Congratulations to Kanak Gupta whose poem, “Death in Dubai” won the 2018 Enoch Pratt Free Library / Little Patuxent Review Poetry Contest.

There were 236 poems submitted to the 2018 Poetry Contest, representing 70 cities and towns and 19 counties in Maryland (18 counties plus Baltimore City).

You can hear Kanak read her winning poem at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 14, at the CityLit Festival, which will take place at the University of Baltimore’s William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center at 11 West Mt. Royal Avenue.

Her poem will be also be published in the Summer 2018 issue of Little Patuxent Review and celebrated in a special Pratt Library event on Tuesday, August 21, at 6:30 p.m.