MidnightRose: A Reading Series of Poetry & Prose features Alexa Patrick and jonetta rose barras
Sat, Apr 18
|Tenley-Friendship Library
IT'S POETRY MONTH! Come celebrate with us. Feel its power and the magic as delivered by two of Washington Metro Region's well-known published writers.
Time & Location
Apr 18, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA
About the event
MidnightRose: A Reading Series of Poetry and Prose ends Season 2 with two of the area's finest poets, including the founder of the program. Come join us for Poetry Month.
Featuring:
Alexa Patrick is a vocalist and poet from Connecticut. She is the author of Remedies for Disappearing (Haymarket Books, 2023) and holds fellowships from Cave Canem, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and more. Previous artistic partnerships of Alexa’s include Meta, Microsoft, The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. In spring 2023, Alexa made her stage production debut as Un/Sung in the opera We Shall Not Be Moved, (dire. Bill T. Jones). Her work appears in a variety of publications, including Adroit, The Rumpus, CRWN Magazine, and The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic
jonetta rose barras is a poet, fiction writer, public scholar, cultural curator, and…