This weekend marks the return of the District’s queer spoken word summit: Capturing Fire. The three-day event takes place throughout NW D.C. and will host a slew of international performers. “I wanted to create an international network of queer spoken word poets and to fortify local queer poetry voices in Washington, D.C.,” says Regie Cabico, [...]

Local spoken-word poet Natalie Illum isn’t one of those lifelong writers who’d have you believe she was some child prodigy writing prose between cartoons and cereal on Saturday mornings. Her foray into the world of poetry was something of an accident—a lucky pick from a college course catalog that would change her life’s ambition. I first saw [...]

One of WTGG’s favorite local queer poets, Natalie Illum, will host an evening of feminist poetry, prose and performance art at The Fridge next Thursday, April 26 at 7 p.m. The event kicks off with Barcelona’s Jessica Hirst in a series of performance pieces exploring mental illness. Then, poets Molly Gaundry, Sarah Lawson and Mindy Nettifee will join [...]