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Fairfax County's Martha Washington Library Poetry Group





Martha Washington Library Poetry Group

The Martha Washington Library Poetry Group in Fairfax County, Virginia, meets every third Thursday (or thereabouts) to share a favorite poem. The meetings are from 7:00 to 8:00pm in the Hollin Hall Senior Center. At the beginning of the meeting those who wish read a poem by any author. We then read poems by the featured poet. All are welcome.

Fairfax County’s Martha Washington Library, meeting at Hollin Hall Senior Center, Alexandria VA

(703) 768-6700, www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library

Schedule for 2010

  • January 21 – Kay Ryan
  • February 18 – Philip Levine
  • March 18 – Jane Hirshfield
  • April 15 – John Ciardi
  • May 20 – Maxine Kumin
  • June 17 – Percy Bysshe Shelly
  • July 15 – Sylvia Plath
  • August 19 – Judith Viorst
  • September 16 – John Ashbery
  • October 21 – W.S. Merwyn
  • November 18 – T.S. Elliot
  • December 9 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge









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