

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: AWP Off-Site HOT L Poetry Reading
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 06 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 06 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Friday March 6th at 7pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues with a reading at a beautiful historic church featuring poets Clare Banks, Jan Beatty, Armen Davoudian, Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, Campbell McGrath, Bradley Paul, Alexis Sears, Dean Smith, Chris Watkins and David Yezzi. 

Enjoy poetry, beer, wine, etc. Now in our 8th year, The HOT L Poets series is a monthly reading series in Baltimore City hosted by Smartish Pace, Baltimore Poets Theatre and The Ivy Bookshop.

Part of the fun of this event is that you'll get to see inside an iconic historic space in Baltimore, a long-shuttered 19th-century church at the inception point of being reimagined and renovated for the future. It’s really beautiful, but it does mean that it’s not ADA accessible and has quirky bathrooms and god knows what. Admission and drinks are free. 

Clare Banks is the author of Notes on Endings (Terrapin, 2024). A recipient of two Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards, she has an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and lives in Baltimore City where she is an associate editor for Smartish Pace.

Jan Beatty’s eighth book, Dragstripping, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2024. She’s the winner of the Red Hen Nonfiction Award for American Bastard, and the Paterson Prize for Jackknife: New and Selected Poems (Pitt, 2017). She worked as a waitress, abortion counselor, and in maximum security prisons.

Armen Davoudian is the author of The Palace of Forty Pillars (Tin House, US), which won the Northern California Book Award in Poetry and was long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He is also the translator, from Persian, of Hopscotch by Fatemeh Shams (Ugly Duckling, 2024).

Barbara Hamby is the author of seven poetry collections including Burn (Pitt Poetry Series, 2025), Holoholo (2021), Bird Odyssey (2018), On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems (2014), and Delirium (1995), winner of the Vassar Miller Prize, The Kate Tufts Award, and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. She teaches at Florida State University where she is a Distinguished University Scholar.

David Kirby’s latest books are a poetry collection, Help Me, Information (LSU, 2021), and a textbook modestly entitled The Knowledge: Where Poems Come From and How to Write Them (Flip Learning, 2021). Entertainment Weekly has called Kirby’s poetry one of “5 Reasons to Live,” and he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Humanities Council, which called him "a literary treasure of our state."

Campbell McGrath is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Nouns &amp; Verbs: New and Selected Poems, and **: Poems for the Twentieth Century, a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. His writing has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, a United States Artists Fellowship, and a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award."

Bradley Paul is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Plasma (2018) from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He lives in Los Angeles, where he writes for television.

Alexis Sears is the author of Out of Order (Autumn House, 2022) winner of the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award: Best Book of 2022. Her work appears in Best American Poetry, Poet Lore, Subtropics,  Rattle, and elsewhere.

Dean Smith's second collection of poems is Baltimore Sons (Stillhouse, 2021). His nonfiction work, Never Easy, Never Pretty (Temple,2013), chronicled the Baltimore Ravens 2012 Super Bowl season. He is Director ofDuke University Press.

Chris Watkins is a trans poet, environmental activist, and author of The Drag Gospel of Queer Jesus (Saturnalia, 2026), winner of the publisher’s Alma Book Award. They live in North Florida and work as the Academics and Partnerships Coordinator at FSU’s Office of Sustainability and teach writing and sustainability courses. 

David Yezzi’s latest books are Late Romance: Anthony Hecht—A Poet’s Life (St. Martin’s, 2023) and More Things in Heaven: New and Selected Poems (Measure, 2022). As an actor, he recently performed the roles of King Lear (Baltimore Shakespeare Factory) and Hamlet’s Ghost/Player King (Chesapeake Shakespeare). He is a professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, theatre, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Baltimore
- **state**: MD
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 10 E Mt Vernon Pl, Baltimore, MD 21202-2309, United States
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- **long**: -76.61499
- **full address**: 10 E Mt Vernon Pl, Baltimore, MD 21202-2309, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 06 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 10 E Mt Vernon Pl, Baltimore, MD 21202-2309, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The HOT L Poets Series
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, workshops, theatre, nonprofit
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about AWP Off-Site HOT L Poetry Reading ?
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