Saturday May 11 more than sixty attendees voted to select poet Kevin Wiggins the winner of the 2019 DC Poet Project in an event at the Anacostia Branch DC Public Library.  Through his win the poet was offered a book contract and Day Eight will be publishing a book of his poetry later this summer. […]

Come to the culminating event May 11th to hear them read, and to help select the winner. The 2019 DC Poet Project Finalists are: Kevin Wiggins, Antwone Ross, Kim B. Miller, Jola Lawal, and Quanasia McKoy!! The finalists were selected by featuring poets in the spring readings series: E. Ethelbert Miller, Venus Thrash, Regie Cabico, […]

The first event in the 2019 DC Poet Project poetry reading series and open mic competition is Saturday March 9, at the RISE Center. This special event celebrating LGBT activist and DC poet Essex Hemphill features poets Regie Cabico and C. Thomas, with guest Honorary Poets Councilmember Trayon White, Philip Pannell, Marvin Bowser, and Ron […]