Forget Why Poetry Series - Theodora Danylevich, Casey Smith, & Tom Mandel

Saturday October 10 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Theodora Danylevich is a DC Poet who also teaches Writing and Disability Studies at Georgetown. Some of her poetry has appeared in Vanitas and Phoebe. She’s into short forms, collaborations, and endless homophonic translations of aged epic poems. She occasionally sings and writes for Jacky Cougar and the Vampyres from Africa.

Casey Smith (he/him) is a human born in Pasadena, CA in 1965,CE. He taught for nearly 20 years at the deceased Corcoran College of Art + Design alongside Doug Lang, Beth Joselow, Bernard Welt, Nan Fry, and other inspiring educators. He is a Virgo, and his favorite color is light navy blue. He is now the Executive Director of the Frederick Book Arts Center. His poems have appeared in print and online here and there.

Tom Mandel is the author/co-author of more than 20 books/chapbooks including Realism, Letters of the Law, To the Cognoscenti, and The Grand Piano, a ten-volume experiment in collaborative autobiography by San Francisco Language Poets. Mandel’s writing has been published in newspapers, literary journals and anthologies around the world, including the influential In the American Tree and The Norton Anthology of Post-Modern Verse (First Edition). His work has appeared in multiple volumes of Best American Poetry and in French in 49+1: Poètes Americain. Mandel has taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois and San Francisco State University, where he was Director of SFSU Poetry Center. He has also been a consultant to UNESCO and a technology entrepreneur. Active on the Internet since the early 1990s, he was an early thought leader in collaborative software and media. Tom Mandel grew up in Chicago and was educated in its jazz and blues clubs and on the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought. He lived in New York, Paris, and San Francisco before moving to the Washington DC area.