Poet-a-Tete with featured poet Kwame Alexander

Thursday, September 25, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM · Add to Calendar

Ebenezers Coffeehouse

Featured this month: Kwame Alexander is a poet, publisher, and an award-winning producer of literary programs.  A former student of Nikki Giovanni (VA Tech), he has written for television, the stage and authored ten books including the best-selling “Do The Write Thing: 7 Steps to Publishing Success”, “Dancing Naked on the Floor: poems and essays”, “Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur” and most recently a young adult title, “Crush: Love Poems”. He speaks, and conducts writing/publishing workshops at schools and conferences throughout the country. Alexander resides in the Washington, DC area, where he serves as the President of Book-in-a-Day, a literacy program that teaches and inspires youth in the writing and publishing process. He is the producer of several book festivals, including the Antigua International Literary Festival, and the Capital BookFest presented by The Washington Post. The “Kwame Alexander Papers”, a collection of his writings, correspondence, and other professional and personal writings is held at the George Washington University Gelman Library.

Anybody can participate in Poêt-à-tête.  This is the place to bring your poetic creations, or someone else’s and read them to an encouraging, appreciative audience.  If you have not yet experienced Poet-a-tete, come see us soon.

Performer sign-ups at 7:15pm.

Contact:  poetatete@yahoo.com

Cost: No cover