Featured Editor Diane Lockward, Line Up of Poets + Open Mic with 15 writers reading their poems from the new anthology: What the House Knows
On Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 7:00pm EST, our monthly online Open Mic will feature Diane Lockward, Line Up of Poets + Open Mic with 15 writers
By Journal of Expressive Writing
Thursday, May 8 · 7 - 8:30pm EDT
Location
Online
About this event
Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes
The Journal of Expressive Writing is more than a publication. We aim to be an engaged and supportive community of writers and listeners. Giving our focused attention to each other’s voices, stories and writing is a generous, necessary act of humanity, repair and celebration.
On Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 7:00pm EST, our monthly OPEN MIC series will feature Diane Lockward— Poet, Publisher and Editor of What the House Knows, an anthology of 116 poems by 116 poets, including Ted Kooser, Alice Friman, Billy Collins, Tracy K. Smith, Jan Beatty, George Bilgere, and more!
The event will also include poets included in the anthology who will read their poems!
ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY:
What the House Knows is an anthology of 116 poems by 116 poets, poets such as Ted Kooser, Alice Friman, Billy Collins, Tracy K. Smith, Jan Beatty, and George Bilgere. Each poem features a house. Throughout the collection, you will find a variety of houses: old age homes, a schoolhouse, an outhouse, an abandoned farmhouse, rented apartments, and even a doghouse. The poems tell stories and hit the heart. There are poems about losing a house to fire, moving out of a house after divorce, remembering people who once lived in the house. You will also find a variety of people inhabiting the houses. And you will find poems in a variety of forms. As you move from poem to poem, from house to house, walk through the rooms known in Italy as stanzas. Listen to what the walls have to say.
FEATURED READERS:
Adele Kenny
Jennifer Freed
Jessica de Koninck
Barbara Sabol
Saba Husain
Susan Azar Porterfield
Betsy Sholl
Susan Rothbard
Kathy Nelson
Lynne Knight
Kelly DuMar