First Saturday in April- Celebrating National Poetry Month!

Apr 1

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Saturday April 4th from 12-6pm

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? Did you also know that Saturday is International Slow Art Day? Help us celebrate at FBAC with a day of poetry and prose readings and poetry related printing activities!

12-2pm - Typewriters! use one of ours or bring your own (BYOT) and sit down with like minded writers and create something special

2pm - Annie Storr history lecture on women in bookbinding at Hull House in Chicago, IL

3pm - Greg Robison reading his newest "Impartial Observer", a newspaper written and hand set by Greg quarterly

4pm - 10 Seconds of Silence - Poetry readings by local poets from Baltimore: David Beaudouin, Jennifer Keith, Eleanor Lewis, Thea Brown, and Don Berger

Print a poem on one of our antique letterpresses

Print a Zine with P22 blocks on the Showcard Press