Find Words and Wine at the Library

You’ll find more than books and words at the Catonsville Library tonight. Join us for Words & Wine hosted by the Friends of the Catonsville Library. Tickets are $30, and the social event offers a variety of wines, gourmet cheeses from around the world, jazz guitar, and the chance to mingle with local authors like Jason Tinney, Rafael Alvarez, Jill Morrow, Danuta Kosk-Kosicka, and me!

Learn more about the event at www.catonsvillelibraryfriends.org/

And, don’t forget that the final Lit and Art of the 2015 season takes place this Sunday in October—this weekend! Featured readers include D.R. Belz, Shirley J. Brewer, Katherine Cottle, Barbara DeCesare, Tom Glenn, and Barrett Warner. Music by Limestone Connection, art by Manzar, and free refreshments—plus open mic. Join us n Sunday, October 25 from 2 to 5 p.m. at The Watermark Gallery, 100 South Charles Street, second floor of the Bank of America Building right across from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Learn more at www.facebook.com/groups/LitAndArt.

And see you for some wine and cheese and words tonight at the Catonsville Library; learn more at www.catonsvillelibraryfriends.org/

 

Lit and Art at Baltimore Book Fest

It’s that season again—time for the Baltimore Book Festival. It’s the Mid-Atlantic Region’s biggest literary celebration! The event takes place from Friday, September 26 at noon to Sunday, September 28 at 6 p.m.

Once again, the Lit and Art Reading Series has a place at the Baltimore Book Festival’s CityLit Stage—the hottest stage of the festival! Our program takes place at 2 p.m. on Sunday, September 26 and features Tom Glenn, Eric D. Goodman, Holly Morse-Ellington, Nitin Jagdish, Nathan Leslie, Liz Moser, and Manzar of the Watermark Gallery. The event will be emceed by NPR’s Aaron Henkin, whose program “The Signal” takes listeners on a weekly tour of Baltimore’s cultural landscape.

Other featured writers participating in this year’s festival include Alice McDermott, Rafael Alvarez, Jessica Anya Blau, Sid Gold, Jen Michalski, Lalita Noronha, and a multitude of others.

Learn more about this year’s Baltimore Book Festival at www.baltimorebookfestival.org.

Go right to the CityLit Stage!

www.baltimorebookfestival.org/schedule/location/3/CityLit-Stage

Rafael Alvarez Joins Lit and Art

Join us on April 27 and discover “the best excuse to get lit on a Sunday afternoon in Baltimore.”

Well into its seventh year, the Lit & Art reading series showcases local, national, and international talent—fiction, poetry, non-fiction, memoir, original art, live music—all topped off with wine, refreshments, and conversation.

Featured readers on April 27 include Rafael Alvarez, Ann Bracken, Barbara Diehl, Toby Devens, and Danuta Kosk-Kosicka. Live Pop-Grass music of Jacob Panic, original art by Manzar, and wine and refreshments will fill out the program.

Hosted by Baltimore authors Nitin Jagdish and Eric D. Goodman, the event takes place at The Watermark Gallery at 100 S. Charles Street, across from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in the BOA building, and takes place from 2 to 5 p.m. Bring a bit of your own work to share at open mic!

Learn more about the Watermark Gallery at the online gallery.

www.watermarkartgallery.com

Find out more about Lit and Art and the featured talent at the Lit and Art Facebook Page.

www.facebook.com/groups/LitAndArt

Words and Wine Benefit Catonsville Library

Don’t miss the next annual Words and Wine Benefit at the Catonsville Library this Friday, October 11 at 7 p.m. at the Catonsville Library. Tickets are $25 and include not only the opportunity to mingle and chat with some of your favorite local authors as you listen to jazz guitar, but also all the wine you can drink and cheese you can eat. (And you can certainly get your money’s worth out of the wine and cheese—and help the library at the same time!)

This year’s authors include Jen Michalski, Rafael Alvarez, Rob Kasper, Dan Toomy, and a host of others. My wife and I will be there with copies of Tracks and Flightless Goose.

Learn more at www.catonsvillelibraryfriends.org

And don’t forget … The next Lit and Art takes place this Sunday, October 13 from 2 to 5 p.m. at Watermark Gallery, 100 S. Charles St., across from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. See the previous post for more details.

Big Event for Little Patuxent

Writers published in the latest issue of Little Patuxent Review will read from their work at the “Form & Structure” release at 2 p.m. on Saturday, January 16.

The reading takes place at the Kittamaqundi Community, 5410 Leaftreader Way in Columbia.

Admission to the poetry/fiction reading event is free. The newest issue of Little Patuxent Review will be available for $10.

The publication features an interview with and poems by Donald Hall, the Library of Congress’ fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in 2006.

Reading their work at the event will be Rafael Alvarez, Nitin Jagdish, David Fry, Katherine Cottle, Barbara Westwood Diehl, Danuta Hinc, Christine Higgins, Danuta E. Kosk-Kosica, Lewis Levenberg, Natalie Lobe, Airin Miller, Lenett Partlow-Myrick, Madeleine Mysko, Ellen Orner and Truth Thomas.

Learn more at www.poetryinbaltimore.com/smf/index.php?topic=23619.0