In partnership, CityLit Project and the Motor House welcome featured Cave Canem fellow HOLLY BASS to A Home for the Heart to Live In.

This heart-lifting event marks the 19th gathering of poetry fellows and poetry lovers, a convening that morphs into a singular experience. “Won’t you poet that?” Lucille Clifton often said that when she heard or felt something profound. CityLit has long believed it is one thing to read poetry in the quiet reflection in one’s own company, and quite another to hear it delivered in a roomful of word lovers, in a space that embraces the extraordinary along with the ordinary.

On Sunday, December 7th, along with our featured poet, and curated by REGINALD HARRIS, we welcome MAKALANI BANDELE, HAYES DAVIS, TERRI ELLEN CROSS DAVIS, STACY NATHANIEL JACKSON, ALAN KING, KATEEMA LEE, STEVEN LEYVA, SACHA MARVIN, LAUREN RUSSELL, and MALIK THOMPSON.

If home is a heart we live in, CityLit is a place to seek refuge for the velocity of language. Join us for a Sunday afternoon of poetry at the Motor House, a space that centers and nurtures creatives. We showcase a spectacular round-up of poets who will share their latest works. Featured poets at past gatherings have included Danez Smith, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Yona Harvey, Brionne Janae, Aja Monet, Evie Shockley, and Mahogany L. Browne, among others.

Greedy Reads is our event bookseller.

Registration is requested but not required.

This event is made possible by The Academy of American Poets, Poetry Foundation, Amazon Literary Partnership, National Book Foundation, Maryland State Arts Council, Maryland Humanities, Motor House, Insight180, Baltimore National Heritage, T. Rowe Price Foundation, andd Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.