Kensington Day of the Book Festival,Sunday,April 23 from 11 AM to 4 PM

Join us at the 16th Annual Kensington Day of the Book Festival Sunday, April 23, 2023

from 11-4pm Howard Ave, Old Town Kensington, Maryland www.dayofthebook.com

Author Esther Schwartz-McKinzie (“Speaking Out: Families of LGBTQ + Advance the Dialogue”) will be signing copies from 11 am to 1 pm.

Stop by and visit with poet Robert L. Giron who will also be at the Gival Press Table and who will read from his work at the Poetry Round Reading at 1 pm.

While not for sale, the anthology, "Arlington Poets in Solidarity with Ukraine" will be available for donations to go to UkrainianTrustChain.org.

Other books by Gival Press authors will also be available.

AWP Seattle-2023 Report

Seattle was very good to us. Countless folks stopped by to introduce themselves to us and many bought books—nice!

Our 25th Anniversary Reading at the Mayflower Park Hotel with Cliff Bernier, who also played his harmonica for us, John Domini, Cecilia Martinez-Gil, Thad Rukowski, and Esther Schwartz-McKinzie was a great success. The poetry and chocolates went down with the Prosecco nicely. Sorry Jeff Walt and Teri Ellen Cross Davis were not able to join us at the reading. We wish we had asked Ken to read from his Melville book.

Robert L. Giron followed Cliff's opening music with his poem "We the Tumbleweeds" and others followed.

Here are some photos from the four-day conference/bookfair.

Ken Schellenberg.

Cliff Bernier on his harmonica.

Robert L. Giron, Cliff Bernier, Esther Schwartz-McKinzie, Cecilia Martinez-Gil, John Domini, and Thad Rutkowski (left to right).

Teri Ellen Cross Davis

AWP 2023 (photos!)

We are here in Seattle at table 600. We'll be adding to this post as people drop by.