IT'S A LOVE THING: Black History. Poetry. Love--Feb. 7, 2026
Sat, Feb 07
|Tenley-Friendship Library
Yes, we love love! So do the poets--Karl Carter and Alexa Patrick--who will read on February 7th for a SPECIAL presentation of MidnightRose: A Reading Series of Poetry & Prose. Don't Miss It.!
Time & Location
Feb 07, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA
About the event
Season 2 of MidnightRose: A Reading Series of Poetry and Prose continues with a special salute on February 7, 2026 from 1-3pm at Tenley Library (4450 Wisconsin Ave NW, DC 20016) to BLACK HISTORY, LOVE AND POETRY.
Award-winning and dynamic poets Karl Carter and Alexa Patrick bring the excitement and power to the moment. Don't Miss them. We'll give away book and other prizes as we celebrate all that matters to us!
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…