Veterans Day Reading

Disabled veteran and teaching artist Kari Ann Martindale will do a reading of some of her war-themed poetry, including The List, which she read at the White House in 2024. Readings include personal Gulf War-era experiences, references to her grandfather’s WWII service, and an elegy to a veteran who served in Vietnam and Korea.  (FREE, OPEN TO PUBLIC)

Kari Martindale (M.A., Linguistics) is a poet, community-builder, and teaching artist who has read at Arts guilds across Maryland and performed at the White House. Several of her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and received honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. Kari sat on the Board of Maryland Writers’ Association from 2019-2025, serving most of that time as President of the Frederick chapter, and has served on judging panels for Maryland State Arts Council, Poetry Out Loud, and League of Utah Writers. She is the former co-editor of Pen in Hand, teaches for Armed Services Arts Partnership, and has sat on judging and selection committees for a number of anthologies. Kari is a veteran of the US Air Force, is multilingual, and has visited all 50 States and over 40 countries. She now lives in Alaska with her husband, dog, and whichever family, friends, or foster animals are home at any given time.

Where: Frederick Book Arts Center

127 South Carroll St.

Frederick, MD 21701

When: November 11th,7pm-8pm (reading followed by Q&A, mingle)