SMILE, HON represents at 9th annual CityLit Festival

BALTIMORE, Md. – Count Eight-Stone Press (ESP) among the horde of local imprints represented in the Literary Marketplace at Baltimore’s ninth annual CityLit Festival, held from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. this Saturday, April 14, 2012, at the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s Central Branch in downtown Baltimore. Stop by the ESP table to meet William P. Tandy, editor and publisher of ESP’s long-running, critically acclaimed Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! series, and pick up the latest issue, or peruse the back catalogue and a variety of Smile, Hon merchandise.

Hailed as “a can’t-miss event on the city’s cultural scene” by Baltimore Magazine, CityLit Festival is a collaborative effort between CityLit Project and the Pratt Library. This year’s Festival headliners include Kwame Alexander, Edward Hirsch, Thomas Lux and Benjamin Busch. Jennifer Bodine, daughter of legendary Baltimore Sun photographer A. Aubrey Bodine and curator of his work, will deliver a slideshow lecture on her latest book, Bodine’s City: The Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine, highlighting her father’s artistic eye. (Read William P. Tandy’s review of Bodine’s City in Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! No. 15.)

For more information, visit the official CityLit Festival website.

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SMILE, HON: April Events

BALTIMORE, Md. – It’s a busy month for Eight-Stone Press (ESP), in the wake of publishing Hon: Past, Present & Future, the latest theme issue in ESP’s long-running Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! series.

First up, don't miss what Baltimore Magazine has called "a can't miss event on the city's cultural scene" as CityLit Project partners with the Enoch Pratt Free Library for the eighth time to present the annual CityLit Festival, Baltimore's day-long celebration of literature, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. this Saturday, April 16, 2011, at the Pratt’s Central Branch in downtown Baltimore. Stop by the Eight-Stone Press table in the Literary Marketplace to pick up a copy of Hon: Past, Present & Future, back issues of Smile, Hon and more. This year's Festival headliners are Danielle Evans, Andrei Codrescu, and Jaimy Gordon. For more information, visit the event website.

Next up, join Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! for an evening of Mobtown-infused verse from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Monday, April 18, 2011, at the Towson Public Library, 320 York Road, Towson, MD 21204, part of the 6^th Annual Cruelest Month Poetry and Performance Festival co-sponsored by the Towson Arts Collective and the Baltimore County Public Library. Presenting authors include Heck, Sarah Jane Miller, Fernando Quijano III, S.J. Ferrandi and more; Smile, Hon editor William P. Tandy hosts. Want to try your own hand? This free event will also feature an open-mic session. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, visit the Festival website.

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A. AUBREY BODINE Slideshow/Lecture October 18 at the Pratt Main Branch

BALTIMORE - Jennifer Bodine, daughter of legendary Baltimore Sun photographer A. Aubrey Bodine and proprietor of AAubreyBodine.com, will present a slide-illustrated talk about the life and work of her father, whose photographs captured the essence of life in Baltimore and Maryland from the 1930s and beyond, beginning at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, October 18, in the Poe Room of the Central Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. (Copies of Bodine’s Chesapeake Bay Country will be on sale following the program.) Jeff Korman, Manager of the Central Library’s Maryland Department, will also talk about the work of the Federal Writers Project in Maryland and Maryland, A Guide to the Old Line State.

Bodine Slideshow/Lecture on October 18 in Baltimore

Jennifer Bodine, daughter of legendary Baltimore Sun photographer A. Aubrey Bodine and proprietor of AAubreyBodine.com, will present a slide-illustrated talk about the life and work of her father, whose photographs captured the essence of life in Baltimore and Maryland from the 1930s and beyond, beginning at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, October 18, in the Poe Room of the Central Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. (Copies of Bodine’s Chesapeake Bay Country will be on sale following the program.) Jeff Korman, Manager of the Central Library’s Maryland Department, will also talk about the work of the Federal Writers Project in Maryland and Maryland, A Guide to the Old Line State.