Chestertown

These events are for writers and readers, and this calendar is a condensed, incomplete teaser lifted from the newsletter from the EWSA. If you want to read the whole thing, you gotta join: www.easternshorewriters.org. (It’s inexpensive & fabulous.)
Miles River Literary Open Mic Night – Tonight (Friday) at 7 p.m. at The Perk Coffeeshop, on Talbot St . , in St. Michaels. Award-winning poet Anne Colwell, of Milton , DE will be the featured poet, reading from her work. Sign-up for individual readings will be at 6:45 p.m. The open mic night is held monthly at The Perk in St. Michaels.
The Small Press Fair will be Saturday (April 19) at The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh St . , in Bethesda , MD , from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Writers can meet editors and publishers from literary journals and small presses. Sally Canzoneri will lead a writing and book-making program for children, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., among other events during the Fair. Admission is free.
Baltimore’s City Lit Fest will be Saturday (April 19) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. The day-long celebration of the literary arts will be at 400 Cathedral St . It will feature more than 50 writers. The Poet’s Ink workshop will return, and the bustling Literary Marketplace is free for authors, self-published writers, poets, presses, journals and organizations. The event is free to the public. For more information, go to: www.CityLitProject.org. 
Poet Michael Collier (past Poet Laureate) will appear:
At 1 p.m., Saturday, April 19, Cecil County Public Library, at Elkton Central Library, 301 Newark Ave., in Elkton, 21921. Contact Beth-Ann Ryan (410) 996-1055, ext. 129.
Poet Michael Glaser (current Poet Laureate) will appear:
At 6 p.m., May 14, at Kent County Public Library, 408 High St . , in Chestertown 21620. Contact Karin Cowperthwait (410) 778-3636. 
At 7 p.m., May 15, at Dorchester County Public Library, in Cambridge 21613. Contact Leslie Grove (410) 228-7332.
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