Dear Poets and Poetry Lovers,
Please join us for the next Del Ray Poetry Reading on Friday, November 7 (7-9pm) at St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub, 2300 Mt. Vernon Ave. We’re pleased to welcome our featured poet Angelique Palmer, Poet Laureate of Fairfax County. After her performance, we’ll open the mic for all to read their poems. Our theme this month is LEAVES! We hope to see you there.
Your hosts,
Wendi Kaplan and Neal Learner
About Angelique Palmer
Angelique Palmer is a performance poet, Kindergarten Teacher, and Spoken Word instructor at Wilkes University. She is a member of the 2026 Pride Fellowship cohort at the Arts Club of Washington and will serve as Fairfax County Poet Laureate until 2027. She is a 2025 Best of the Net nominee, a 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam finalist, and she’s currently ranked 19th among the top 96 competitive poets in the world. Her first full-length book, THE CHAMBERMAID’S STYLE GUIDE, debuted on Sargent Press in 2016. Her second book from Etruscan Press is 2021’s ALSO DARK. The New Orleans native and Florida State University Creative Writing graduate has called Fairfax County home since 2017.