HoCoPoLitSo
@hocopolitso.bsky.social
Write to your ear. A community non-profit arts organization out of Columbia, Maryland, producing literary readings & other events and the TV show The Writing Life. HoCoPoLitSo.org
Ross Gay is delight full. Come see for yourself as he joins us for a Happiness Hour at 5:30 on Friday, November 7th in Columbia, Maryland.
For all you need to know and tickets, visit hocopolitso.org.
Direct ticket link: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
Tickets just $25.
For all you need to know and tickets, visit hocopolitso.org.
Direct ticket link: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
Tickets just $25.
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Ross Gay is delight full. Come see for yourself as he joins us for a Happiness Hour at 5:30 on Friday, November 7th in Columbia, Maryland.
For all you need to know and tickets, visit hocopolitso.org.
Direct ticket link: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
Tickets just $25.
For all you need to know and tickets, visit hocopolitso.org.
Direct ticket link: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
Tickets just $25.
You kept telling us. We kept looking in the wrong place. Thanks for your persistence. The ghost of last year's contest that has been haunting our website has now been exercised. Sincere apologies for that inconvenience. You can now visit HoCoPoLitSo.org for a no-ghosts go at entering the contest.
October 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
You kept telling us. We kept looking in the wrong place. Thanks for your persistence. The ghost of last year's contest that has been haunting our website has now been exercised. Sincere apologies for that inconvenience. You can now visit HoCoPoLitSo.org for a no-ghosts go at entering the contest.
How are YOU practicing delight?
One of the things that is delighting us to no end is that we have Ross Gay coming to Columbia on November 7th. It is the not-to-miss end of our 50th season. We'll be even more delighted if you join us. Details in the comments.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2EE...
One of the things that is delighting us to no end is that we have Ross Gay coming to Columbia on November 7th. It is the not-to-miss end of our 50th season. We'll be even more delighted if you join us. Details in the comments.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2EE...
HOW TO FIND DELIGHT TODAY (AND EVERY DAY) WITH ROSS GAY: WCDHT EP 216
YouTube video by Glennon Doyle
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October 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
How are YOU practicing delight?
One of the things that is delighting us to no end is that we have Ross Gay coming to Columbia on November 7th. It is the not-to-miss end of our 50th season. We'll be even more delighted if you join us. Details in the comments.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2EE...
One of the things that is delighting us to no end is that we have Ross Gay coming to Columbia on November 7th. It is the not-to-miss end of our 50th season. We'll be even more delighted if you join us. Details in the comments.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2EE...
Tickets, just $25. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
October 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Tickets, just $25. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
Are you the next Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize winner? We are looking forward to seeing your work!
For all you need to know and to enter, visit:
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
For all you need to know and to enter, visit:
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
October 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Are you the next Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize winner? We are looking forward to seeing your work!
For all you need to know and to enter, visit:
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
For all you need to know and to enter, visit:
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
Readings are America's new favorite past time? Come see what the hype is about next Tuesday at Queen Takes Book in Columbia, Md, where we will be hosting another Wilde Readings. Featured readers: Hannah V. Sawyerr and Ronald L. Smith. Details in the comments.
electricliterature.com/readings-mig...
electricliterature.com/readings-mig...
Readings Might Be Turning Into America’s New Favorite Pastime - Electric Literature
Many people arrive looking to meet someone and enjoy a shared cultural experience
electricliterature.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Readings are America's new favorite past time? Come see what the hype is about next Tuesday at Queen Takes Book in Columbia, Md, where we will be hosting another Wilde Readings. Featured readers: Hannah V. Sawyerr and Ronald L. Smith. Details in the comments.
electricliterature.com/readings-mig...
electricliterature.com/readings-mig...
“Krasznahorkai, I noticed, loved the snaking sentence, the high-wire act, mild panic steering towards a shivering fear felt by his characters, followed, in clause after clause, by fitful realisations and further reasons for gloom or alarm, and then…” Read on:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Colm Tóibín: Why I set up a press to publish Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai
The Irish novelist discovered the Hungarian writer two decades ago, and was excited by the verbal pyrotechnics of a rule-breaking storyteller
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“Krasznahorkai, I noticed, loved the snaking sentence, the high-wire act, mild panic steering towards a shivering fear felt by his characters, followed, in clause after clause, by fitful realisations and further reasons for gloom or alarm, and then…” Read on:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
"Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of “apocalyptic terror.”"
apnews.com/article/nobe...
apnews.com/article/nobe...
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in literature for his "compelling and visionary oeuvre."
apnews.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of “apocalyptic terror.”"
apnews.com/article/nobe...
apnews.com/article/nobe...
A very special event coming up a week from this Friday at the Residence of Vantage Point. The community will host Howard County's Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate, Mai-Anh Nguyen in a conversation with Felix Facchine, Deputy Chief of Staff for the County, exploring the experience the young poet.
October 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A very special event coming up a week from this Friday at the Residence of Vantage Point. The community will host Howard County's Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate, Mai-Anh Nguyen in a conversation with Felix Facchine, Deputy Chief of Staff for the County, exploring the experience the young poet.
For more information on these and all of our upcoming events, visit hocopolitso.org.
October 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
For more information on these and all of our upcoming events, visit hocopolitso.org.
We took a moment to visit the #BannedBooks event at Howard Community College where we found students ghoulishly guarding the tombstones of books that have been banned. Impassioned students talked about books and the freedom to read. Great work, students.
