Category Archives: Updates and News

Arkipeligos of Queer Resistance: A Queer Filipino Panel and Workshop at Global Pride 2025

Join the Day Eight community at World Pride, Saturday, May 31, 2025 from 10-11am at the MLK central branch library, 901 G St NW, DC, for a queer Filipino literary panel, reading, and workshop, hosted and moderated by Regie Cabico with Reg Ledesma and Nico Penaranda. This event is produced through support from the Mayor’s […]

Announcing the 2025 DC Poet Project finalists

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 […]

Reading of New Poems Reflecting the Jewish Experience

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 […]