Cedric Tillman's Blog - Posts Tagged "the-literary-cypher"

Many thanks to LP Kersey of the Literary Cypher, a DMV area reading series, for reaching out to me and giving me a chance to fellowship with other DMV writers (if only through Facebook). She usually have 8 readers go for about 8 minutes and though we didn't know each other for the most part, it was like family in the room. I was thrilled to be able to read with my American University classmate and "susta" Venus Thrash, and got to hear the work of Dr. Michele Simms-Burton, someone I'd gotten acquainted with via Facebook without having had the pleasure of hearing her creative output. Other readers included novelist Heather Elizabeth King, poetry duo Wilnona & Jade, poets Janique Muckelvene and Destiny Hemphill, and writer/journalist Lottie Joiner.