Situated in rural, Northern Baltimore County, Maryland, is Manor Mill, a newly restored, pre-revolutionary grist mill that serves the local area as a creative hub of music, arts and crafts. Since November 2022, surrounded by the beautiful artwork in its galleries, monthly poetry open mic nights have delighted and dazzled. These anthologies celebrate the vibrant poetry community that meets regularly to write and share their work.

Volume I

Edited by Robert R. Bowie and Mel Edden, this first anthology was published in response to the Mill's growing community of poets. It contains original work by forty-two of its featured poets and open mic participants.

Included in this volume: David Beaudouin, F. David Bolton, Robert R. Bowie Jr, Shirley J. Brewer, Mark Brine, Alan Britt, Virginia Crawford, Dan Cuddy, Raymond Cummings, Mel Edden, Michael Fallon, Virginia Friedman, Jill Goodman, Clarinda Harriss, Thom Hawkins, David Hofstetter, Matt Hohner, Stephen Hollaway, John Hutchinson, Jennifer Keith, Ruhi Khanna, Zoe Leonard, Steven Leyva, Kathy Mangan, Kari Martindale, S.B. Merrow, Derek H. Miller, Erika Miller, Douglas Mowbray, Matthew Milad Nikzad, Rachel M. Novak, Alan C. Reese, Gary Siebert, Lauren H. Smith, Heather Sowers, Otis Sprow, David Stant, Chrissy Stegman, Jennifer A Sutherland, Nicole Tsygan, Kaitlin Wachter and Bolling Willse Sr.

Volume II

Edited by Mel Edden, the second anthology demonstrates the vast range of poets frequenting Manor Mill’s poetry events, and contains poems written by ninety-nine of its featured poets and open mic participants, plus poets who attend the monthly poetry workshops at Hereford Library.

Included in this volume: Linda Lee Adams, Holly Alsruhe, Indran Amirthanayagam, Zeina Azzam, Ned Balbo, Polly Bart, Faith-Anne Bell, Donald Berger, Alan Bogage, David Bolton, Robert R. Bowie Jr., Shirley J. Brewer, Mark Brine, Lady Brion, Alan Britt, Charon Burda, Teresa Cavagnaro, Jenna Cipolloni, Jona Colson, Virginia Crawford, Dan Cuddy, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Hayes Davis, Sky Davis, Nicholas DeVincenzo, E. Doyle-Gillespie, Beth Dulin, Alfie Edden, Mel Edden, Richard Edden, Rachel Eisler, Meg Elliott, Tara A. Elliott, Michael Fallon, Linda Fiorini, Diana Fusting, William Gant, Eric D. Goodman, Jill Goodman, Meredith Davies Hadaway, Cathy Hailey, James Allen Hall, Matt Hohner, David Hofstetter, John Hutchinson, Bruce Alvin Jacobs, Linda Johnson, Sylvia Karman, Amy Keene, Brendon Keene, Jennifer Keith, Mickie Kennedy, Juliana Keyser, Ruhi Khanna, Hiram Larew, Diane Lawrence, Eleanor Lewis, Alejandro Lucero, Lindsay Lusby, Dora Malech, Markus, Nina Martucci, Lynda McClary, Uni Q. Mical, Erika Miller, Roman J. Misotti, Nancy Mitchell, G. H. Mosson, Nancy Murray, Matthew Milad Nikzad, Rachel Novak, Amuchechukwu Nwafor, Sunayna Pal, Richard Peabody, Charles Rammelkamp, Alan C. Reese, Lee Anne Richardson, Ned "Rock" Rogers, John Russell, Lauren Russell, F. A. Rzomp, Jane Satterfield, Sam Schmidt, Bruce Snider, Stephanie K. Snyder, Kyle Solomon, Otis Sprow, David Stant, Chrissy Stegman, Jennifer A Sutherland, Shahrzad Taavoni, Bonnie Tarantino, Elizabeth Tracey, Nicole Tsygan, Jo Tyler, Bolling Barton Willse Sr., Susanne Wolf, Amy Woodswalker, and Jess Yuan.