SNEAK PEAK at the
2018 Splendid Wake program,
Sunday, March 18,
2018 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Gelman Library,
George Washington University
Master of Ceremonies: Henry
Crawford
Henry
Crawford is a poet and software engineer living and writing in the DC area. He
is a co-director of the Cafe Muse poetry series and the author of American Software, his first collection
of poetry. Visit HenryCrawfordPoetry.com to
see a sampling of his work.
Kim Roberts: Speaker
Kim Roberts is the author of five books of poems,
most recently The Scientific Method (WordTech Editions, 2017). She
edited the anthology Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC
(Plan B Press, 2010), and co-edits the journal Beltway Poetry
Quarterly, and the web exhibit DC Writers’ Homes. Her book of
walking tours, A Literary Guide to Washington, DC from Francis Scott Key to
Zora Neale Hurston, will be released this spring from the University of
Virginia Press, covers the history of DC’s writers from the city’s founding to
the beginnings of modernism. Ms.
Roberts will speak about Jazz Age writers of DC, focusing on Langston Hughes,
Georgia Douglas Johnson, Sinclair Lewis, Jean Toomer, and Zora Neale
Hurston. http://www.kimroberts.org.
A.B. Spellman: Speaker
A.B.
Spellman is an author, poet, critic, and lecturer. He has published numerous
books and articles on the arts, including Art
Tatum: A Critical Biography (a
chapbook), The Beautiful Days (poetry),
and Four Jazz Lives (University of
Michigan Press). His poetry collection, Things I Must Have Known, was published
by Coffee House Press. Mr. Spellman has served on numerous arts panels
including the Rockefeller Panel on Arts, Education and Americans; the Awards
Panel of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP); the
Africa Diaspora Advisory Group, the Jazz Advisory Group, and the Advisory Group
on the African-American Museum for the Smithsonian Institution. In
recognition of Spellman’s commitment and service to jazz, the National
Endowment for the Arts in 2005 named one of its prestigious Jazz Masters awards
the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy. Mr. Spellman will share
a few poems and speak about poetry & jazz in the work of performance poets
during the Black Arts Movement.
Truth
Thomas:
Speaker
Truth Thomas is a
singer-songwriter and poet born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in
Washington, DC. He is the founder of Cherry Castle Publishing and studied
creative writing at Howard University under Dr. Tony Medina. Thomas earned his
MFA in poetry at New England College. He is the Poetry Editor of Tidal Basin Review and Editor-in-Chief
of The Skinny Poetry Journal. His collections include: Party of Black, A Day of Presence, Bottle of Life, My TV is Not the
Boss of Me (a children's book, illustrated by Cory Thomas) and Speak Water, winner of the 2013 NAACP
Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry. A former
writer-in-residence for the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society
(HoCoPoLitSo), his poems have appeared in over 100 publications, including The 100 Best African American Poems
(edited by Nikki Giovanni). Thomas has multiple Pushcart Prize nominations to
his credit and is the creator of the "Skinny" (a fixed form of poetry
that continues to blossom in international appeal). Mr. Thomas will discuss
the power of poetic brevity, rules, and rich refrains of imagery that abide in
the fixed-form framework of the Skinny. Visit http://truththomas.com/
and http://www.cherrycastlepublishing.com/
Maritza
Rivera: Speaker
Maritza Rivera is a Puerto
Rican poet and Army veteran who has lived in Rockville, MD since 1994. She
founded the weekly Mariposa Poetry Series, which ran from September 1999 to
October 2002 in College Park, MD and hosts the annual Mariposa Poetry Retreat
at the Capital Retreat Center in Waynesboro, PA . Maritza is the author of About You, a collection of poetry “for
women and the men they love”; A Mother’s
War, written during her son’s two tours in Iraq; Baker’s Dozen, a limited edition in the Brazilian Cordel tradition
created for the 2013 Seeing Food art exhibit in Silver Spring, MD and Twenty-One: Blackjack Poems. Maritza is
also a supporter of the Memorial Day Writers Project (MDWP); participated in
the Warrior Poetry Project at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
in Bethesda, MD; and served on the Board of Directors of Split This Rock. She
was the recipient of a 2012 BID International Writing Fellowship in Bahia,
Brazil, and FY 2016 grant recipient of the Arts and Humanities Council of
Montgomery County. Maritza Rivera is also the publisher of Casa Mariposa Press.
Ms. Rivera will speak about the invention of Blackjack Poetry
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