MidnightRose: A Reading Series of Poetry and Prose-Featuring Anne Becker, Kenneth Carroll, III & Richard Peabody
Sat, Dec 13
|Tenley-Friendship Library
Three exciting poets promise to fire up the winter afternoon.


Time & Location
Dec 13, 2025, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Guests
About the event
They have all enriched DC's literary community--a couple longer than others. Still, they are exciting poets. Come and be inspired by Anne Becker, Kenneth Carroll and Richard Peabody.
Anne Becker, poet, editor, teacher and producer, has been a member of the Washington area poetry community for over half a century. Author of three books of poetry, Human Animal (Pond Road Press, 2018), The Transmutation Notebooks: Poems in the Voices of Charles and Emma Darwin, and The Good Body, she has produced over 70 recordings of poets reading their work as well as programs for public radio. For many years she’s taught from her home in Takoma Park, MD, where she leads workshops and tutorials for those putting chapbooks and full-length collections of poetry together. In 2001 she developed a special poetry workshop, Writing the Body, for those who have experience with life-threatening or chronic illness. Currently, she is a poetry editor…