"The Poetics of Place"
Saturday, June 30 from 2–4 p.m.
Poetry Reading
Free; no registration required
This poetry reading is presented in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series. Featuring contributors to the anthology Full Moon on K Street: Poems about Washington, DC, the program is introduced by editor Kim Roberts and publisher Steven Allen May. Poets include Derrick Weston Brown, Christina Daub, Barbara Goldberg, Brandon D. Johnson, E. Ethelbert Miller, Yvette Neisser Moreno, Elizabeth Poliner, Myra Sklarew, and Alan Spears. Copies of Full Moon on K Street will be available for sale.
Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #83, 1975. Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 inches. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Museum Purchase with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the William A. Clark Fund, and Mary M. Hitchcock 1975.30. © The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation.