with Mel Edden
Poetry Workshop with Michael Fallon
Sat, Apr 182:30 PMBaltimore County Public Library: Hereford branchOpen Mic Poetry is a monthly gathering for poets and poetry lovers at Manor Mill, hosted by British poet Mel Edden. Each evening features open mic readings followed by a featured poet sharing their published work.
Open mic readers are capped at 25 per evening. Please limit submissions to one poem (three minutes maximum). Featured poets read established published work.
In addition to open mic nights, Manor Mill hosts poetry workshops with Michael Fallon on the third Saturday of each month, 2:30 - 4:00 PM at Hereford Branch Library.
Ashlyn Mason Kenney is a writer who explores many forms, including poetry, essays, scripts, and succinct marketing language for branded content and marketing. Over the last six years, Ashlyn has been an adjunct professor in Stevenson University’s School of Design and Film and Video Communication programs.
Donald Berger is the author of six books of poetry, The Rose of Maine (SurVision Books), Pizza Necklace (Foundlings Press), The Long Time, a bilingual edition in English and German (Wallstein Publishers, Goettingen, Germany), Or Purchase a Star (Jiddizig Books), Quality Hill (Lost Roads Publishers) and The Cream-Filled Muse (Fledermaus Press). His poems and prose have appeared in Best American Poetry 2025, The New Republic, Slate, Conjunctions, Fence, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, The Believer, New American Writing and other publications.
Elizabeth Hazen is a poet and essayist. After teaching for twenty years, she changed tracks and now works at an independent bookstore. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Epoch, American Literary Review, Shenandoah, and other journals. She has published two collections of poetry, Chaos Theories (2016) and Girls Like Us (2020). Her third collection, The Sky Will Hold, is forthcoming in March 2026. She lives in Baltimore with her family.
G.H. Mosson is the author of three books and three chapbooks of poetry, including most recently, Singing the Forge (David Robert Books), Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time (Finishing Line Press, 2019), and two collaborative chapbooks from PM Press. In 2025 the Kirkus Review noted, "Mosson is a poet's poet whose craft is finely honed." Mosson's poetry has appeared in The Tampa Review, California Quarterly, Smartish Pace, The Potomac Review, Loch Raven Review, and been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize. He works as an attorney based in Baltimore County.
Jennifer Keith's poems have appeared in Sewanee Theological Review, The Nebraska Review, The Free State Review, Fledgling Rag, Unsplendid, Best American Poetry 2015, JMWW, and elsewhere. Keith received the 2014 John Elsberg poetry prize and was a finalist in the 2021 Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace. Her first full-length book of poems, Terminarch, was chosen by David Yezzi for the 2023 Able Muse Book Award.
Moira Egan is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently, The Furies (LSU Press, 2025) and Amore e morte, a bilingual New & Selected Poems (Edizioni Tlon, Rome, 2022). Her poems and essays have been published on four continents, in journals such as Poetry, The Hopkins Review, The Yale Review, The Southwest Review, American Letters & Commentary, Nuovi Argomenti, and Poesia, and in anthologies including Best American Poetry; The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics; and Best Spiritual Writing.
Rosanne Singer is a poet and memoirist and a recent MFA graduate in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. Home Theater is her second poetry collection which she wrote and designed as part of that program. For 25 years she worked as a teaching artist in the Maryland schools and with small arts teams at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Georgetown University Hospital. Recent work appears in Allium, Grist, Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine and The Baltimore Fishbowl. An earlier collection of poetry, Little Red Dot, was published in 2018. Rosanne is Editor-in-Chief at Passager Books, a small press that showcases the creative writing of folks over 50.
Shirley J. Brewer (Baltimore MD) is a poet, educator, and workshop facilitator. She serves as poet-in-residence at Carver Center for the Arts & Technology and on the board of directors of Passager Books. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems garnish Barrow Street, Passager, Gargoyle, Poetry East, Slant, Welter, among other journals and anthologies. Shirley's poetry books include A Little Breast Music (Passager Books, 2008), After Words (Apprentice House, 2013), Bistro in Another Realm (Main Street Rag, 2017), and When Everything Breaks (Finishing Line Press, 2024).
Published poets at Manor Mill Poetry Night.
Manor Mill provides creative opportunities for writers of all levels, fostering community and skill development through poetry, prose, retreats, and more.
Monthly featured author readings and open mic with the Manor Mill Writers Guild. Third Monday of every month at 6:45 PM.
