The Spiral Staircase Poetry & Open Read with featured poet Natalie Lobe

You are invited to 

The Spiral Staircase Poetry Reading and Open Read

This Sunday, February 16, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

at

49 West Café and Wine Bar

49 West Street

Annapolis, MD  21401

 

Coffee ● Tea ● Wine ● Beer ● Cocktails ● Great Food

 

Admission is FREE

 

(Scroll down for FREE PARKING INFO)

 

Our featured writer this month is Natalie Lobe. Her full length book of poetry, “What Gypsies Don’t Know”, was published in 2018. She has published three chapbooks: Conversation with Abraham(2012), Island Time (2008) and Connected Voices (2006).  Her poems have appeared in Slant, Jewish Currents, Comstock Review, California Quarterly, and many other journals. Natalie serves on the board of the Annapolis Arts Alliance, and has taught poetry at Anne Arundel Community College most recently in the fall of 2019. She has also taught poetry at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, and at Bates Middle School’s special arts program in Annapolis. Natalie was also a “Poet in the Schools” for many years, teaching poetry in both public and private elementary schools in Maryland. She has been a judge for the Senior Year Arts Competition at St. John’s College and for “Poetry Out Loud,” a program of Anne Arundel County elementary schools. Natalie has a BA degree from Connecticut College and an MA from University of New Hampshire.

 

Open Read: Read 3 poems, or read for 5 minutes, whichever is briefer.

 

For more information, please contact

Dan Kagan  spiralstaircasepoetry@gmail.com

 

   Visit our Facebook event page for details and FREE PARKING HINTS https://www.facebook.com/events/1307424216312092/

 

PLEASE INVITE YOUR FRIENDS THROUGH THE PAGE’S LINKS

                        

Please forward this to anyone who may be interested.

 

FREE PARKING    FREE PARKING   FREE PARKING

 

FREE PARKING FOR SPIRAL STAIRCASE POETRY

 

PARK FOR FREE in the Anne Arundel County employees’ garage at 19 St. John’s St. (GPS/Mapquest the address)

 

The garage is OPEN AND FREE on weekends. This garage is about a five-minute walk from the 49 West Coffehouse.

 

The garage is right across from the St. John’s College auditorium.  Turn on to St. John’s St. off of College Ave., OR come straight down Rowe Blvd. from Rt. 50, then turn left at the light at Calvert St., and then left on St. John St.

 

Here’s a link with the St. John’s St. garage’s location and the walking route to 49 West Cafe.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/48+St+Johns+St,+Annapolis,+MD+21401/49+West+St,+Annapolis,+MD+21401/@38.9801522,-76.497911,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7f65182b9db37:0x4667c38e84621d6d!2m2!1d-76.4941557!2d38.9820562!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7f65097aeef1b:0xc78d78efbb4301e8!2m2!1d-76.4951957!2d38.9782484!3e2?hl=en

 

 

Please contact me with any questions.

 

Dan Kagan
Spiral Staircase Poetry Series
spiralstaircasepoetry@gmail.com
410-279-9743