The Poet and the Poem
2026-27 Series

Featured Christina Daub and Ellen Wise

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Christina Daub won the 2026 Enoch Pratt Poetry Prize and has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Co-founder and co-editor of the international poetry journal, The Plum Review, she co-curated The Plum Reading Series and Plum Writers Retreats as well. She has taught poetry at George Washington University, The Writer’s Center and at several schools in the Maryland and Virginia poets-in-the-schools and pick-a-poet programs. She is also a translator of poetry from Spanish and German. You can reach her at christinadaub.com. 

Ellen Wise’s poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals including Nimrod International Journal, Quercus Review, Beltway Quarterly Review, Delmarva Review, Delaware Poetry Review, Quartet Journal, and elsewhere. Her work has been published in several anthologies, most recently A Gathering of Poets. She was awarded Bread Loaf's Donald Everett Axinn Scholarship in Poetry, a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. Noted American composer Adolphus Hailstork selected five of her poems for the song-cycle, Ventriloquist Acts of God. She lives on Maryland’s Eastern Shore where she organizes an annual poetry retreat at Washington College.

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