Words out Loud Poetry Reading

Elizabeth Lara and Dylan Carpenter are the featured poets. The afternoon includes a literary trivia quiz and brief open mic.

Elizabeth Lara’s poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Solstice Literary Journal and Unsinkable: Poetry Inspired by the Titanic. She co-edited Happiness: The Delight-Tree and curated the MER VOX folio Soy Mujer: Latinx Poets of the Diaspora. Her most recent publication is Cantando con el ruiseñor / Singing with the Nightingale.

Dylan Carpenter received his BA from Colorado College and his MFA from Johns Hopkins University. His poems appear in journals including The Hudson Review, The Common, The Iowa Review, Lana Turner, and Poetry Northwest. He is a lecturer in the English department at the University of Maryland, College Park, and lives in Washington, D.C.