For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Montgomery County Public Libraries announces that award-winning poet Lydia Wei, a senior at Richard Montgomery High School, will be the special guest of DiVerse Gaithersburg on Sunday, Nov. 10, at 2 p.m., at the Quince Orchard Library at 15831 Quince Orchard Road in Gaithersburg.
Wei is one of 15 winners, chosen from an international field of 6,000 poets, in the U.K.’s Poetry Society’s "Foyle Young Poets of the Year 2019" competition for her poem, the opioid diaries. Her poem, Bulletholes, was selected by Maryland Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri as the first-place winner of the 2019 Gaithersburg Book Festival’s High School Poetry Contest. Wei lives in Gaithersburg and is a former participant in the Quince Orchard Library Teen Poetry Writing Group.
Wei will be reading along with three featured poets, Tanya Olson, Katherine Gekker, and Miles David Moore, at the monthly DiVerse Gaithersburg poetry reading event.
For more information about DiVerse Gaithersburg, the adult poets who will be reading in November, and about future poetry readings: diversepoetry.com.
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Release ID: 19-364