Join the Day Eight community for a poetry reading Sunday, April 19, 2:00-4:00pm at the Arts Club of Washington celebrating the conclusion of our 2026 mindfulness project and the launch of the the Mid-Atlantic Review 2025. Featuring poets Susan Mockler, Kimberly Collins, Ori Z Soltes, Regie Cabico, will read alongside Mid-Atlantic Review editors and contributors to the Mid-Atlantic Review 2025.
Space is limited and advance registration is available on eventbrite.
Day Eight’s project on mindfulness, funded in part by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Office of Community Affairs, supported events for the AAPI, Jewish, and African-American communities that occurred earlier this spring. Writing by participants will be published in the Mid-Atlantic Review 2026 and leaders in the programs are featured in this event alongside editors and contributors to the Mid-Atlantic Review 2025.
The Mid-Atlantic Review 2025 includes twenty-three poems selected by the editors from more than ten times that number published in the online magazine in the prior year. The 2025 editors of the Mid-Atlantic Review include Gregory Luce, Anne Becker, Holly Karapetkova, Regie Cabico, Serena Agusto-Cox, and Robert Bettmann. The magazine also includes:
- A selection of poems from the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section published online April and May 2025, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce. Read all poems from the Amplifying Disabled Voices section in the magazine here.
- A selection of poems from the Jewish Experience special section published online October, 2024, selected by editors Ori Z Soltes and Robert Bettmann. Read all poems from the section in the magazine here.
- A selection of poems by members of the East Rock Creek Senior Village published in the magazine connected to a workshop series supported by Creative Spark grant.
- Poems by the finalists of the DC Poet Project, including 2025 winner Malachi Byrd, Addy Allred, and Micki Topham.
- A selection of poems by Howard University students and faculty published connected to the Hitting the Ground Running event at Howard University, February 2025.
- Poems by the winner, Monica Perez-Nelson, and honorable mentions of the 2025 Luce Prize, an award recognizing exceptional early-career poets.
- Writing by youth participants in Day Eight’s summer 2025 Writing Camps.
This event will take place at the Arts Club of Washington, 2017 “I” Street NW DC, two blocks from the Foggy Bottom metro. The magazine will be available for purchase at event and is also available via Day Eight’s online bookstore here.
The Mid-Atlantic Review 2025 was made possible by individual donors to Day Eight and grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the DC Mayor’s Office of AAPI Community Affairs. The cover features artwork commissioned from Karey Kessler.
BRING YOUR BOOKS! This is a free event. To support the magazine we invite all attendees to bring any poetry or fiction books that you may no longer want as donations. The donated books will go on a big table at the event. For a $20 donation, you can then select any three books to take home. Bring a bag or box of books to support the 2025 print issue of The Mid-Atlantic Review.
The Mid-Atlantic Review 2025 contributors:
Abdulmueed Balogun Adewale · Addy Allred · Micheal Alterowitz · Beatrice Angehr-Sun · Nadia Arioli · Lisa Badner · Virginia Bell · Liora Bettmann · Dayne Blair · C L Bledsoe · Haakim Brown-Bey II · Sarah Browning · Malachi Byrd · Regie Cabico · Alex Carrigan · Abigail Carver · Nathaniel Claxton · Ellen Aronofsky Cole · Kimberly Collins · Karla Daly · Jennifer Daschel · David Ebenbach · Avishai Edenburg · Michele Evans · Maevyn Farrell · Eric Fischman · Abigail Ann Gray · Miriam Green · A’Ruah Gross · Jen Gubitz · Michael Gushue · Itara Halen · Le Hinton · Revonne Johnson · Jill Khoury · Catherine Klein · Taylor Kovach · Doren Langhorne · Phylicia Lee · Pamela Levitt · Betty Markus · Makena Metz · Susan Mockler · Adriana Moore · Kayla Nelson · Karthryn O’Driscoll · Miles Okonkwo · Monica Perez-Nelson · Penny Perry · Emily Pinkerton · Danielle Resh · Carli Robinson · Carlota Roby · Heather Bruce Satrom · Juliana Schifferes · Kathryn Schug · Barbara Schwartz · Jessica Genia Simon · Rima Shaffer · Ephraim Sommers · Laureen Summers · Summer Tate · Antreka Tladl · Pierre Ramon Thomas · Micki Topham · Schuyler Young · Pierre Ramon Thomas · Bash Worsley · Laura Hodes Zacks
This issue also includes artwork by Karey Kessler, Diana Kurz, Terence Nicholson, Qrcky, Alvaro Sanchez, Matt Sesow, Alexandra N Sherman, Alan Sislen, and Hillel Smith.