Saturday April 20 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Chris Mason with Bill Engstrand

Chris Mason is a Baltimore poet and songwriter. He is a member of two musical groups, Old Songs, who translate Archaic Greek poetry and put it to music, and The Tinklers. Poetry books: Poems of a Doggy (pod, 1977), Hum Who Hiccup (Narrowhouse, 2011), Something Something Morning (Blabbermouth,2020), and Of Rare Earths (forthcoming from Uncollected Press).

Bill Engstrand (upright bass) is currently a PhD student in Literature and Film at Morgan State University. He is currently working on a short film structured around the poems of Langston Hughes.

Ward Tietz

Ward Tietz is a visual poet and word artist best known for his installations and performances using large three-dimensional letters and words. Working in a variety of media, from sculpture to works on paper, he has exhibited and performed his work in galleries, festivals, art centers and museums in the United Sates and Europe since the late 1980s. Ward’s current work includes Hg-The Liquid, a book of rubrical visual poetry published by 1913 Press. He has taught in Europe and the United States, locally at Georgetown, from 2002-2020. More information about Ward’s creative work is available at wordimage.net.