With spring comes CITYLIT, an annual literary festival in Baltimore, Maryland, that has been running for three years past two decades now, and returns on Saturday, April 11, 2026, from 10 AM to 5 PM. CITYLIT offers a curated, wild bouquet of intriguing readings, panel discussions, and a free-form Literary Marketplace with about twenty or thirty magazines, artists, writings, small presses, and other literary related creators tabling for the day. Ages ago, I saw Mark Doty read at CITYLIT; last year I too pursued the literary marketplace for a great and informative time; this year, I shall be tabling and talking to folks in support of my new book of poems, Singing the Forge (Wasteland Press 2025).
Mark your calendars.
CITYLIT will be held at the Maryland Center for History and Culture, which has an entrance either on 610 Park Avenue or 200 West Centre Street in Baltimore; I suspect the entrance is on Centre Street. You can find more, as well as the lineup and the right door, at the CITYLIT link here: www.citylitproject.org
By May 1, 2026, Singing the Forge shall be one year old. It’s been a fun year, and the book is my sixth overall, yet also decades in the making.
Right now, I have three more readings lined up in May and July 2026, and probably will read from Singing the Forge through the end of this year, fingers crossed.
I hope to see you at the 23rd Annual CityLit Festival! For real, it’s a low-key, good time.
Stay chill, stay fresh, stay grounded.
Cheers,
G. H. Mosson
Maryland, USA