The Hour: Poetry Open Mic - Created and hosted by poet Maria Fernanda

About this event

"A new year begins, our first writings and early drafts rise from a plant like callus tissue, forming along our experiences, our conversations, a garden. Every line revives a leaf, a stem, a root." — María Fernanda.

Sign up on-site to share your work aloud at our newest open mic series curated by award-winning poet María Fernanda (she/hers). She believes that Poetry, like us, exists in many forms—spoken word, blues, performance/theatre, hip-hop, and more. Bring poems, songs, raps, monologues, positive affirmations and more! Literary work at any creative stage is welcomed: new sh*t, draft, final, published, published-but-the-poem-been-lookin-a-little-different-now and more! Each reader will have approximately 3 minutes to make room for as many readers as possible. Hosted by poet María Fernanda (she/hers). This event is one-hour.

María Fernanda (she/hers) is a poet from DC. Her work explores the intimacy of sisterhood, the anchor of intergenerational coexistence, and grief. Awarded the Norma Elia Cantú Award in Creative Writing, her work appears in The Healing Verse Poetry Line, Cave Canem’s Dogbytes, Cheryl Clarke's born in a bed of good lessons: poems inspired by the works of Lucille Clifton, and more. She is the founder of a poetry garden, where Black poets and gardeners discuss their creative and historic connections to gardens. Connect with her at mariafernandapoet.com and @poetrywithmariafernanda.