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SUMMARY:Essential Essex Hemphill
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library\nMartin
  Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library
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DESCRIPTION:A Find Your Story poetry reading.\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.in
 fo/event/16439462
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Join the Library for a special panel celeb
 rating the life and work of DC poet Essex Hemphill. Four poets will examin
 e the enduring impact of DC poet&nbsp\;Essex&nbsp\;Hemphill\, by examining
  their favorites of his poems. Featuring: Gregory Adams\, Regie Cabico\, M
 ichele Parkerson\, and Dan Vera. Moderated by Kim Roberts Meikle.</p>\n<h4
 ><strong>About the Poets</strong></h4>\n<p><strong><img src="https://stati
 c.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/dclibrary/gregoryadams.png" width="20
 0" height="195" alt="" style="float: left\; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px\;" /
 >Gregory Adams</strong> was a founding member of Station-to-Station\, a gr
 oundbreaking collective of Black LGBTQ performance poets and writers of th
 e 1980s\, and was active in the ENIK Alley Coffeehouse. In 2021\, he was o
 n the five-member team to create the documentary&nbsp\;Fierceness Served!:
  The ENIKAlley Coffeehouse. His poetry\, essays\, and articles have been p
 ublished in&nbsp\;Blacklight Magazine\,&nbsp\;Nethula Journal\, Street Sen
 se\, and the&nbsp\;Washington Post. He lives in DC\, and is currently comp
 leting a degree at Johns Hopkins University.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>&nb
 sp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;
 </p>\n<p><strong><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/edit
 or/dclibrary/regiecabico.png" width="200" height="200" alt="" style="float
 : left\; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px\;" />Regie Cabico</strong> is the first
  Asian American Poet and openly Queer Poet to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
  Grand Slam and is a three-time National Poetry Slam Finalist. His work ha
 s appeared on TEDx Talk\, HBO's&nbsp\;Def Poetry Jam\, NPR&rsquo\;s&nbsp\;
 Snap Judgement. He is the recipient of a Writers Residency from La Maison 
 Baldwin and The Asian Pacific Studies Artist-in-Residence at NYU. Awards i
 nclude a New York Innovative Theater Award for his work on the New York Ne
 o-Futurists production of&nbsp\;Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind.&nb
 sp\;His collection of poetry\, A Rabbit in Search of a Rolex&nbsp\;was pub
 lished in 2024 by Day Eight Press.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;
 </p>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><
 strong><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/dclibra
 ry/michellemarkerson.png" width="200" height="289" alt="" style="float: le
 ft\; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px\;" />Michelle Parkerson</strong> is a write
 r\, educator and award-winning filmmaker based in Washington\, DC.&nbsp\; 
 Her work has screened at prestigious international festivals including The
  Sundance Film Festival\, The Berlin Film Festival and AFI Fest.&nbsp\; Sh
 e has documented LGBTQ icon Audre Lorde\, jazz innovator Betty Carter\, ac
 appella activists Sweet Honey in the Rock and legendary male impersonator\
 , Storme&rsquo\; DeLarverie.&nbsp\; Michelle has served on the faculties o
 f Northwestern University\, Temple University\, Howard University and Univ
 ersity of Delaware as well as the Mayor&rsquo\;s Office of LGBTQ Affairs A
 dvisory Committee and the Board of Mary&rsquo\;s House for Older Adults\, 
 Inc.</p>\n<p><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>&
 nbsp\; &nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;</strong></p
 >\n<p><strong>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</st
 rong></p>\n<p><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;</st
 rong></p>\n<p><strong><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images
 /editor/dclibrary/danvera.png" width="200" height="200" alt="" style="floa
 t: left\; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px\;" />Dan Vera</strong> is a writer\, e
 ditor\, watercolorist\, and literary historian. The recipient of the Oscar
  Wilde Award for Poetry and the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize\, he&r
 squo\;s co-editor of&nbsp\;Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzald&uacute\;a
 n Borderlands&nbsp\;(Aunt Lute Books) and author of three books of poetry\
 ,&nbsp\;Celestial Fire: Songs for a Love that Dares&nbsp\;(Beothuk Books)&
 nbsp\;Speaking Wiri Wiri&nbsp\;(Red Hen Press) and&nbsp\;The Space Between
  Our Danger and Delight&nbsp\;(Beothuk Books). Vera&rsquo\;s work is featu
 red by the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts\, and
  included in college and university curricula\; various journals including
 &nbsp\;Notre Dame Review\, Poet Lore\, and&nbsp\;Beltway Poetry Quarterly\
 ; and in anthologies including&nbsp\;Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry 
 Anthology\, The Traveler&rsquo\;s Made Mecum\,&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;The Queer S
 outh: LGBTQ Writers on the American South.</p>\n<p><strong></strong></p>\n
 <p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbs
 p\; &nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong><img src="https://static.libnet.info/
 frontend-images/editor/dclibrary/kimroberts.png" width="200" height="200" 
 alt="" style="float: left\; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px\;" />Kim Roberts Mei
 kle</strong> is the author of seven books of poems\, most recently&nbsp\;Q
 &amp\;A for the End of the World\, a collaboration with Michael Gushue (Wo
 rdTech Editions\, 2025)\, and two guidebooks\, including&nbsp\;The Distric
 t&rsquo\;s Departed: A Guidebook to DC Cemeteries&nbsp\;(Rivanna Books\, f
 orthcoming in Fall 2026). Meikle co-curates DC Pride Poem-a-Day each June\
 , and co-directs the Pride Poetry Fellowship at the Arts Club of Washingto
 n.&nbsp\;</p>\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/16439462
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