The Joshua Ringel Memorial Poetry Reading honors CTY alumnus and avid poetry lover Joshua Ringel and his parents, Mel and Barbara. The event supports the arts in Baltimore by bringing a distinguished poet to the city each year for a free public poetry reading. This year's reading welcomes Rita Dove, who served as US Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award, Ms. Dove received the 2021 Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2024 Leadership Award from the Academy of American Poets among other honors.
Josh's teacher, the renowned poet Kenneth Koch, gave the inaugural Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading in 1998. Since then, many other distinguished poets have lent their voices to this remarkable series, including Richard Blanco, Terrance Hayes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Natasha Tretheway, Billy Collins, John Ashbery, and Sharon Olds. A gift from Josh's father in 2004 created an endowment at Johns Hopkins, intending to sustain the reading in perpetuity.
Schedule
2:00 PM - Doors open
2:30 PM - Reading starts
3:30-4:00 PM - Book signing
Event DateSunday, March 30, 2025Start Time: 2:00pm EDTEnd Time: 4:00pm EDT
10 Art Museum DrBaltimore, MD 21218Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading
ContactCenter for Talented YouthArpan Munier410-735-6277CTY-RSVP@jhu.edu
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