Gratuita para todos y honorarios de $250 disponibles para que participen los poetas afrolatinx de DC – Free for all and $250 honoraria available for DC afrolatin poets to participate. Day Eight and the Mariposa Poetry Retreat are partnering on a capacity-building program for area poets to occur April 15, 2023 from 11am to 4pm. […]
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Day Eight’s 2023 DC Poet Project—a poetry series and open mic competition with the ultimate prize of a $1,000 book contract—begins Friday January 20, 2023. The 2023 series will feature exceptional DC-area poets in five reading series events. Each event includes 25 to 30 minutes of poetry by the featured poets, and equal time for […]
Day Eight is pleased announce several opportunities for the public to hear live readings from Diaspora Café: D.C., an anthology of Afro-LatinX poetry edited by Jeffrey Banks and Maritza Rivera. Diaspora Café: D.C. was released August 1, 2022, and initial press includes coverage and reviews in Washington Independent Review of Books, Latin Opinion Baltimore, Hola […]