April's program pays tribute to Gwendolyn Brooks as led by Carolyn Joyner.

GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000) was the first African-American author to win the Pulitzer Prize and to be appointed poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. She published over twenty collections of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Allen. She was also author or editor of many other books, including her novel Maud Martha. She had a distinguished teaching career and was an activist who promoted black literature and culture. Her well known poem "We Real Cool" can be heard by the author on the Poetry Foundation website.

05/7/12—Poets Karren Alenier & Yahia Lababidi with tribute to Cicely Angleton

KARREN LaLONDE ALENIER is author of six collections of poetry, including Looking for Divine Transportation, winner of the 2002 Towson University Prize for Literature. Her new book from Katywompus Press On a Bed of Gardenias: Jane and Paul Bowles tells the exotic love story of two American ex-pat writers. Her poetry and fiction have been published in such magazines as: the Mississippi Review, Jewish Currents, and Poet Lore. Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On, her jazz opera with composer William Banfield and Encompass New Opera Theatre artistic director Nancy Rhodes premiered at New York City’s Symphony Space Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater in June 2005. Composer John Supko is collaborating with her on How Many Midnights, an opera about Jane and Paul Bowles. She writes for Scene4 Magazine at scene4.com.

Egyptian-American YAHIA LABABIDI is an aphorist, poet, and essayist. He is the author of a new poetry collection, Fever Dreams (Crisis Chronicles Press), an essay collection, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly Dancing, and a collection of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Press), selected as a 2008 Book of the Year by The Independent (UK). Lababidi’s work has appeared in several anthologies, including the best-selling Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing and Geary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists. His writing has been translated into Arabic, Slovak, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, and Italian.

May's program pays tribute to Cicely Angleton

CICELY ANGLETON (1922-2011) was author of A Cave of Overwhelming (2005) and Selected Poems (2007) and a contributor to Inventory (2008), an anthology on aging. She earned a Ph.D. in medieval history from Catholic University in 1984. Read a poem by her on The Writer’s Center’s blog.

06/4/12---Translators Patricia Bejarano Fisher & Yvette Neisser Moreno read from their translation of South Pole/Polo Sur by Venezuelan poet María Teresa Ogliastri with tribute to Eleanor Ross Taylor

PATRICIA BEJARANO FISHER has worked as a Spanish instructor, translator and language-learning materials developer in both government and academia. She has taught college-level English in her native Colombia and Spanish at the University of Maryland. Her translations of Gladys Ilarregui’s poetry will be included in the forthcoming English edition of the anthology Al pie de la Casa Blanca: Poetas hispanos en Washington, DC (At the Base of the White House: Hispanic Poets in Washington, DC).

YVETTE NEISSER MORENO is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her translations of Argentinean Luis Alberto Ambroggio’s poetry in Difficult Beauty (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009) were nominated for the National Translation Award and for a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at The George Washington University and The Writer’s Center.

MARÍA TERESA OGLIASTRI has been hailed by critics as one of the “essential” Venezuelan poets of the 21st century—along with luminaries like Eugenio Montejo and Rafael Cadenas—for her “refined lyric register.” She has authored five books of poetry, most recently Del diario de la Señora Mao (From the Diary of Madame Mao), and her work has been included in several significant anthologies and studies of contemporary Venezuelan poetry. South Pole/Polo Sur is her 4th book, and the first to appear in English.

June's program pays tribute to Eleanor Ross Taylor as led by Ross Taylor.

ELEANOR ROSS TAYLOR (1920-2011) published six collections of poetry from 1960 to 2009. Although promoted by such poets as Randall Jarrell, Richard Howard, and Dave Smith, her poetry did not receive the recognition it deserved until 1998 when she began receiving such prizes as the Shelley Memorial Award by Poetry Society of America (1998), the 2000 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the 2009 Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, the 2010 William Carlos Williams Award for her Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008, and the 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Read her poem “Yes?” in Blackbird.

