MidnightRose: A Reading Series of Poetry and Prose: Featuring Michele Evans & Sami Miranda
Sat, Nov 08
|Tenley-Friendship Library
Spend an afternoon engaged with inspiring and empowering literature and the authors who have created it.
Time & Location
Nov 08, 2025, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Guests
About the event
Join Esther Productions Inc. as it presents its second reading in Season Two, featuring Michele Evans and Samuel "Sami" Miranda.
Michele Evans is the author of poetry collection purl (Finishing Line Press), a 2025 nominee for the Maya Angelou Book Award and februaries, a chapbook forthcoming from Yellow Arrow Publishing in 2026. This fifth-generation Washingtonian (D.C.) teaches English and Creative Writing in Northern Virginia and serves as the adviser of Unbound, a nationally recognized and award-winning high school literary magazine. Prior to becoming an educator, Michele Evans studied English Language and Literature at Smith College, King's College-London, and the Graduate School at the University of Maryland. Her poetry has appeared in Artemis Journal, Bellevue Literary Review, Maryland Literary Review, Spoken Black Girl Magazine, Zora's Den, and elsewhere.
Samuel "Sami" Miranda grew up in the South Bronx and resides in Washington, DC. He is a visual artist, poet, and teacher. He is the author of Protection…