“DC Celebrates Whitman: 150 Years of Leaves of Grass”

Our next event takes place on Thursday, April 7 at 7:00 pm, when David Bergman, Myra Sklarew, and Rosemary Winslow will read their poetry in a tribute to Whitman’s living legacy. Join us at Chapters Literary Books, 445 11th Street NW, Metro Center neighborhood, DC. Admission is free. For directions or more information: (202) 737-5553.

Want a sneak preview? Read works by these authors from The Whitman Issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly:
David Bergman
http://washingtonart.com/beltway/bergman.html
Myra Sklarew
http://washingtonart.com/beltway/sklarew2.html
Rosemary Winslow
http://washingtonart.com/beltway/winslow.html

Marc Fischer, writing in a recent Washington Post article, wrote that Rosemary Winslow’s poem “Foxes” “…summons Whitmanesque images of waving grasses and immeasurable heavens playing against contemporary scenes of piercing headlamps and the search for respite from artificial light.