07/2/12---Poets Don Illich & Annabelle Moseley with tribute to John Pauker

DONALD ILLICH has published poetry in Cream City Review, The Iowa Review, Cold Mountain Review, and other journals. He won Honorable Mention in the Washington Prize book contest and was a “Discovery”/Boston Review 2008 Poetry Contest semifinalist. Additionally, he received a scholarship to the 2006 Nebraska Summer Writers' Conference and was a semifinalist in the Elixir Press Poetry Book Award Contest. Recently, he has self-published a chapbook, Rocket Children. He is a writer-editor who lives and works in Rockville, Maryland. Visit his blog at intermediatepoet.blogspot.com .

ANNABELLE MOSELEY is the author of five chapbooks, including A Field Guide to the Muses, published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. Her full-length collection, The Clock of the Long Now, is forthcoming from David Robert Books. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Lyric, The Seventh Quarry (Wales), and The Texas Review. In April 2011, her poem, "Breakable," was one of twelve poems featured on Oprah.com as part of O, The Oprah Magazine's celebration of Poetry Month. Among her distinctions is a 2008 Amy Award from Poets & Writers. She is founder and editor of String Poet, the online journal of poetry and music. She hosts The New York Times featured "String Poet Studio Series" at the Long Island Violin Shop. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Fairfield University as well as an MA in Religious Studies with a thesis on the medieval pilgrimage. Annabelle Moseley is a Lecturer at St. Joseph's College in Patchogue.

July's program pays tribute to John Pauker as led by J. H. Beall

JOHN PAUKER (1991), a retired career official of the United States Information Agency, published In Solitary and Other Imaginations in 1977 with The Word Works. He already had published three volumes of his verse in the U.S., one each in Iran and France, and two in India. A cum laude graduate of Yale, his play Moonbirds was produced on Broadway and his translation of The Dukays, a Hungarian novel, was for six months an American bestseller. He and his wife Shoo Shoo Pauker ran an art gallery known as The More Fun House East. For seven years, he was editor of Reed Whittemore’s literary quarterly known as Furioso.

08/6/12---Goethe Institute Time Shadows poetry in translation with tribute to Ernie Wormwood

SUNIL FREEMAN is author of two books of poems, That Would Explain the Violinist (Gut Punch Press, 1993), and Surreal Freedom Blues (Argonne Hotel Press, 1999). His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Gargoyle, Kiss The Sky: Fiction and Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix, and Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller's Cabin, 1984-2001.

ROD JELLEMA is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, where he founded and directed the creative writing program. He is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which, Incarnality: the Collected Poems, includes a CD reading of 26 of the poems. Jellema's work has won the Towson University Prize for Literature (2005), two writing fellowships and a poetry prize from the National Endowment for the Arts, two awards for his two books of translations of Frisian poetry, and several residency fellowships at Yaddo.

FRED JOINER

August's program pays tribute to Ernie Wormwood

ELEANOR ERNESTINE (ERNIE) WORMWORD (1946-2012) taught English and political science at St. Mary¹s College of Maryland. Her work appeared in Gargoyle, The Antietam Review, Beltway Quarterly, Innisfree and other publications. She was a Jenny Moore Workshop schlolar in Ed Skoog's class in 2009. She held a Juris Doctorate from George Washington University and a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the University of Maryland.

09/13/12---Poets Renée Ashley & Ellen Cole with tribute to Ed Cox

RENÉE ASHLEY is the author of four volumes of poetry, the most recent, Basic Heart, won the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press. Also the author of two chapbooks and a novel, she is on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing. Her awards include a Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence, the Charles Angoff Award, an American Literary Review Poetry Prize, the Chelsea Poetry Award, and the Robert H. Winner Award and the Ruth Lake Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the NEA.

ELLEN ARONOFSKY COLE’s new chapbook, Prognosis, was published in January 2011 by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have been published in The Potomac Review, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Ars Poetica.com, in Paper Kite Press’s anthology, poem, home. Ellen has been a featured reader at many venues in the Washington area, including the Iota Club, the Kensington Row Bookshop, Poesis, VixArts and The Writer Center. She has a M.A. in drama from Catholic University.

