. A Fulbright professor in Germany and Poland, she has received awards from the Poetry Society of America and the Maryland State Arts Council.
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