Just on the other side of yesterday's The Little Patuxent Review reading debuting the poem, let's share congratulations to @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize!
Winning poem & learn a bit about the poet in the link.
hocopolitso.org/2026/02/17/m...
Saddened to hear of the passing of Coleman Barks this week. Here is a treasure of an interview with Bill Moyers at the Dodge Poetry Festival when was held in Waterloo, New Jersey. Obituary in the comments.
vimeo.com/33285728
We'll just leave this right here. Surprised by a few of these, was just humming along unawares.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
HoCoPoLitSo.org for tickets.
Weβre delighted to welcome Caoilinn Hughes, acclaimed author of The Wild Laughter and The Alternatives, as our featured guest for the Annual Celebration of Irish Writing & Music.
ποΈ Saturday, February 7th, 7:30 p.m.
π Smith Theater-HCC Campus-Columbia, Maryland
ποΈ hocopolitso.org/irish-evening/
OK, was this on ANYONE'S radar? Paul McCartney, Phillip Glass, Lenny Kaye in different versions of this out there. Wow. Yes, you will. #dayofthedead
youtu.be/4KWcmI802mw?...
Next up for HoCoPoLitSo, it's our annual Irish Evening. This year featuring novelist and poet Caoilinn Hughes.
For more information and tickets,https://hocopolitso.org/irish-evening/
Tonight's the night, @queentakesbook's the place. #StartTheYearOutWrite
Featured readers: Steven Leyva and Julia Tagliere.
Queen Takes Book is located at 6955 Oakland Mills Rd E, Columbia, MD 21045. Phone: (301) 456-4632
Tomorrow evening at @queentakesbook in Columbia, Md. it is the first Wilde Readings of the year. Two featured readers and an open mic (and plenty of books to buy).
Featured readers: Steven Leyva @sdleyva and Julia Tagliere @julia_justscribbling. Join us!
Ross Gay is delight full. Come see for yourself as he joins us for a Happiness Hour at 5:30 on Friday, November 7th in Columbia, Maryland.
For all you need to know and tickets, visit hocopolitso.org.
Direct ticket link: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
Tickets just $25.
You kept telling us. We kept looking in the wrong place. Thanks for your persistence. The ghost of last year's contest that has been haunting our website has now been exercised. Sincere apologies for that inconvenience. You can now visit HoCoPoLitSo.org for a no-ghosts go at entering the contest.
How are YOU practicing delight?
One of the things that is delighting us to no end is that we have Ross Gay coming to Columbia on November 7th. It is the not-to-miss end of our 50th season. We'll be even more delighted if you join us. Details in the comments.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2EE...
Tickets, just $25. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
Are you the next Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize winner? We are looking forward to seeing your work!
For all you need to know and to enter, visit:
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
Queen Takes Book is located at
6955 Oakland Mills Rd, Suite E
Columbia, MD 21045-5849
Phone (301) 456-4632
Readings are America's new favorite past time? Come see what the hype is about next Tuesday at Queen Takes Book in Columbia, Md, where we will be hosting another Wilde Readings. Featured readers: Hannah V. Sawyerr and Ronald L. Smith. Details in the comments.
electricliterature.com/readings-mig...
βKrasznahorkai, I noticed, loved the snaking sentence, the high-wire act, mild panic steering towards a shivering fear felt by his characters, followed, in clause after clause, by fitful realisations and further reasons for gloom or alarm, and thenβ¦β Read on:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
"Hungarian writer LΓ‘szlΓ³ Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of βapocalyptic terror.β"
apnews.com/article/nobe...
A very special event coming up a week from this Friday at the Residence of Vantage Point. The community will host Howard County's Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate, Mai-Anh Nguyen in a conversation with Felix Facchine, Deputy Chief of Staο¬ for the County, exploring the experience the young poet.
For more information on these and all of our upcoming events, visit hocopolitso.org.
We took a moment to visit the #BannedBooks event at Howard Community College where we found students ghoulishly guarding the tombstones of books that have been banned. Impassioned students talked about books and the freedom to read. Great work, students.
#CensorshipIsSo1984 #FreedomToRead #Freadom
It's Banned Books Week. How are you celebrating your fREADom?
The announcement is TODAY! We are on the edge of our seats. We actually won't know the winner until the announcement later today at Busboys and Poets.
Two opportunities to see Safia Elhillo -- author of the acclaimed Bright Red Fruit -- for #FREE tomorrow on the campus of Howard Community College.
12:30 p.m. Monteabaro Hall & streamed via Vimeo (link below).
6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Hall
All you need to know:
www.howardcc.edu/discover/art...
Our new poet laureate, Arthur Sze. "Because every U.S. poet laureate designs a special focus for their term, Sze plans to explore the art of translation, with the goal of compiling an anthology of translated poems from various languages & time periods."
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
There's a book festival in Baltimore tomorrow.
baltimorebookfest.com/full-stage-s...