#CensorshipIsSo1984 #FreedomToRead #Freadom
#CensorshipIsSo1984 #FreedomToRead #Freadom
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We took a moment to visit the #BannedBooks event at Howard Community College where we found students ghoulishly guarding the tombstones of books that have been banned. Impassioned students talked about books and the freedom to read. Great work, students.
#CensorshipIsSo1984 #FreedomToRead #Freadom
#CensorshipIsSo1984 #FreedomToRead #Freadom
It's Banned Books Week. How are you celebrating your fREADom?
October 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It's Banned Books Week. How are you celebrating your fREADom?
The announcement is TODAY! We are on the edge of our seats. We actually won't know the winner until the announcement later today at Busboys and Poets.
September 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The announcement is TODAY! We are on the edge of our seats. We actually won't know the winner until the announcement later today at Busboys and Poets.
Two opportunities to see Safia Elhillo -- author of the acclaimed Bright Red Fruit -- for #FREE tomorrow on the campus of Howard Community College.
12:30 p.m. Monteabaro Hall & streamed via Vimeo (link below).
6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Hall
All you need to know:
www.howardcc.edu/discover/art...
12:30 p.m. Monteabaro Hall & streamed via Vimeo (link below).
6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Hall
All you need to know:
www.howardcc.edu/discover/art...
September 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Two opportunities to see Safia Elhillo -- author of the acclaimed Bright Red Fruit -- for #FREE tomorrow on the campus of Howard Community College.
12:30 p.m. Monteabaro Hall & streamed via Vimeo (link below).
6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Hall
All you need to know:
www.howardcc.edu/discover/art...
12:30 p.m. Monteabaro Hall & streamed via Vimeo (link below).
6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Hall
All you need to know:
www.howardcc.edu/discover/art...
Our new poet laureate, Arthur Sze. "Because every U.S. poet laureate designs a special focus for their term, Sze plans to explore the art of translation, with the goal of compiling an anthology of translated poems from various languages & time periods."
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Arthur Sze Named U.S. Poet Laureate
The Library of Congress has named Arthur Sze as the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2025-2026.
www.publishersweekly.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Our new poet laureate, Arthur Sze. "Because every U.S. poet laureate designs a special focus for their term, Sze plans to explore the art of translation, with the goal of compiling an anthology of translated poems from various languages & time periods."
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
September 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
New season of Wilde Readings launches Tuesday evening at Columbia's fantastic independent bookstore, Queen Takes Book (6955 Oakland Mills Rd E, Columbia, MD 21045). Featured readers and open mic. Starts at 7. We'd love to see you there.
September 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
New season of Wilde Readings launches Tuesday evening at Columbia's fantastic independent bookstore, Queen Takes Book (6955 Oakland Mills Rd E, Columbia, MD 21045). Featured readers and open mic. Starts at 7. We'd love to see you there.
Put down that book you are reading and jump into a stream.
This is your guide to the 49 pieces of essential literary film and television coming to screens this fall!
49 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall
Fall is the perfect time for curling up with a good book—or maybe a good movie. (We’re not monsters.) Even better if you can hit two birds with one stone, of course, and this after all is Literary …
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September 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Put down that book you are reading and jump into a stream.
Calling all local (Howard County, Md) artists. Our Arts Council will have STUDIO SPACES available in their new location. Read through for details. Submission deadline is Sept 15.
www.hocoarts.org/rentals-and-...
www.hocoarts.org/rentals-and-...
September 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Calling all local (Howard County, Md) artists. Our Arts Council will have STUDIO SPACES available in their new location. Read through for details. Submission deadline is Sept 15.
www.hocoarts.org/rentals-and-...
www.hocoarts.org/rentals-and-...
Coming up this Monday, Columbia Town Center Rotary Club is hosting an event at Cured / 18th & 21st to raise funds for youth literacy related causes, helping support county kids through signature book & reading programs.
More information and tickets through the link.
patch.com/maryland/col...
More information and tickets through the link.
patch.com/maryland/col...
August 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Coming up this Monday, Columbia Town Center Rotary Club is hosting an event at Cured / 18th & 21st to raise funds for youth literacy related causes, helping support county kids through signature book & reading programs.
More information and tickets through the link.
patch.com/maryland/col...
More information and tickets through the link.
patch.com/maryland/col...
Held annually in loving memory of HoCoPoLitSo’s co-founder, the 2025 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize submission window is now open.
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
August 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Held annually in loving memory of HoCoPoLitSo’s co-founder, the 2025 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize submission window is now open.
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
Mark the calendar. Reading & discussion w/SAFIA ELHILLO, author of Bright Red Fruit. #BookClubs
"An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene & the dangerous new relationship that could threaten all her dreams."
Sept 18 - two readings - 12:30 & 6:30.
"An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene & the dangerous new relationship that could threaten all her dreams."
Sept 18 - two readings - 12:30 & 6:30.
August 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Mark the calendar. Reading & discussion w/SAFIA ELHILLO, author of Bright Red Fruit. #BookClubs
"An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene & the dangerous new relationship that could threaten all her dreams."
Sept 18 - two readings - 12:30 & 6:30.
"An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene & the dangerous new relationship that could threaten all her dreams."
Sept 18 - two readings - 12:30 & 6:30.
