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DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the finalists of the 2024 Poetry Contest with
  the Enoch Pratt Free Library and Little Patuxent Review\,  join us for an 
 evening of readings by finalists Marc A. Drexler and Preet Bhela\, returnin
 g poet and previous contest winner Jalynn Harris\, as well as Little Patuxe
 nt Review contributor xochi quetzali cartland. Little Patuxent Review lead 
 editor Sarah Berger will host and read finalist Kate Powell Shine's work.\n
 \n \n\nMarc A. Drexler\, the winner of the 2024 Poetry Contest\, has lived 
 in Maryland most of his life since moving from Iowa to attend Johns Hopkins
  University. His poem "Baltimore\, 1977" appears in Maryland in Poetry (202
 0). He has a poem on some Arlington Transit (ART) buses in Virginia as part
  of their Moving Words project through September 2024. He has been publishe
 d by Split This Rock and The Mid-Atlantic Review. Marc has also served as a
  Community Teaching Assistant for the Coursera online course Modern & Conte
 mporary American Poetry (ModPo)\, led by Al Filreis out of UPenn. He worked
  for many years at the Maryland Food Co-op on the University of Maryland\, 
 College Park campus and believes strongly in collectivism.\n\n \n\nJalynn H
 arris is a writer\, educator\, and book designer from Baltimore. They are t
 he founder of SoftSavagePress\, an indie publisher promoting the works of B
 lack artists. Their literary work can be found or is forthcoming in Poets.o
 rg\, The Best American Poetry 2022\, Feminist Studies\, The Hopkins Review\
 , Poetry Magazine\, Gulf Coast & elsewhere\n\n \n\nPreet Bhela\, a 2024 Poe
 try Contest finalist\, is a Punjabi-American poet currently in his second y
 ear of the University of Maryland’s MFA program\, where he also teaches and
  conducts workshops with undergraduates. He is from Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\,
  where he grew up working at his family’s restaurant. His work inspects the
  self as a site of interruption and how language can embody such breaks and
  disruptions\, especially through a diasporic lens.\n\n \n\nxochi quetzali 
 cartland\, a contributor to Little Patuxent Review's summer issue\, is a qu
 eer and Latina poet\, seamstress\, and transformative justice practitioner.
  She graduated from Brown University with a BA in literary arts and has sin
 ce moved to Washington\, D.C.\, where they are rekindling their love of tre
 es and learning to make pretzels. Her work has been featured in Apple in th
 e Dark and Common Ground Review\, as well as supported by National Arts Str
 ategies and Brooklyn Poets.\n\n \n\nKate Powell Shine has had poems publish
 ed in magazines including FuseLit\, Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, and Gargoyle
 . She is active in numerous local literary communities including those at M
 ontgomery College\, Montgomery County Public Libraries\, and the Eastern Sh
 ore Writers Association. She lives in Montgomery Village with her husband\,
  John Shine.\n\n \n\nSarah Berger\, a contest judge\, is a classical singer
 \, writer\, editor\, teacher\, maker\, and editor of the Little Patuxent Re
 view. She’s a graduate of Oberlin College\, the Peabody Conservatory\, and 
 the University of Baltimore’s MFA program in creative writing and publishin
 g arts. She now teaches at UB in the undergraduate writing program. She’s w
 orking on a forthcoming novel about music students. Links to Sarah’s publis
 hed writing\, music\, and other projects can be found at orangesloth.com an
 d on social media @OrangeSlothArt.\n\n \n\nTo attend in person please regis
 ter here. Doors will open to registered attendees at 5:30 pm. Free parking 
 vouchers are available to program attendees who park at the Franklin Street
  Garage (15 W. Franklin Street) after 4pm.  Ask Pratt event staff for your 
 parking voucher prior to or after the program. This free event will be pres
 ented in-person and virtually.   For more information about this event\, em
 ail poetry@prattlibrary.org. \n\nPictured: (top row) Jalynn Harris\, Marc A
 . Drexler\, Preet Bhela\, (bottom row) xochi quetzali cartland\, Sarah Berg
 er.
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the 2024 Poetry Contest Finalists with Little Patuxent 
 Review
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