Open Mic Poetry is a monthly gathering for poets and poetry lovers at Manor Mill, hosted by British poet Mel Edden. Each month includes a featured poet sharing their published work followed by open mic readings. Every first Monday of each month. Doors open at 6:30pm and readings start 6:45pm.
Open mic readers are capped at 25 per evening, with priority given to first-time readers. Please bring one poem (max three minutes in length, including any introductions). Rehearsing at home is encouraged to ensure clear delivery and accurate length. Featured poets and participants are also encouraged to bring their books for sale.
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.
June 1, 2026
Special night with Hereford High School Brillig Magazine poets to read at open mic!
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.
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 motivated and inspired to share her words through poetry—a form of writing that previously lived in journals with dog-eared pages or in personal letters to loved ones.
In 2021, Ashlyn enrolled in the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of Baltimore and received her degree in 2025. Her poetry explores memory, womanhood, and loving, and is often written in free verse. Ashlyn is the author of two self-published poetry collections, Growing Fruit (2020) and Something Left to Love (2025). Something Left to Love is available at ashlynmason.com.
July 6, 2026
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, and likes swimming, summer, and day hikes. For more, check out www.ghmosson.com.
September 7, 2026
The book launch of our second anthology will take place at Manor Mill in the afternoon of Labor Day. We’ll be celebrating with champagne, cake and readings. More details to follow.
October 5, 2026
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 including some from Berlin, Leipzig, Budapest, Hong Kong, and mainland China. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, Poetry Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, and the James Tate International Poetry Prize, and was also a semi-finalist for Conduit Books’ Minds on Fire Open Book Prize. He currently teaches in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University.
November 2, 2026
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.
December 7, 2026
Photo credit Eric Toccaceli
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 Literature. In 2023, she won the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets for her translations of the poetry of Giorgiomaria Cornelio. She has had poetry fellowships at Civitella Ranieri, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the James Merrill House. Travelling fellowships have taken her to Malta, Honduras, and Selianitika, Greece. She lives in Rome with Damiano Abeni, her partner in life as well as
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.
