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Scheduled Workshops/Events

Calendar Year 2008 Critiquing Workshops

Workshops are held at the West End Library in Washington DC in one of the meeting rooms on the second floor.

Jan 19, 2008— 2-5 PM

Feb 16, 2008—2-5 PM

Mar 15, 2008— 2-5 PM

Apr 19, 2008— 2-5 PM

May 17, 2008— 2-5 PM

June 21, 2008— 2-5 PM

July 19, 2008— 2-5 PM

August 16, 2008— 2-5 PM

Sept 20, 2008— 2-5 pm - Annual Dues of $20 due. Paid members submit poems for Fall issue.

Oct 18, 2008— 2-5 pm

Nov 15, 2008— 2-5 pm

Dec 20, 2008— 2-5 pm

Calendar Year 2008 Readings

Judith McCombs is featured in Beltway's spring 08 issue!
Beltway (http://www.beltwaypoetry.com) is the most established and prestigious of the DC area on-line journals. Subscriptions to Beltway's poetry & comprehensive info are free.

Sunday, April 27, 2008 - Poetry in the Garden @ Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, 1:30 p.m. Location: North Gardens

Celebrate National Poetry Month at Tudor Place! Join local poets Ellen Cole, Andrea Hoag, Eliza King, Claire McGoff, and Kathryn Williams for an afternoon of exhilarating poetry. After the reading find inspiration by strolling through Tudor Place?s 5 ½ acres of enchanting gardens. Free with Museum Admission.
Tudor Place Historic House and Garden
1644 31st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
202.965.0400 ext. 100
Fax: 202.965.0164
www.tudorplace.org

On Wednesday, 30 January 2008, at 7 PM, three members of the Federal Poets, DC's oldest continuous poetry workshop, read their poetry: Edna Small, Leigh A. Neithardt, and Ninie G. Syarikin.

Edna Small, a retired clinical psychologist, is a Jenny McKean Moore Fellow, and a featured reader for Iota.

Leigh A. Neithardt has published in The Little Albany Street Reader and Emm Gryner's The Secret Letters, and read twice at Rutgers University. She is working on "Anodyne" and America Southwest poems.

Ninie G. Syarikin, from Indonesia, is a translator, interpreter, and VOA broadcast journalist. Her poetry appears at her House of Creative Writing website, www.houseofcreativewriting.com

Kensington Row Bookshop Poetry Readings, 3786 Howard Avenue, Kensington MD 20895. 301 949 9416. Refreshments.

The Federal Poets, c/o 9039 Sligo Parkway #1409, Silver Spring, MD 20901