Stephanie Strickland & Camille-Yvette Welsch

On Monday, September 14, 2020, The Word Works and The Writer’s Center will feature poets Stephanie Strickland and Camille-Yvette Welsch. Café Muse opens at 7 pm with refreshments and classical guitar by Michael Davis; readings begin at 7:30.

STEPHANIE STRICKLAND is the award-winning author of nine books of poetry, most recently Ringing the Changes (Counterpath Press, 2020) and How the Universe Is Made: Poems New & Selected (Ahsahta, 2019), and the co-author of eleven works of digital literature, including slippingglimpse (2007), House of Trust (2014), and Hours of the Night (2016). Her digital work has been awarded the Salt Hill Hypertext Prize, a Best of the Net award, and two &NOW Awards for Best Innovative Writing. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, she lives in New York, NY.

CAMILLE-YVETTE WELSCH is a poet, award-winning teacher, and the Reviews Editor at Literary Mama. She is the author of The Four Ugliest Children in Christendom (The Word Works, 2019), her debut full-length collection, and the chapbook Full (Dancing Girl Press). Her work has appeared in Cream City Review, Zone 3, Poems2Go, Radar Poetry, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, Split Lip, Menacing Hedge, among numerous others. A Pushcart Prize nominated poet, she is a Teaching Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University, where she ran the Red Weather Reading Series for many years and now directs the High School Writing Day at Penn State.

The Word Works is a nonprofit literary organization publishing contemporary poetry in artistic editions and sponsoring programs for over 40 years. The Writer’s Center has been hosting and offering literary programs in the D.C. area for over 40 years as well.

Coming: Monday, October 5, 2020, Café Muse will feature poets Nils Michals and Sami Miranda.