Category Archives: Reading

The Event of the Season: Patricia Smith & Sage String Quartet

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

The Sound and Fury of New Orleans Thursday, June 27, 7:30 p.m. Monteabaro Recital Hall, The Horowitz Center at Howard Community College A look at Katrina New Orleans through a selection of Smith’s Blood Dazzler poems set to the music … Continue reading →

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HoCoPoLitSo Recommends Free Readings: Pinsky, LPR, Artists’ Gallery

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

It’s happening again, but don’t worry… you’ll be home in time for the Super Bowl. In their annual Super Bowl Sunday event, Frederick Reads, the Weinberg Center for the Arts, and the C. Burr Artz Trust will host a free … Continue reading →

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Poems of Pain, Times of Joy — Toi Derricotte and Lucille Clifton

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

Toi Derricotte’s poems speak pain plainly. A wince from long ago when her father dangled her by her hair for failing to clean her plate. The deep ache of her grandmother trying to pass for white in Saks Fifth Avenue … Continue reading →

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HoCoPoLitSo Welcomes 2012 PEN/Voelcker Winner for Poetry

Posted on October 19, 2012 by

Toi Derricotte Celebrates Lucille Clifton Toi Derricotte, 2012 PEN/Voelcker Winner for Poetry, will read for HoCoPoLitSo 8 pm, November 2, at the Horowitz Center for Visual and Performing Arts’ Monteaboro Recital Hall on the Howard Community College campus. Tickets are … Continue reading →

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Banned Book Profile: Naked Lunch

Posted on September 28, 2012 by

Would you have published this banned book? Book:  Naked Lunch Author:  William S. Burroughs Controversy:   First published in 1959 by Olympia Press in France, Naked Lunch (initially misprinted as The Naked Lunch) was banned in the United States because of … Continue reading →

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Freedom to Read – Would You Print a Banned Book?

Posted on September 11, 2012 by

Freedom to Read – Would You Print a Banned Book? Book:  Tropic of Cancer Author:  Henry Miller Controversy:   First published in 1934 by Obelisk Press, Tropic of Cancer was banned in the United States for obscenity (graphic sexual content).  U.S. … Continue reading →

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Check It Out: The Baltimore Sun Previews This Year’s Blackbird Poetry Festival

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

The Baltimore Sun‘s Explore Howard website has previewed this year’s Blackbird Poetry Festival. The article reports: HoCoPoLitSo executive director Carla Du Pree says her group “promises a night of poetry, slam and song from contemporary poets who aren’t afraid to … Continue reading →

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This Thursday: The 4th Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

Featuring the Nightbird Reading, Poetry in Harmony, and a day of workshops, talks, and readings, even the “Poetry Police,” the 4th Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival returns Thursday, April 26th, to the campus of Howard Community College, this year presenting Kim … Continue reading →

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30 Things You Might Do To Celebrate National Poetry Month

Posted on April 1, 2012 by

Read a poem. Out loud. Feel it the sound of it move through you and into the air. Watch and listen to Billy Collins’ Ted Talk. Practice the math of counting syllables by writing a 5-7-5 haiku. Follow HoCoPoLitSo on … Continue reading →

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National Book Critics Award Winner Edith Pearlman to Read in Columbia, Maryland, June 27th

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

Now that Edith Pearlman has won the National Book Critics Award for fiction, what is she going to do? She’s going to visit Columbia and read from her acclaimed work, that’s what. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, June 27, 2012 … Continue reading →

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