We are delighted to welcome you to our early November Wilde Readings event featuring authors Geoffrey Himes, Linda Rabben and you!
Host: Linda Joy Burke
Geoffrey Himes
Geoffrey Himes’ poetry has been published by Best American Poetry, December, Gianthology,
Innisfree, Salt Lick and other publications. He has written about popular music and theater for
the Washington Post, New York Times, Rolling Stone and many more since 1977. His book, In-
Law Country: How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash and Their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, was published in 2024, followed by his book, Willie Nelson: The Stories Behind
the Music, in 2025. His two books of collaborative poems with Grace Cavalieri, Fables from Italy and Beyond and The Third Voice, were published in 2025. His first book of solo poems,Today I Am an Orphan: The Shorter Poems of Geoffrey Himes, is due in 2026. His podcast and recent writing can be found at the Hard Rain & Pink Cadillacs site on SubStack.
Linda Rabben
Author, anthropologist and human rights activist Linda Rabben did research in and on Brazil for more than 30 years, worked as a researcher for Amnesty International, and coordinated a project
for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. Linda’s 12 published books include Book of Changes, a collection of her poems, and Through a Glass Darkly: The Social History of Stained Glass in Baltimore. She is an associate research professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland.
Please spread the word - bring your friends, family, and students. All are welcome. We encourage you to participate in the open mic. Please prepare no more than five minutes of performance time/two poems.
Light refreshments will be served. Books by both featured authors and open mic readers will be available for sale.
#poetry #fiction #literaryarts #hocomd #hocopolitso #openmic
You may also like the following events from Wilde Readings:
Also check out other
Arts events in Columbia,
Literary Art events in Columbia.
|
