Season 2 of MidnightRose: A Reading Series of Poetry and Prose continues with a special salute on February 7, 2026 from 1-3pm at Tenley Library (4450 Wisconsin Ave NW, DC 20016) to BLACK HISTORY, LOVE AND POETRY.
Award-winning and dynamic poets Karl Carter and Alexa Patrick bring the excitement and power to the moment. Don't Miss them. We'll give away book and other prizes as we celebrate all that matters to us!
Alexa Patrick is a vocalist and poet from Connecticut. She is the author of Remedies for Disappearing (Haymarket Books, 2023) and holds fellowships from Cave Canem, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and more. Previous artistic partnerships of Alexa’s include Meta, Microsoft, The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. In spring 2023, Alexa made her stage production debut as Un/Sung in the opera We Shall Not Be Moved, (dire. Bill T. Jones). Her work appears in a variety of publications, including Adroit, The Rumpus, CRWN Magazine, and The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic..
Karl W. Carter, Jr., is an award-winning poet, who was born in New Orleans, grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in the Washington, D.C. region. He is the twice recipient of the International AAHGS Book Award (IABA) given by The African American Historical and Genealogical Society for his books Traveler (2024) and Southern Road (2019). His works appear in numerous anthologies, including Wole Soyinka: The Herald at 90, A Bilingual Collection of Poems and Essays,(Pan-African Writer’s Association, 2024); Africanization and Americanization Anthology, Africa v. North America, Vol.1,(Mwanak Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd 2018); Words of Protest, Words of Freedom, Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement(Duke University Press, 2012); Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Black Earth Institute, The Broadkill Review, Delaware Poetry Review, Poet Lore and Drum Voices, 20th Anniversary Editon, (2012); Freedom In My Heart: Voices from the United States Slavery Museum (National Geographic, 2009); Off The Record: An Anthology of Pomes by Lawyers, (Legal Studies Forum, University of West Viriginia, College of Law, 2004), among others.