Celebrate National Poetry Month with Cherrie Woods aka Cherrie Amour. Cherrie Woods (aka Cherrie Amour) is a Baltimore-based award-winning poet whose candid, narrative style of poetic verse is shared in her book, Free to Be Me: Poems on Love, Life, and Relationships. A native of the Caribbean, Cherrie has been featured in The Baltimore Beacon, Fox45-TV, and Baltimore City Paper. Her poems have been published in the Paterson Literary Review, Understorey Magazine, Poet's Ink, The Fire Inside: Collected Poems and Stories from Zora’s Den, and Maryland in Poetry. She is working on her second book of poetry called Sit Comfortably Elsewhere. Connect with her on FB, IG, and at cherrieamour.com

Participants are also encouraged to share their Caribbean-influenced poetry or their favorite Caribbean poet.