See through Poems: Ellicott City at 250, A Reading

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Ellicott City's founding, HoCoPoLitSo collected 25 poems that speak to the town’s history, commerce, and people. This project is a partnership between HoCoPoLitSo and EC250, the group founded to organize activities around the sesquicentennial . Former Baltimore Sun reporter and longtime publisher of the Little Patuxent Review, Mike Clark, wrote the foreword to the collection of poems. "Celebrating 250 years of Ellicott City history in poetry is a gift HoCoPoLitSo has bequeathed us," Clark wrote. "Two dozen poets give voice to the history of Ellicott City in this unique literary venture by the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society." The collection includes poems by or about Ellicott City residents, poems about trains and wheat, lines about history and ghosts. On June 12, at the Museum of Howard County in Ellicott City, poets and community leaders gathered for a reading of the poems. For more information about the live or recorded programs of HoCoPoLitSo, visit www.hocopolitso.org. For more information about the Ellicott City poetry project, visit hocopolitso.org/ec250/. For more information about the upcoming Ellicott City celebrations, visit www.ec250.com.