Red Emma’s

From October through May, we'll meet for two hours on the third Saturday of every month except December, when we’ll meet on the first Saturday of the month. Each time you'll get to read a poem you're working on and get feedback on it and write to a poetry prompt. Some months will feature guest poets from the region.

If you would like to share a poem with the group, please email it to wir@prattlibrary.org before the workshop starts so we can make copies.

Each writing workshop has a limited capacity, and registration is required. To register for any or all of the workshops in the series, please fill out this form and await confirmation from the event hosts.

These are the dates, times, and locations for all of the workshops:

Saturday, October 18, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Red Emma's* Saturday, November 15, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library Saturday, December 6, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library Saturday, January 17, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library Saturday, February 21, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library Saturday, March 21, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library Saturday, April 18, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library Saturday, May 16, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library

Attendance at all eight workshops is encouraged but not required. Just be sure to register for each one you plan to attend.

*Please note the unusual location for the first workshop , and please allow extra travel time on account of the Baltimore Running Festival.

Funding for the Pratt Hackerman Artist & Writer in Residence program has been provided through the generosity of The Hackerman Foundation.

Taylor Johnson is from Washington, DC. He is the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and a 2024 Whiting Award. His work appears in Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers from Lambda Literary. Taylor was the inaugural 2022 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. He was the Poet Laureate of Takoma Park, Maryland, from 2022 to 2025.

Photo of Taylor Johnson by S*an D. Henry-Smith.