Larew founded Poetry X Hunger in 2018. His seventh collection of poems, This Much Very, was published in 2025 by Alien Buddha Press. His poems have received the Louisiana Literature Prize, the Washington Review poetry blue ribbon and have been nominated for five Pushcarts and a Best of the Net Award. His work appears widely including in recent issues of Poetry South, The Brown Critique, San Antonio Review, Contemporary American Voices, Honest Ulsterman, Iowa Review, Amsterdam Quarterly and Best Poetry Online. Recipient of grants from state and county Arts Councils as well as the United Nations for his Poetry X Hunger initiative which uses powerful poetry by poets worldwide to alleviate hunger, he is also the founder of Voices of Woodlawn, a powerful program of poetry, music and art that explores America’s tragic history of plantation-based slavery.
He assists Baltimore (MD) WBJC Classical Radio (91.5 FM) to identify poets for featuring on the widely broadcast Booknotes program and is a Board Member of The InkWELL.
Dr. Larew is a Courtesy Faculty at five U. S. universities. He lives in Maryland, USA.
When I speak twig
above me
the sounds are unimaginable
Each swollen bud laces its shoes
and those earwigs their pinches
squeak out to my growing
gold day
They grab my damp heart in-waiting…
- From In-Waiting
www.HiramLarewPoetry.com
Hiram Larew | Maryland State Arts Council
Hiram Larew | Poets & Writers
He assists Baltimore (MD) WBJC Classical Radio (91.5 FM) to identify poets for featuring on the widely broadcast Booknotes program and is a Board Member of The InkWELL.
Dr. Larew is a Courtesy Faculty at five U. S. universities. He lives in Maryland, USA.
When I speak twig
above me
the sounds are unimaginable
Each swollen bud laces its shoes
and those earwigs their pinches
squeak out to my growing
gold day
They grab my damp heart in-waiting…
- From In-Waiting
www.HiramLarewPoetry.com
Hiram Larew | Maryland State Arts Council
Hiram Larew | Poets & Writers
Christina Daub, Leader
Christina Daub is the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Turning Poetry into Food, A Collection of Poetry X HungerPoems. She co-founded The Plum Review, an international award winning poetry journal, started The Plum Writers' Retreats and The Plum Reading Series which featured Joseph Brodsky, Carolyn Forché, Mark Strand and many others. Her work appears in Another Chicago Magazine, Bellevue Literary Journal, Gargoyle, ONE ART, Poet Lore, Poetry Travels, Potomac Review, The Southampton Review, Shō Poetry Journal, Stone Circle Review among others. Her poems are also in the anthologies WWPH's America, What the House Knows, Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC, as well as 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, and The Paradelle, both edited by Billy Collins. She has been translated into Russian, Italian, German and Greek. She taught Poetry and Creative Writing in the English Department at George Washington University and in both the Maryland and Virginia Poets-in-the-Schools programs as well as to adults for many years at The Writer's Center. Her poem, "Charge" was featured by the New York Society Library during National Poetry Month 2024 as well as Pathways magazine, having been originally published by PoetryXHunger.com. "Greening" was nominated best of the Net in 2024 and “At the One Step,” received a 2017 Pushcart Prize nomination. She has translated the poetry of Blanca Wiethüchter and Friederike Mayröcker and has written for The Writer's Chronicle and translated for The Austrian Riveter. She has an MFA in Poetry from University of Maryland. You can find out more at christinadaub.com
Christina Daub is the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Turning Poetry into Food, A Collection of Poetry X HungerPoems. She co-founded The Plum Review, an international award winning poetry journal, started The Plum Writers' Retreats and The Plum Reading Series which featured Joseph Brodsky, Carolyn Forché, Mark Strand and many others. Her work appears in Another Chicago Magazine, Bellevue Literary Journal, Gargoyle, ONE ART, Poet Lore, Poetry Travels, Potomac Review, The Southampton Review, Shō Poetry Journal, Stone Circle Review among others. Her poems are also in the anthologies WWPH's America, What the House Knows, Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC, as well as 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, and The Paradelle, both edited by Billy Collins. She has been translated into Russian, Italian, German and Greek. She taught Poetry and Creative Writing in the English Department at George Washington University and in both the Maryland and Virginia Poets-in-the-Schools programs as well as to adults for many years at The Writer's Center. Her poem, "Charge" was featured by the New York Society Library during National Poetry Month 2024 as well as Pathways magazine, having been originally published by PoetryXHunger.com. "Greening" was nominated best of the Net in 2024 and “At the One Step,” received a 2017 Pushcart Prize nomination. She has translated the poetry of Blanca Wiethüchter and Friederike Mayröcker and has written for The Writer's Chronicle and translated for The Austrian Riveter. She has an MFA in Poetry from University of Maryland. You can find out more at christinadaub.com