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Fred Joiner, poet  

October 29 – November 20

Fred Joiner is a poet living in Washington, DC's Historic Anacostia neighborhod. He has given poetry readings at Busboys and Poets, Grace Church, and Howard University, among other places, and his poems have appeared in Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, and Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora.

Reading from his work with a presentation November 8, 8:15 PM.  Blackistone Room.

Rick Peabody, poet and writer

February 5  - February 17

Rick Peabody  is an author and poet based in Washington, D.C.  He is one of the founding editors for Gargoyle Magazine and editor for the anthology series Mondo. He also runs a small press called Paycock Press which has released a number of anthologies and works by individual authors.  Peabody's own fiction and poetry is often set in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding region.

Reading from his work, Wednesday, February 13  8:15 P.M. DPC

Fiction Writing Workshop February 16, 2:30 - 4:30 PM.  Blackistone Room, AH.

Joe Hall, poet

February 20 – February 29

Alumni Joe Hall ’04  received his BA in English from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and is currently enrolled in the MFA poetry program at George Mason University.  His poems have been publish or are forth coming in The Squaw Valley Review, The Silt Reader, The Chesapeake Reader, and Versal.

David Hagstrom, writer

March 2 – March 9

David Hagstrom has been an educator for the past 50 years, currently serving as a facilitator for retreats for educators and ministers.  His first book is appeared in 2004, a memoir entitled, From Outrageous to Inspired; How to Create a Community of Leaders in our Schools.  His current work emphasizes that it is possible to be true to one’s true self in the work world.

Caitlin Newcomber, Poet

March 13 – 24

Caitlin Newcomber earned her BA in English and Philosophy from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and is a current MFA candidate in fiction at The Ohio State University.  She recently received an honorable mention for the Academy of American Poets Award.  She is currently working on a linked story collection of re-imagined fairy tales and her first collection of poems.

Yael Flusberg,  writer and poet

March 27 – April 7

Yael Flusberg  is a Washington, D.C.-based author and community activist who has been creating prose and poetry for the last ten years. Her creative work has been published in such journals as The Potomac Review, Lilith, and Gargoyle. In 1999, she co-founded Sol & Soul, a D.C.-based non-profit organization that seeks to bring together artists and community members in order to create, produce, and present artistic works with a social conscience.

Writing Workshop 2:30-4:30  Saturday, April 12  Blackistone Room AA

Reading from her poetry, April 16, DPC.