Words out Loud Poetry Reading

Nancy Naomi Carlson and Michael Gushue read from their poetry. Includes literary trivia quiz and brief open mic.

Nancy Naomi Carlson won the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize from Oxford University. Author of 17 titles, her poetry and translations have been noted in the New York Times. A recipient of two grants from the NEA and decorated by the French government with the Academic Palms, her work has appeared in APR, The Nation, the New York Review of Books, and Poetry. Carlson is the Translations Editor for On the Seawall.

Michael Gushue’s books are Q&A For The End Of The World (with Kim Roberts), Sympathy for the Monster, Gather Down Women: Poems and Translations, Pachinko Mouth, and Conrad; and, with CL Bledsoe, The Judy Poems, I Never Promised You A Sea Monkey, and Palace of Depression (forthcoming). He co-ran the reading series BAWA and Poetry at the Watergate. He and CL Bledsoe run a column of very bad advice on Medium.com called How To Even and have published a novel on Substack, Chip Andrews, Boy Exorcist. He lives with his wife, Susan, in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington DC.