The editors of the Mid-Atlantic Review and faculty of the English department at Howard University are pleased to invite the Day Eight community to a shared poetry workshop, poetry reading, and poetry open mic, Saturday February 22nd at the Howard University Writing Center. The events are hosted by Mid-Atlantic Review contributor and Howard University faculty Susan Mockler.
The poetry workshop, 1:00 to 2:15pm, will be led by Howard University faculty Tony Medina and Kimberly Collins. Following the workshop a poetry reading featuring the workshop leaders, Mid-Atlantic Review editors Robert Bettmann, Gregory Luce, Holly Karapetkova, Anne Becker, and Sean Felix, Amuchechukwu Nwafor, and Dominic McDonald, will occur 2:30 to 4:00pm.
Dr. Tony Medina is Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University. He earned his B.A. in English from Baruch College, City University of New York and his M.A. and Ph. D. in African American and American Literature as well as Creative Writing from Binghamton University, State University of New York. Author/editor of seventeen books for adults and young readers (including Committed to Breathing, Follow-up Letters to Santa from Kids who Never Got a Response, I and I, Bob Marley, My Old Man Was Always on the Lam, Broke on Ice, An Onion of Wars and The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems), Medina’s poetry, fiction, essays and reviews appear in over one hundred publications and on a number of CD compilations.
Kimberly A. Collins MFA is a Poet, Callaloo Fellow, Pushcart finalist, and Master Instructor in Howard University’s First Year Writing and Poetry Program. She is the author of two books of poetry, Bessie’s Resurrection (Indolent Books 2018) and Slightly Off Center (1993) as well as a collection of essays Choose You Wednesday Wisdom to Wake Your Soul (2017). Her early work appeared in the seminal anthology edited by Ras Baraka and Kevin Powell, In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers. Her most recent poetry appears in: It’s the Honey (2024) edited by Kwame Alexander, The 100-year house (2022), Beltway Quarterly (2019), Pittsburg Poetry Review, The Berkeley Review and more.
The Mid-Atlantic Review is a literary magazine published by the non-profit, Day Eight. View the literary magazine site here.
To register in advance, email Susan.Mockler <at> Howard.edu.