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Gaithersburg
Book Festival

May 17, 2025

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Moderator

Gregory Luce

Latest Title: Smells Like Rain
Smells Like Rain
Smells Like Rain by Gregory Luce

This is a collection is from a mature poet with a refined voice. Some of the work includes reminiscences of his youth in rural America. Luce also reflects on his Confederate ancestors, and how the values that motivated them have lost context in today’s multicultural society. Another theme is how pioneering jazz musicians have provided him with inspiration. What ties together this bundle of topics is the poet’s calm, lucid voice.

About Gregory Luce

Gregory Luce is the author of “Signs of Small Grace,” “Drinking Weather,” “Tile” and “Riffs & Improvisations.” His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals and in the anthologies, “Living in Storms” (Eastern Washington University Press), “Written in Arlington” (Paycock Press) and “This Is What America Looks Like” (Washington Writers Publishing House). In 2014, he was awarded the Larry Neal Award for adult poetry by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He is retired from the National Geographic Society, volunteers as a writing tutor/mentor for 826DC, and lives in Arlington, Va.

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