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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 14h

Queen Takes Book is located at

6955 Oakland Mills Rd, Suite E
Columbia, MD 21045-5849
Phone (301) 456-4632

HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 14h

Readings are America's new favorite past time? Come see what the hype is about next Tuesday at Queen Takes Book in Columbia, Md, where we will be hosting another Wilde Readings. Featured readers: Hannah V. Sawyerr and Ronald L. Smith. Details in the comments.

electricliterature.com/readings-mig...

Readings Might Be Turning Into America’s New Favorite Pastime - Electric Literature

Many people arrive looking to meet someone and enjoy a shared cultural experience

electricliterature.com

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 1d

“Krasznahorkai, I noticed, loved the snaking sentence, the high-wire act, mild panic steering towards a shivering fear felt by his characters, followed, in clause after clause, by fitful realisations and further reasons for gloom or alarm, and then…” Read on:

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Colm Tóibín: Why I set up a press to publish Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai

The Irish novelist discovered the Hungarian writer two decades ago, and was excited by the verbal pyrotechnics of a rule-breaking storyteller

www.theguardian.com

HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature On the Road

www.theguardian.com

HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 2d

"Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of “apocalyptic terror.”"

apnews.com/article/nobe...

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in literature for his "compelling and visionary oeuvre."

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 3d

A very special event coming up a week from this Friday at the Residence of Vantage Point. The community will host Howard County's Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate, Mai-Anh Nguyen in a conversation with Felix Facchine, Deputy Chief of Staﬀ for the County, exploring the experience the young poet.

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 4d

For more information on these and all of our upcoming events, visit hocopolitso.org.

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 4d

We took a moment to visit the #BannedBooks event at Howard Community College where we found students ghoulishly guarding the tombstones of books that have been banned. Impassioned students talked about books and the freedom to read. Great work, students.

#CensorshipIsSo1984 #FreedomToRead #Freadom

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 5d

It's Banned Books Week. How are you celebrating your fREADom?

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 24d

The announcement is TODAY! We are on the edge of our seats. We actually won't know the winner until the announcement later today at Busboys and Poets.

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 24d

Two opportunities to see Safia Elhillo -- author of the acclaimed Bright Red Fruit -- for #FREE tomorrow on the campus of Howard Community College.

12:30 p.m. Monteabaro Hall & streamed via Vimeo (link below).
6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Hall

All you need to know:
www.howardcc.edu/discover/art...

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 26d

Our new poet laureate, Arthur Sze. "Because every U.S. poet laureate designs a special focus for their term, Sze plans to explore the art of translation, with the goal of compiling an anthology of translated poems from various languages & time periods."

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Arthur Sze Named U.S. Poet Laureate

The Library of Congress has named Arthur Sze as the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2025-2026.

www.publishersweekly.com

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 29d

There's a book festival in Baltimore tomorrow.

baltimorebookfest.com/full-stage-s...

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Sep 8

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Sep 5

New season of Wilde Readings launches Tuesday evening at Columbia's fantastic independent bookstore, Queen Takes Book (6955 Oakland Mills Rd E, Columbia, MD 21045). Featured readers and open mic. Starts at 7. We'd love to see you there.

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Sep 4

Put down that book you are reading and jump into a stream.

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is your guide to the 49 pieces of essential literary film and television coming to screens this fall!

49 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall

Fall is the perfect time for curling up with a good book—or maybe a good movie. (We’re not monsters.) Even better if you can hit two birds with one stone, of course, and this after all is Literary …

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Sep 4

Calling all local (Howard County, Md) artists. Our Arts Council will have STUDIO SPACES available in their new location. Read through for details. Submission deadline is Sept 15.

www.hocoarts.org/rentals-and-...

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Aug 14

Coming up this Monday, Columbia Town Center Rotary Club is hosting an event at Cured / 18th & 21st to raise funds for youth literacy related causes, helping support county kids through signature book & reading programs.

More information and tickets through the link.

patch.com/maryland/col...

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Aug 13

Held annually in loving memory of HoCoPoLitSo’s co-founder, the 2025 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize submission window is now open.

hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Aug 12

Mark the calendar. Reading & discussion w/SAFIA ELHILLO, author of Bright Red Fruit. #BookClubs

"An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene & the dangerous new relationship that could threaten all her dreams."

Sept 18 - two readings - 12:30 & 6:30.

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Jul 16

Coming up this weekend in Bowie, Maryland:

www.thewritewomenbookfest.org#/

The Write Women Book Fest

SATURDAY JULY 19TH, 12-5pm - AUTHOR SIGNING FOR READERS & BOOK LOVERS ( Tickets Required at Bowie Comfort Inn) SUNDAY JULY 20th, 2-4pm - AUTHOR PANELS AND WRITING WORKSHOPS (Free to Public at...

www.thewritewomenbookfest.org

HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Apr 29

Tonight at 7 p.m. in the Residence at Vantage Point auditorium. 5400 Vantage Point Road, Columbia, Md.

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Apr 29

Are you or is anyone you know the next Youth Poet Laureate of Howard County? Submission window now closes on May 9th.

Apply now: www.hocoarts.org/grant/youth-...

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Apr 23

Tomorrow evening we are THRILLED to host Denice Frohman at Howard Community College in Columbia, Md, for the Blackbird Poetry Festival. Free and open to the public.

HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Apr 18

The brilliant @topefolarin.bsky.social visits The Residences at Vantage Point on Tuesday, April 22nd, 7pm. #FREE.

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