Day Eight and the Mariposa Poetry Retreat are pleased to present a capacity-building retreat for DC area poets April 15, 2023 from 11am to 4pm. Jeffrey Banks and Maritza Rivera, editors of the poetry anthology Diaspora Café: D.C., are faculty directors for the retreat, joined by keynote E. Ethelbert Miller.

Stephani E. D. McDow is a 2023 Diaspora Cafe Writers Retreat Fellow