A collage by Bill Hughes, eminent chronicler of Baltimore's cultural scene.

With Pratt Library executive director Carla Hayden displaying Mayoral Citation declaring it "CityLit Day."

Barnyard Sharks jamming at the Baltimore Book Festival.

"Aging Newspapermen's Club" lunch at Roman's in Highlandtown.

Displaying the sponsor's lanyard at AWP in Boston.

Jessica Anya Blau

I have a thing about clowns: hate 'em!

(and mimes, Punch-n-Judy shows, puppets, marrionettes, mummenschanz, the whole lot of 'em)

BBF Man vs. CLP Guy

Judy Cooper and Darlene Bookoff

Michael Downs and Geoff Becker

Em Sea Water

Elizabeth Evitts, Doug Frost, Neil Grauer

Advising writers during "Free Friday Feedback" at Baltimore Book Festival.

Tony Hayes at the Poe House Re-Opening

Neat collage with Rafael Alvarez (the first writer I published) and George Saunders (the last author I introduced).

Jen Michalski

Flyer from one of CityLit's proudest moments, co-curating a show of literature and music with the indomitable Raven Ekundayo of The Love Movement.

Burt Kummerow, Maryland Historical Society, and Scott Fuqua

Lit Dinner

Phuong Huynh, Jen Michalski, Rosalia Scalia, Holly Morse-Ellington, Caryn Coyle, Christine Stewart

Little Patuxent Review Panel at Baltimore Book Festival

LindaJoy Burke, Kathleen Hellen, Fernando Quijano III, Melanie Henderson, Derrick Weston Brown, Tony Medina (Truth Thomas moderated).

Poet Jennifer Wallace

Award ceremony for Maryland Young Writers' Contest sponsored by CityLit Project and Baltimore's Child.

Lalita Noronha

Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award winners (playwriting)

Leonora "Peachy" Dixon

Rahne Alexander

Smartish Pace editor Stephen Reichert

Pratt Contemporaries' Black & White Party

The Wayfarers

Jason Tinney and Brad Dunnells

Lizzie Skurnick

Another wonderful Bill Hughes collage.

Literary Marketplace at CityLit Festival (2014)

Joan Wilhelm (left) listens in on a talk about memoir writing.

Author Janice Gary delivers a mini-workshop on the art of memoir writing.

Poet Natasha Saje

WYPR's Tom Hall interviews National Book Award winner James McBride.

A packed auditorium for "Letters About Literature," presented by Maryland Humanities Council at CityLit Festival.

Caught at CityLit Festival (l-r): Pratt librarian Linda Schwartz, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch, National Book Award winner James McBride, author and former writer for "The Wire" Rafael Alvarez, former speechwriter for First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton Christy Macy, and Maryland Humanities Council executive director Phoebe Stein.

A family celebrates "Letters About Literature," the annual contest for youth across the state sponsored by the Maryland Humanities Council.

After years of working on Saturdays, new CityLit board member Peggy Hoffman is wowed by CityLit Festival!

Poets mark the 125th anniversary of Poet Lore, the oldest continuously published poetry journal in the United States.

Marylander Erica Dawson returned home to read poems from her latest collection, The Small Blades Hurt.

Jason Ockert, Gregg Wilhelm, Jeff Parker, Nathan Deuel

Wesley Stace and WTMD's Erik Deatherage

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