March 1 | DC Poet Project - Honoring Reuben Jackson and Kathi Wolfe

Join Gregory Luce, Joseph Ross, and Serena Agusto-Cox for a poetry reading and open mic, including a $250 open mic prize!

Saturday, March 1 · 7 - 8:30pm
This event is free! REGISTER HERE.

This is the second event in Day Eight’s 2025 DC Poet Project series. Each event includes about thirty minutes of poetry by the featured poets and equal time for open mic participants to read for the opportunity to win a $250 open mic prize, judged by the featured poets.

Anyone can perform in the open mic; Only DC residents are eligible to win the cash prize.

The DC Poet Project is a poetry series and open-to-all poetry competition that culminates in the publication of a new book of poetry by a DC author. Each event includes readings by featured poets and an open mic. At each series event, the featured poets select one open mic participant to be the winner, awarding a $250 cash prize and inviting the participant to compete in the culminating event to win a $1,000 book contract.

The 2025 DC Poet Project series is curated by Regie Cabico and hosted by Aaron Holmes and is produced by Day Eight through the support of individual donors and support from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
This event features poets that were friends with Kathi Wolfe and/or Reuben Jackson, a pair of exceptional DC poets that passed in 2024.