Celebrating local poetry in the 2021 Poet Project reading series

The DC Poet Project continues its mission of celebrating DC poets in 2021. Founded in 2017, The DC Poet Project is a poetry reading series and open-to-all poetry competition culminating in the publication of a new book of poetry by a DC author. Read more about the series and past winners here. Through support from […]

Book launch reading for Laura McCarty’s Just One Swallow Thursday January 7, 2021

Join the Day Eight community to celebrate publication of Laura McCarty’s book, Just One Swallow, Thursday January 7th, 7-8:00pm. Rsvp to the event on facebook, and attend on zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88204889642 EARLY RESPONSE TO JUST ONE SWALLOW: “A credit to the narrative tradition; and has no superior.” – Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate “A splendid read.” – […]

Falling Leaves: an Interfaith Anthology on the Topic of Consolation and Loss to publish Dec 10

Day Eight is proud to announce the forthcoming, December 10, 2020, publication of Falling Leaves: an Interfaith Anthology on the Topic of Consolation and Loss, edited by Susan Meehan and Robert Bettmann. The book gathers more than 40 poems by DC area poets on the topic, organized into sections on New Prayer, Acceptance, Loss, and […]