September's program pays tribute to Ed Cox as led by Kim Roberts

ED COX (1946 - 1992) is the author of three books of poems: Blocks (1972), Waking (1977), and the posthumous Collected Poems (2002). Cox was active in Mass Transit, a reading series in the 1970s, and was co-founder of Some Of Us Press. He taught poetry workshops for senior citizens, was an anti-war activist, and an advocate for social change. Except for four years in the US Navy, where he served in Japan, he spent his entire life in DC, working mostly as an administrator at public interest organizations such as Common Cause, the Indochina Refugee Action Center, the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. His poems reflect his background: Catholic, gay, and urban; as Gwendolyn Brooks has said, "His work clarifies for us much that is opaque and dizzying in this most complex of times."

10/1/12---Poets Marilyn McCabe & Barbara Ungar with tribute to Marquita Mullen

MARILYN McCABE’s Perpetual Motion was chosen by judge Gray Jacobik for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection by The Word Works, 2012, and her chapbook Rugged Means of Grace was published by Finishing Line Press, 2011. Her work has appeared in such literary magazines as Painted Bride Quarterly, Nimrod and Beloit Poetry Journal, and songs and translations have been featured on NumeroCinqMagazine.com. She reviews poetry books frequently on ConnotationPress.com.

BARBARA LOUISE UNGAR’s latest book, Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life, was a poetry best-seller for Small Press Distribution upon its arrival this spring from The Word Works. Prior books include Thrift and The Origin of the Milky Way, which won the Gival Press Poetry Award, an Independent Publishers Silver Medal, an Eric Hoffer Award, and the Adirondack Center for Writing Poetry Award. She is an English professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, and lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.

October's program pays tribute to Marquita Mullen as led by Jean Bower

MARIQUITA MULLEN

11/8/12---Poet Greg McBride & James Arthur with tribute to Reed Whittemore

GREG MCBRIDE's collection, Porthole, won the 2012 Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry.  A chapbook, Back of the Envelope, appeared from Southeast Missouri State University Press in 2009. His poems, essays, and reviews appear in Boulevard, Harvard Review Online, Poet Lore, and Southern Poetry Review. His awards include the 2008 Boulevard Emerging Poet prize and an individual artist grant in poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council. A Vietnam veteran and retired lawyer, he edits The Innisfree Poetry Journal.

JAMES ARTHUR's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, and The American Poetry Review. He has received the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Stegner Fellowship, and a residency at the Amy Clampitt House. During 2012-2013, he will be a Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts in Princeton. His first book, Charms Against Lightning, will be published in fall 2012 by Copper Canyon Press, as a Lannan Literary Selection.

November's program pays tribute to Reed Whittemore as led by Grace Cavalieri

REED WHITTEMORE (1913-2012) began his long literary life as an undergraduate at Yale, co-founding with James Angleton, Furioso, a magazine of poetry, criticism, and cultural issues. A life-long teacher, he remained a dedicated literary editor and advocate of little magazines. He later started The Carleton Miscellany and in the 1980s took over Delos, a journal of world literature and translation. Beginning in 1946 with Heroes & Heroines, Reed went on to publish ten collections of poetry – The Mother’s Breast & The Father’s House (1974) was a finalist for the National Book Award. He twice served as Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress (now U.S. Poet Laureate) and from 1985-1988 as Poet Laureate of Maryland. In the mid-70s, he was literary editor of The New Republic, went on to write a biography of William Carlos Williams, Poet from Jersey, and published books of criticism, and several about biography. In 2007, Dryad Press published Against the Grain: The Literary Life of a Poet.

12/3/12---Sally Bliumis-Dunn & Margo Stever with tribute to John Haines

SALLY BLIUMIS-DUNN is author of Talking Underwater and Second Skin, both poetry collections published by Wind Publications. Her poems have been published in The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry London, and the NYT, among others. In 2008, she was asked to read in the Love Poems program at the Library of Congress. She teaches Modern Poetry and Creative Writing at Manhattanville College. She lives in Armonk, New York with her husband, John and their four children.

