Day Eight is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2025 DC Poet Project competition: Malachi Byrd, Amoja Sumler, Addy Lugo, and Micki Topham. The annual open-to-all poetry competition, currently in its ninth year, is designed to support local poets. The prize for the overall winner is a book contract with Day Eight. Past books […]
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Day Eight is pleased to invite our community to an online reading of poems published in our October, 2024, Jewish Experience special section of the Mid-Atlantic Review. This event will include reading by twenty-three poets published in the section, hosted by editors Ori Z. Soltes and Robert Bettmann and guest host Rabbi Sarah Tasman. Register […]
Day Eight is pleased to provide a special opportunity for participants in our pre-professional writing program for women and girls: a youth and parent/guardian pair poetry workshop. This unique event, modeled after our Back to School with Joy workshops, will take place Sunday, April 6th, from 2:00-4:00pm at the Shepherd Park Library. Recognizing the challenge […]