The Spiral Staircase Poetry Reading and Open Read

Our featured poet this month is V.P. Loggins. Loggins is the author of The Wild Severance (April 2021, Bright Hill Press), winner of the 26th Annual Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition. He is also the author of The Green Cup (2017), winner of the Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize, The Fourth Paradise (Main Street Rag, 2010), and Heaven The (Pudding House Chapbook Series, 2007). He has published one book of criticism on Shakespeare, The Life of Our Design, and is co-author of another, Shakespeare’s Deliberate Art. His poems and articles have appeared in many journals including The Baltimore Review, Crannog (Ireland), The Dalhousie Review, First Things, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Healing Muse, Poet Lore, Poetry East, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Southern Review, among others. He has been a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the May Swenson Award, and the Tampa Review Prize. His work has been featured in A Universe of Dreams, poetry and music performed nationally by Neal Conan of National Public Radio and Ensemble Galilei. Loggins holds a Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature from Purdue University, and has taught most recently at the United States Naval Academy.

OPEN READ: Read 3 poems, or read for 5 minutes, whichever is briefer.
Read your own work, or work written by someone else. Fiction, non-fiction, play scripts, and screenplay excerpts are also welcome.

The garage is OPEN AND FREE on weekends. It 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

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