Frederick Book Arts Center POETRY: Mandel, Joselow, Winch
At Frederick Book Arts Center
Saturday Nov 7th at 4pm
Tom Mandel is the author/co-author of more than 20 books/chapbooks including Realism, Letters of the Law, To the Cognoscenti, Letter to Poetry, and The Grand Piano. A new book, Simple Syrup, is forthcoming in 2027. His work is widely anthologized, including In the American Tree; The Norton Anthology of Post-Modern Verse; Best American Poetry; and 49+1: Poètes Americain. Born in Chicago, Tom was educated in its jazz and blues clubs and at the University of Chicago. He has lived in New York, Paris, San Francisco, and (now) Washington DC. For more see http://www.tommandel.com
Beth Joselow has published a dozen poetry books and chapbooks. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review and other publications. Former literary editor of The Washington Review of the Arts, she has taught writing at The Corcoran College of Art + Design, The Writer's Center and to students ages 8 to 80.
The son of Irish immigrants, poet, musician, and author Terence Winch was born in the Bronx, New York City. He later moved to Washington, DC, where he became known as one of the “Mass Transit” poets of the early 1970s. Winch’s first collection of poetry, Irish Musicians/American Friends (1985), won an American Book Award. Winch’s second collection, The Great Indoors (1994), was chosen by poet Barbara Guest to receive the Columbia Book Award in 1996. Winch’s recent books of poetry include That Ship Has Sailed (2023, Pitt Poetry Series) and It Is As If Desire (2024, Hanging Loose Press). Winch has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing. His work has appeared in the Paris Review, New American Writing, the New Republic, American Poetry Review, and the New York Quarterly as well as anthologies such as The Oxford Book of American Poetry and six Best American Poetry collections.
Free Admission - Everyone is welcome
