Anne Harding Woodworth
Anne Harding Woodworth, poet and playwright, is the author of seven books of poetry. Her seventh, Trouble, appeared in the fall of 2020. She also has four chapbooks. An excerpt from her chapbook The Last Gun won the COG Poetry Award and was subsequently animated (scroll down at www.cogzine.com/watch). Her one-woman play in verse, Hannah Alive, the original poetry of which is included in her new book, TROUBLE, was a finalist at the Adirondack Shakespeare Co. Festival. The play had a dramatic reading in Washington, DC, performed by actor Kimberly Schraf. Woodworth collaborated with her sister, Bundy H. Boit, on the play Somewhere Voices, which had a reading in October on Zoom performed by New Surry Theatre in Blue Hill, Maine.
Hayes Davis
Hayes Davis was born in Philadelphia, PA. He moved to the Washington, DC area in 1998 to attend the University of Maryland and take part in the broad and diverse DC writing community; while at Maryland he won an Academy of American Poets Prize and earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree. His work has been published in Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, and Toi Derricotte’s The Black Notebooks. He is a former Bread Loaf working scholar and a founding member of Cave Canem, a workshop and retreat for African American poets. He teaches literature and creative writing at Georgetown Day School, and lives in Silver Spring with his wife, poet Teri Ellen Cross, two children, and their Jack Russell terrier, Id.
Hiram Larew
Hiram Larew organized The Poetry Poster Project in 2017 to showcase Prince George’s County (MD) poets. More recently he established the Poetry X Hunger initiative to bring poetry and poets to the anti-hunger cause. His poems have been nominated for four Pushcart prizes. He lives in Anne Arundel County, MD.