Party with MahoganyBooks DC

MahoganyBooks is excited to bring world renowned poet and author, Tara Betts, to Washington, D.C. The event will take place at U-topia on Monday, September 20, 6:30 p.m.– 8:30 p.m. This event celebrates the one year anniversary of Tara Betts’ debut poetry collection, Arc & Hue.

The evening’s highlights will feature Tara Betts and special guest poets, Derrick Weston Brown, Sonya Renee, & Truth Thomas, reading from her acclaimed book in the relaxing, eclectic atmosphere of U-topia.

Guest poets Derrick Weston Brown is a Cave Canem fellow and the poet-in-residence at Busboys & Poets and author of the upcoming collection Wisdom Teeth; Sonya Renee is a National Poetry Slam Champion and author of A Little Truth on Your Shirt (GirlChild Press, 2010); and Truth Thomas, author of A Day of Presence and Bottle of Life (both on flipped eye press), has appeared in: African Voices, Art Times, the anthology Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora and many more.