2025 DC Poet Project - Culminating Reading Event

Come listen to the 2025 DC Poet Project finalists perform their poetry at the culminating reading event, 2-3:30pm, Sunday May 4, 2024, at the Anacostia Library, 1800 Marion Barry Ave SE, DC.

At the end of the reading the attending audience will be asked to live-vote to select one of the finalists the 2025 DC Poet Project winner, to receive a $1,000 book contract.

Space is limited, the event is free for all, and advance registration is recommended.

The featured poets in the 2025 DC Poet Project reading series, who also served as judges selecting the finalists, included: Maggie Rosen, Sean Felix, Anne-Marie Maloney, Gregory Luce, Joseph Ross, Serena Agusto-Cox, Brandon Douglas (2023 DC Poet Project winner), Patience Rowe, Dwayne Lawson-Brown, Pacyinz Lyfoung, Nico Penaranda, and Amuchechukwu Nwafor (2024 DC Poet Project winner.)The 2025 DC Poet Project series was curated by Regie Cabico and hosted by Aaron Holmes.

The 2025 DC Poet Project was made possibly with support from individual donors to Day Eight, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and parntership with the Anacostia Coordinating Council.