Join us for this live event and read a poem during our 5th year of celebrating all things poetry in the City of Salisbury! Hosted by Kari Ebert and Scott Whitaker, editors of the Eastern Shore online magazine, The Broadkill Review! Featuring reading by Poet Laureate of the City of Salisbury, Nancy Mitchell, and 2022 Poet-in-Residence, Teri Ellen Cross Davis! Only at Salisbury’s premier live event space, Revival, on April 8 – Friday at 7:30PM!
Our hope is to provide an open and honest community for writers and performers alike. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive welcoming environment where individuals can unapologetically share their art and themselves. Any type of poetry is welcome!
From left: Terri Ellen Cross Davis, Stephen Scott Whitaker, Kari Ann Ebert, & Nancy Mitchell
About Salisbury Poetry Week:
Now in its fifth year, Salisbury Poetry Week is a community celebration of both the written and spoken word which takes place during the first full week of April every year in the City of Salisbury, Maryland and surrounding Wicomico County. Founded in 2016 by a collective of teachers, students, poets, and community members, our mission is to build compassion and improve the craft of communication through the ancient art of poetry. The week features educational classroom visitation through Poets in the Schools programming, as well as workshops and readings for all levels of writers, free and open to the general public. For more information about this year’s events, visit: www.easternshorewriters.org
Salisbury Poetry Week 2022 would not have been possible without generous grants from The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore and Salisbury Wicomico Arts Council, as well as support from Eastern Shore Writers Association (ESWA). Further community partners include: Wicomico County Public Libraries, Maryland Writers Association (MWA), City of Salisbury Poet Laureate Nancy Mitchell, The City of Salisbury, Maryland, The Broadkill Review, Fenix Youth Project, Wicomico County Public Schools, and Salisbury University’s Fulton School of Liberal Arts.
Kari Ann Ebert is the Poetry & Interview editor for The Broadkill Review. Winner of the 2020 Sandy Crimmins National Prize in Poetry and the 2018 Gigantic Sequins Poetry Contest, Kari’s work has appeared in journals such as The Night Heron Barks, Mojave River Review, Philadelphia Stories, The Main Street Rag, The Ekphrastic Review, and Gargoyle as well as several anthologies. Her honors include a residency at Virginia Creative Center for the arts (2021), Individual Artist Fellow in Literature: Poetry, Delaware Division of the Arts (2020), and fellowships from MidAtlantic Arts Foundation (2021), The Shipman Agency (2020), BOAAT Press (2020), and Brooklyn Poets (2019). Kari lives in Dover, Delaware where she serves on the board of the Dover Art League and is active in the arts community there. Read more of her work at kariannebert.com.
Stephen Scott Whitaker is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, a teacher, and a grant writer. The winner of the 2021 Pink Poetry Prize Whitaker’s writing has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, The Rumpus, The American Journal of Poetry, Great River Review, The Maine Review, and other journals. The author of four chapbooks and a broadside from Broadsided Press, Whitaker is the recipient of fellowships from Maryland Humanities, Maryland State Arts Council, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the Witter Bynner Foundation of Poetry for bringing poetry into classrooms and communities on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia. Whitaker is the fiction editor and managing editor of The Broadkill Review. Mulch, their novel of weird fiction is forthcoming from Montag Press in early 2023.
Nancy Mitchell is a 2012 Pushcart Prize winner in poetry, and the author of The Near Surround (Four Way Books, 2002), Grief Hut (Cervena Barva Press, 2009), The Out-of-Body Shop (Plume Editions in 2018) and co-editor of Plume Interviews 1 (MadHat Press, 2016). Her poems have appeared in journals such as AGNI, Green Mountains Review, Poetry Daily, Washington Square Review and have been anthologized in Last Call (Sarabande Books), The Working Poet (Autumn House Press), and Plume 3, 4, & 5. She has been awarded artist in residence fellowships at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in San Angelo, Virginia and Auvillar, France, and at Spring Creek, Oregon State University. She taught Creative Writing for Maryland Summer Center for Arts, 2012-2014, and in the Environmental Studies Program and English Department at Salisbury University where she produced the annual Fulton School of the Arts festival WORDSTOCK. Mitchell currently teaches for CELL at Salisbury University in Maryland. She serves as Associate Editor of Special Features and Interviews for Plume Poetry.
Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of a more perfect Union, (winner of the 2019 Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, Mad Creek Books) and Haint, (winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry, Gival Press, 2016). She was awarded the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award and is the recipient of grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and The Freya Project. A member of the Black Ladies Brunch Collective, she has been awarded fellowships and scholarships to Cave Canem, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Community of Writers Poetry Workshop, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared in print, online, and in many journals and anthologies including: Academy of American Poets, Deep Beauty; Not Without Our Laughter; Harvard Review, PANK, Poetry Ireland Review, and Kenyon Review. She was the 2019-2020 HoCoPoLitSo Writer-in-Residence for Howard County, Maryland, and is the current Poetry Coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. She lives in Maryland with her husband, poet Hayes Davis and their two children.
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