Two D.C. Poets Visit M.F.A. Reading Series, Oct. 20
October 12, 2015
Contact: University Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
The University of Baltimore’s M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts Fall Reading Series will welcome two Washington, D.C.-based poets, Derrick Weston Brown and Alan King, on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. The event will take place in the Bogomolny Room on the 5th floor of the UB Student Center, 21 W., Mt. Royal Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
Derrick Weston Brown's work has appeared in such literary journals as Warpland, Mythium, Ginsoko, DrumVoices, The Columbia Poetry Review, and in a variety of online journals. He was the first poet-in-residence at the legendary performance space known as Busboys and Poets. Brown is the founder and curator of The Nine on the Ninth, a monthly poetry series, and teaches poetry and creative writing to middle schoolers as part of the DC Creative Writing Workshop.
Alan King has been a fixture on the D.C. and Virginia poetry scene since 1999. He is the author of the 2012 book Drift, and has contributed to a range of anthologies including Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books, A Writerlicious Anthology About Food: Literal, Poetic, Imagined, Full Moon On K Street: Poems About Washington, DC, The Poetics Noire: Volume 1, Writing Outside The Lines: An Anthology of Poetry from the Wrong Side of the Tracks Riding the Paumanok Train, and numerous others.
Learn more more about the M.F.A. Reading Series and UB's Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences.