Welcome to Splendid Wake-up: a blog associated with Splendid Wake, a greater Washington DC area project that documents poets and poetry from 1900 to current day. Find more information about the Splendid Wake wiki at Special Collections, Gelman Library at The George Washington University.
Our sixth year came to an end with a truly wonderful program, and we are so grateful to those of you who came to the event, as well as to this year’s speakers: A.B. Spellman, Kim Roberts, Truth Thomas, Maritza Rivera and Abdul Ali. The book raffle was a big success and several guests went home one inscribed book richer that afternoon.
Of course, none of this could have been done without the tireless work of the committee, and you’ll be reading more about them in another blog post.
You say you wish you’d been there? Well, have a look at this year’s video, put together by the talented videography company, C and C Video:
