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Words out Loud: June Poetry Reading and Open-Mic

Location Modena Reserve, 10540 Metropolitan Avenue, Kensington, MD
Date Sunday, June 8, 2025 at 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Duration   1 hours, 30 minutes
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Featuring David Ebenbach and Patricia Davis-Muffett.

David Ebenbach is the author of 10 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, winners of such awards as the Juniper Prize and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, among others. His most recent poetry collection, What's Left to Us by Evening, was described as "made of equal parts grit and tenderness....behind the world’s tough machinery is an undeniable beauty, and these poems are made by a poet skilled enough to help us see it" (Matthew Olzmann).

Patricia Davis-Muffett holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota and is author of the chapbook Alchemy of Yeast and Tears. Her work has won honors including first place in
the Erskine J. Poetry Prize, and placing multiple times in the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest (selected by Marge Piercy). She has received a Pushcart nomination and appeared in Best New Poets and has a poem forthcoming in Best American Poetry. She lives in Rockville, Maryland.

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