Let the Poets Speak. Want the truth? Ask a POET. – a Roundtable Discussion
Adrian Matejka, Marceline White, DaMaris Hill, Elizabeth Hazen, Sacha Marvin, and Mistress of Ceremonies, Teri Ellen Cross Davis
Community Gallery
Maryland Center for History and Culture
610 Park Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21201

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It’s National Poetry Month, five weeks in the year when poetry is celebrated, taught, read, and carried in pockets for spontaneous readings with kindred souls. Where it flourishes in literary communities across the nation. Where truthtelling shows up, and stuff gets said. CityLit invites fellow poets to join this brief convening, an informal roundtable gathering to talk shop. Presenting poets share what it means to craft through the wreckage of uncertainty, how to write a poem through grief, rage, and disconcerting times, when half the world is at war, and life requires you to be present, though, at times largely unseen. When families experience separation, and unrest seems prevalent and unyielding. What does it mean to write through hope and hard times? To be against forgetting? It’s The Writer’s Room, but with Adrian Matejka, DaMaris Hill, Elizabeth Hazen, Sacha Marvin, Marceline White, and Teri Ellen Cross Davis, six fierce poets weighing in on what it takes to mine the craft, to bear witness in remembrance or resistance.

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CityLit Project in partnership with Maryland Center for History and Culture present Bearing Witness: Literature as a Revolutionary Act. This celebration of the arts showcases a bevy of leading poets and writers on April 11, 2026. We’re talking fiction, nonfiction, poetry galore, and ways to up the ante on your craft.

Download the CityLit Festival: Bearing Witness flyer with the schedule.

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