Tue, Sep 10
|Columbia
Wilde Readings - September
The Wilde Reading Series, presented by HoCoPoLitSo, is a free, once-monthly literary reading series held from September–June that provides local writers— poets, fiction, and non-fiction— a chance to share their work with the community.
Time & Location
Sep 10, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Columbia, 6955 Oakland Mills Rd E, Columbia, MD 21045, USA
About the event
Queen Takes Book is delighted to host the Wilde Readings Series this year, and we hope you can join us at our first event for the season on Tuesday, September 10 at 7pm. Featured guests are Novelist Austin S. Camacho and poet Grace Cavalieri, and the evening will also include an open mic session.
About Our Guests
Austin S Camacho
Austin S. Camacho is the author of eight novels about Washington DC-based private eye Hannibal Jones, five in the Stark and O’Brien international thriller series, and the detective novel, Beyond Blue. His short stories have been featured in several anthologies. He is featured in the Edgar nominated African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey, and helps produce the Creatures, Crimes & Creativity literary conference here in Columbia.
Grace Cavalieri
Grace Cavalieri was Maryland’s tenth Poet Laureate (2018-2024.) She founded and still produces “the Poet and the Poem” for public radio, now from the Library of Congress, celebrating 47 years on-air in 2024. She holds two Allen Ginsberg Awards; The Paterson Award; the AWP George Garrett, Columbia, Bordighera, AAUW Awards; National Commission on Working Women Award, and the CPB Silver Medal, plus others. She’s an Academy of American Poets Fellow. Her podcasts were sent to the moon.
Please spread the word - bring your friends, family, and students. All are welcome. We encourage you to participate in the open mic. Please prepare no more than five minutes of performance time/two poems. Sign up for the open mic in advance by filling out this online form.
Light refreshments will be served. Books by both featured authors and open mic readers will be available for sale.