2020
- August – 2020 Book Awards for Promise and Achievement in the Language Arts
- February – CANCELLED – Power of Voice: A Newsman’s Take on Poetry
2019
- December – Alice McDermott and O’Malley’s March headline HoCoPoLitSo’s 42nd Annual Irish Evening
- August – A Harlem Renaissance Speakeasy: Featuring Live Jazz and Poetry from the 1920s
- May – Joint Anniversary Celebration HoCoPoLitSo and Columbia Film Society
- March — Poetry of Wit and Wonder HoCoPoLitSo’s Eleventh Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival
2018
- December — Vona Groake to read at HoCoPoLitSo’s 41st Irish Evening of Music and Poetry on February 8, 2019
- December – HoCoPoLitSo Establishes Advisory Group
- September — HoCoPoLitSo Establishes Writers Bureau
- August — HoCoPoLitSo’s 45th Season Opens with Poetic Trio
2017
- December — Mike McCormack to read at HoCoPoLitSo’s 40th Irish Evening of Music and Poetry
- December — The Fierce Revolution of Marilyn Chin – HoCoPoLitSo’s Tenth Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival
- October — Laurie Frankel to speak at HoCoPoLitSo’s Annual Lucille Clifton Reading Series
- February — Tyehimba Jess to read at HoCoPoLitSo’s Ninth Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival
2016
- December — Belinda McKeon to read at HoCoPoLitSo’s 39th Irish Evening of Music and Poetry
- October — Carolyn Forché to speak at HoCoPoLitSo’s Annual Lucille Clifton Reading Series
- March — Marie Howe to read at HoCoPoLitSo’s 7th Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival
2015
- December — Eamon Grennan, 38th Irish Evening of Music and Poetry
- June — Join the World Poetry Party
- April — Dominique Morisseau’s SUNSET BABY – A Special Presentation with Discussion/Discount
- April — American Routes: Dinaw Mengestu, from Addis Ababa to Columbia (MD)
- January — 2015 Anthology Launch
- January — Irish Evening 2015 with Emma Donoghue
2014
- September — Howard Bank’s Martinez Joins HoCoPoLitSo Board
- May — Local Author Katia D. Ulysse Previews Her Novel at the Columbia Festival of the Arts
- February — 36th Annual Irish Evening with Paula Meehan and Theo Dorgan
2013
- December — Blackbird Poetry Festival Features Billy Collins, “The Most Popular Poet in America”
- March — Howard County Students Recognized for Literary Achievement, May 2013
- April — Blackbird Poetry Festival’s Nightbird Reading Features Rives, Rachel Eliza Griffiths; Music by Rocket Sled
2012
- August — Derrick Weston Brown, 2012-2013 Writer in Residence
- August — HoCoPoLitSo Welcomes Mission Continues Fellow Sebastian Warren
- September — Celebrating the Freedom to Read during National Banned Book Week with Michael Dirda and Jeannette Seaver
- January — 34th Annual Irish Evening with Hugo Hamilton, a musical performance by The Narrowbacks and Traditional Irish Stepdancing
2011
- November — Writer in Residence – Sandra Beasley
- September — Terrance Hayes and Tara Betts
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