MARGO TAFT STEVER’s book Frozen Spring was winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry (2002) and Reading the Night Sky won the 1996 Riverstone Poetry Chapbook Competition. Forthcoming in 2012 is The Hudson Line (Main Street Rag). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The Cincinnati Review, Webster Review, New England Review, and Rattapallax. She is the founder of The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center and founding editor of Slapering Hol Press. She has read her poetry at such venues as the 2010 Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival, Folger Shakespeare Library, and Shanghai International Studies University.

December's program pays tribute to John Haines as led by Miles David Moore & Steven B. Rogers

JOHN HAINES

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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 Competition subject: 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

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

2009

01/5/09---Poets Kathi Wolfe & Brian Bodeur

02/2/09---Poets Brandel France de Bravo & Wendell Hawken

03/2/09---Poets Joshua Poteat & Cecily Parks

04/6/09---Poets Rosemary Winslow & Barbara Crooker

05/4/09---Poets Judy Neri & Anne Harding Woodworth

06/1/09---Poets Wayne Miller & Eric Pankey

07/6/09---Sculptor Mark Behme & Poet JoAnne Growney

08/3/09---Poets Lavonne J. Adams & 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 & Kara Candito

2010

01/4/10---Poets Katherine Young & Greg McBride

02/1/10---Poets Greg Pardlo & Ed Skoog

03/1/10---Poets Ned Balbo & Kristi Maxwell

04/5/10---Poets Jason Gray & Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

05/3/10---Poets David Dodd Lee & Leslie Wheeler

06/7/10---Poets Mark Bibbins & Jehanne Dubrow

07/19/10---Poets Myra Sklarew & Ethelbert Miller

08/2/10---Poets Henry Israeli & Patricia Davis

09/20/10---Dave and Janet Northrup [Chautauqua Readers]

10/4/10---Poets Idra Novey & Luis Alberto Ambroggio

11/1/15---Poets Barbara Goldberg & David Salner

12/6/10---Poets Catie Rosemurgy & Greg Williamson

2011—Special thanks to the New Room Poets, the town of Somerset, the Giant Food store of Friendship Heights, Joseph Goldberg, Marchant Wentworth, Mary Jane Barnett, Ruby Saunders, Hastings Wyman, Jeannine & Joseph Jeffs, Michael Collier, Heea Vazirani, and anonumous contributors who made the 2011 Cafe Muse programs possible. Also thanks to poets Anne Becker, E. Ethelbert Miller, Luybomir Nikolev, Donna Denize, Myra Sklarew, Greg McBride, and Grace Cavalieri for participating in tribute programs.

01/3/11---Poets Charles Jensen & Alexandra van de Kamp with tribute to Hilary Tham

02/7/11---Poets Melissa Stein & Merrill Leffler with tribute to Betty Parry

03/7/11---Poets Sue Ellen Thompson & Eleanor Wilner with tribute to Jacklyn Potter

04/4/11---Grace Cavalieri's German Cookbook: A Feast of Poets including Karren Alenier, Tina Daub, Nan Fry, Patricia Gray, Katherine Williams with tribute to Robert Sargent

05/2/11—Novelist Thomas Mallon & Poet Jason Schneiderman with tribute to Roland Flint

06/6/11---Poets Martin Galvin & Rod Jellema with tribute to Luciile Clifton

07/18/11---Poets Carlos Parada Ayala, Luis Alberto Ambroggio, and anthology guest poets with tribute to Egla Morales Blouin

08/1/11---Poets Kyle Dargan & Lew Watts with tribute to Sterling Brown

09/19/11---Megan Synder Camp and Michele Wolf with tribute to Ann Knox

10/3/11---Poets Linda Pastan and Jane Shore with tribute to Ann Darr

11/7/11---Word Girls Barbara Crooker, Meredith Davies Hadaway, & Erin Murphywith tribute to Chasen Gaver

12/5/11---Nancy Naomi Carlson & Carol Ann Davis with tribute to Reetika Vazirani

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