INTERSECTIONS @Honfluer (Wednesday, July 18th, 7:30PM) featuring Sarah Browning, Jehanne Dubrow and Carly Sachs

Hello Lovers of Poetry, Art and Music!

First I want to thank you all for your support of poetry and art in Anacostia. It is our hope that we can continue to count on your support of INTERSECTIONS, The American Poetry Museum and the Honfleur Gallery.

If you missed our last reading on June 20th with Carolyn Joyner and Melissa Tuckey you missed a great time. Melissa drew us into her world of contrasts with some new poems and poems from her newly published chapbook Rope as Witness available at http://www.puddinghouse.com/. Carolyn Joyner shared with us some meditative and spiritual poems, in which she made use of formalists poetic structures (sonnet, pantoum, villanelle ) yet infused with the vernacular and the concerns of the everyday people.

INTERSECTIONS took a break on the 4th of July to contemplate and celebrate the meaning of independence, we invite you to bring your independence poems (written either by you or someone else and share them during the Open Mic segment of INTERSECTIONS on Wednesday July 18th at 7:30pm, when INTERSECTIONS welcomes: Sarah Browning, author of the just released Whiskey in the Garden of Eden; Carly Sachs, author of the steam sequence, which won the 2006 Washington Writers' Publishing House first book prize and Jehanne Dubrow, author of a collection of Holocaust poetry, THE PROMISED BRIDE, which will be published by Finishing Line Press later this summer.

In addition to all of this great poetry you should also take the time to enjoy the ANACOSTIA EXPOSED exhibit that is on display now through July 28th. It features the photography of Northern Irish photographer Mervyn Smyth and the the poetry of Fred Joiner (that's me!!!), Tony Medina, Kyle Dargan, Kathryn Richey, Derrick Weston-Brown, Alan King, Rosetta Thurman, Marlene Hawthorne Thomas and Abdul Ali.

As always, the Reading Series will conclude with a discussion and open mic session. Get there early to reserve your spot.

Please also keep in mind that INTERSECTIONS happens every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month!

INTERSECTIONS is held at the Honfleur Gallery located at 1241 Good Hope Rd SE in Washington DC., 202-889-5000 x 141. Feel free to peruse the gallery and take in the artwork.
Fore more information, questions or to send a query to read at INTERSECTIONS please email dc (dot) intersections (at) gmail (dot) com.

More info on INTERSECTIONS July 18th's readers:

Sarah Browning is the author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology and coordinates the group of the same name. She is the recipient of an individual artist fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the People Before Profits Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Sycamore Review, The Literary Review, and Shenandoah. She was Guest Editor of The Wartime Issue of Beltway. She lives in Washington DC with her husband and son.

Jehanne Dubrow was born in Italy and grew up in Yugoslavia, Zaire, Poland, Belgium, Austria, and the United States. She is a Ph.D. candidate in creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is currently as a Sosland Foundation Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review, Gulf Coast, The New England Review, and Poetry Northwest. A chapbook of Holocaust poetry, THE PROMISED BRIDE, will be published by Finishing Line Press later this summer.

Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Her first book of poems, the steam sequence won the 2006 Washington Writers' Publishing House first book prize. With Reb Livingston, she curates Lolita and Gilda's Burlesque Poetry Hour at Bar Rouge. She is the editor of the why and later, an anthology of poems that women have written about rape and sexual assault, which is forthcoming from deep cleveland press.

Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Alimentum, Another Chicago Magazine, Beltway Quarterly Review, Coconut, CrossRoads, MiPoesias, Poem Memoir Story, No Tell Motel, Runes Review, Best American Poetry 2004 and were part of the inaugural Verse and Vision Project of the Cleveland RTA.

She has given readings at The Washington D.C. Jewish Community Center, The Writer's Center, The Library of Congress, George Washington University, Emory University, The KGB Bar, and The Baltimore Book Festival.

This summer she will be teaching a poetry workshop at the Havurah Institute at Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire. In the fall of 2007, she will be teaching a poetry workshop at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival in Rockville, MD.

Starting in September 2007, Carly will be an Arts Fellow at the Drisha Institute in New York City.


See you at INTERSECTIONS!
Thank you for your continued support!
Fred Joiner
Curator and Host