Matthew Bailey Creates Poet Portrait Series for Day Eight

Matthew Bailey’s passion is creating environmental portraits, images where a narrative is expressed by both the individual and landscape. To help celebrate Day Eight’s forthcoming anthology, The Forgotten River, Bailey has created a series of ten portraits of area poets. Born and raised in the District of Columbia, Matthew recently established a new home in […]

Anacostia Swim Club member anthology

Day Eight is excited to announce forthcoming publication of a nature-themed anthology featuring works by sixteen poets and four visual artists. The volume was designed to celebrate a future in which the Anacostia River—once one of the most polluted rivers in the United States—will be swimmable once again. The anthology examines the human relationship to […]

Announcing the 2021 DC Poet Project Winner

On Saturday, May 22nd at 7pm, more than 130 zoom participants watched live performances by the 2021 DC Poet Project finalists and voted Jenn Koiter as the series’ winner. Because of the ongoing pandemic Day Eight made the decision to keep the culminating reading a live virtual event, as prior events in the 2021 series. […]