Before & After: Poets respond to Richard III (2014)

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In Before & After: Poets Respond to Romeo and Juliet, two local poets, Split this Rock Poetry Festival Director Sarah Browning and public interest lawyer, law professor and poet Brian Gilmore, responded to the Folger Theatre's Richard III (Folger Theatre, 2014). The original work of the poets explored themes from the play, in this uniquely lyrical communication between genres. The event was free and open to the public, with a recommended RSVP, and held in the Folger's Elizabethan Theatre on February 21, 2014 from 6pm to 7pm.

Sarah Browning

Sarah Browning is Director of Split This Rock and DC Poets Against the War, author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology. The recipient of an artist fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, she has also received a Creative Communities Initiative grant and the People Before Profits Poetry Prize. Browning has worked as a community organizer in Boston public housing and as a political organizer for reproductive rights, gay rights, and electoral reform, and against poverty, South African apartheid, and U.S. militarism. She was founding director of Amherst Writers & Artists Institute — creative writing workshops for low-income women and youth — and Assistant Director of The Fund for Women Artists, an organization supporting socially engaged art by women. She has written essays and interviewed poets and artists for a variety of publications.

Brian Gilmore

Brian Gilmore is a poet, writer, public interest lawyer, and columnist with the Progressive Media Project. He is the author of two collections of poetry, elvis presley is alive and well and living in harlem, and Jungle Nights and Soda Fountain Rags: Poem for Duke Ellington. His poems and writings are widely published and have appeared in The Progressive, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Sugar House Review, and Jubilat. Currently, he teaches law at the MIchigan State University College of Law. He divides his time between Michigan and his beloved birthplace, Washington DC.