Musical organ interlude by Marshall Anders. Hot Shotz is located at 3018 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA, a 30-second walk from the Clarendon Metro on the orange line. Theatre Project's weekend festival of new language-based performance art. Two evenings of literature performance, poetry readings, and language-based performance art featuring new works by Denise Gantt, Ryan Dawson Mahon, Felicia Morgenstern, and Lucia Treasure. Booksigning with Gayle Lynde, author of Mesmerized .
Open reading follows.
Booksigning with Rosemary Stevens, author of The Tainted Snuff Box . In Hold Them In Your Heart , Pratt librarian JoAnn Mondowney looks at successful programs for at-risk teens in libraries from Baltimore to California. Poet Lia Purpura reads from and signs her latest collection of poetry, Stone Sky Lifting . Also available is her book Increase , a collection of lyric essays in which she chronicles her pregnancy, the birth of her son and his first year of life. Copies of both books will be on sale.