Poets and Poetry Lovers: Please join us for our next Del Ray Poetry Reading on Friday, June 5 (7-9pm) at St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub, 2300 Mt. Vernon Ave. Our featured reader is poet Claire Kinnane. After her reading we’ll open the mic for all to read their poems. The theme this month is “Summertime.”
Your Cohosts,
Wendi Kaplin & Neal Learner
About Claire Kinnane
Claire Kinnane is a poet, writer and proud mother of two from Washington DC. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from American University and an M.Ed in Secondary Education from GW. She’s taught high-school English at the Kirov Academy of Ballet, a boarding school for gifted dancers. Claire is the founder of Write & Thrive, an organization which provides writing workshops to neurodivergent teens and adults. Her work has been featured in Mount Hope, Timber, Dash, Big Lucks and most recently, Five Points. She is a former winner of the Arlington Moving Words Competition.