The Word Works, Poet Lore, and The Writer’s Center present Café Muse, featuring Leah Johnson and Kiki Petrosino. The chatroom opens at 7pm and features Classical guitar, played by Michael C. Davis, set to a photo slideshow. Registration is free but required to get the Zoom link. To do so go to https://sites.google.com/
LEAH JOHNSON is the author of Bindweed (Cherry Grove Collections, 2021). A member of Washington, DC’s Surrey Street Poets, her work has appeared in Green Mountains Review Online, The Healing Muse, Oberon Poetry Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Mothers Always Write, One Art, US Represented, The Aurorean, and the anthology Such Friends As These. She is a 2017 Best of the Net nominee for her poem “The Goldfinch” in Beltway Poetry Quarterly. She is a co-host of the WordWorks Café Muse Literary Salon and Professor Emeritus in Writing Studies at American University, a piano teacher, and co-founder of Dumbarton Concerts, now in its 43rd season. https://www.leahjohnsonpoetry.com/
KIKI PETROSINO is the author of White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia (Sarabande Books, 2020) and three other poetry books. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her poems and essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Best American Poetry, The Nation, The New York Times, FENCE, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Tin House, and on-line at Ploughshares. She teaches at the University of Virginia as a Professor of Poetry. Petrosino is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Al Smith Fellowship Award from the Kentucky Arts Council, and the UNT Rilke Prize. http://www.kikipetrosino.com/home