Poetry and Music in Rockville Town Center

The next free HearArts spoken word and music program is on Thursday, May 3 at 7 PM at VisArts, 155 Gibbs Street, Rockville, Maryland (http://www.visartsatrockville.org) in the 2nd floor Buchanan Room.  Featured readers, below, are followed by open mic and reception.  Ample parking and Rockville Metro nearby.  Contact - philipwexler@msn.com or 240-899-6514.

Kathi Wolfe (poetry)
  Kathi Wolfe is a poet and writer.  Her work has appeared in "Gargoyle," "Potomac Review," "Beltway Poetry Quarterly," "Innisfree Poetry Journal," "Wordgathering" and other publications.  Wolfe has received a Puffin Foundation grant and been awarded poetry residencies by Vermont Studio Center.  She has read at many venues, including the Kennedy Center and the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon series, and appeared on the public radio show "The Poet and the Poem."  She was a finalist in the 2007 Pudding House chapbook competition and her chapbook was published by Pudding House in 2008.  Her chapbook "Helen Takes the Stage: The Helen Keller Poems" was published by Pudding House in 2008.  She is a contributor to "Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability," a Publishers Weekly Fall 2011 Top Ten Poetry Book.
Terry Mulligan (guitar)

Terry Mulligan is a singer/guitarist from Arlington, Virginia.  He has performed at the Takoma Park Folk Festival, The New Deal Cafe in Greenbelt, Maryland, and other venues.  He has played with an all-acoustic band, The Terry Mulligan Troupe, as well as with a full-electric rock band called Craig’s Basement. He is also a writer of short stories and journalism, with stories and articles published in The Washington Review, The Baltimore Review, WordWrights, Maryland Musician, The Northern Virginia Rhythm, and The Takoma Voice.  As Publisher and Fiction Editor for Minimus Literary Journal, he has had the pleasure of meeting some of the most intriguing poets and writers in the Washington area, and he continues to do volunteer graphic design work for the Chevy-Chase based small press, The Word Works.