Mark Fishbein is a poet and classical guitar musician who is host to two local workshops, DC POETRY and Poetry on the Fringe (POTF), both of which meet weekly in the District. He reads at various local poetry centers and is the author of four volumes of poetry: Stances in Time: Collected Poems, Passages in Time: Poems from long ago to just the other day with an essay on poetics, 21 Poems to Dead Immortals: 21 Poems Inspired by a Declarative Statement, and 21 Sonnets Stirred Not Shaken and From a Time and Place. He is also the editor of Poets on the Fringe: An Anthology and iNK Blots, Vol. 1, an anthology of poems by the DC Poetry Collective.

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