About Gregg

Baltimore County

Gregg Wilhelm is a literary artist, educator, community builder, and arts advocate.

His fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in Baltimore Magazine, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Gargoyle, Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore, Broadkill Review, Tampa Review Online, Baltimore City Paper, Johns Hopkins Magazine, and elsewhere. He is co-editor of Clash by Night, a poetry… more

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Caricature of Gregg Wilhelm by Frederick-based artist Goodloe Byron.
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    Caricature of Gregg Wilhelm by Frederick-based artist Goodloe Byron.

Baltimore Ekphrasis Project

A collaboration between The Light Ekphrastic journal (edited by Jenny O'Grady) and the Baltimore LED Project, visual artists paired with literary artists to create an original artwork based on a orginal poem, and in turn a new poem was written based on a new piece by the visual artist. Poet Gregg Wilhelm partnered with painter Dayna Carpenter.
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    Poem excerpt from Baltimore Ekphrasis Project on LED Billboard by Penn Station
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    The complete Baltimore Ekphrasis Project with Wilhelm's poems and Carpenter's artwork.

Wilhelm at Writers Reading @ AACC

Gregg Wilhelm was a featured author at Anne Arundel Community College's Writers Reading @ AACC series.
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    Writers Reading @ AACC series (Anne Arundel Community College)

WBAL-TV Compilation

Compilation of Gregg Wilhelm's appearances on WBAL-TV promoting books and literary events.
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    Gregg Wilhelm's appearances on WBAL-TV promoting books and literary events.

CityLit Festival Highlights

Gregg Wilhelm's work as a literary arts administrator includes developing the popular annual CityLit Festival. This video represents some of the free events highlights over the years.
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    Highlights from the free literary program CityLit Festival.

CityLit Project Youth Programs

Highlights of CityLit's outreach to youth through creative writing and project management strategies.
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    Highlights from various CityLit Project programs that serve youth

Geo-Poe: A Literary Geo-Caching Adventure

“Geo-Poe” was a city-wide literary geo-caching adventure dreamed up and coordinated by Gregg Wilhelm in the Fall 2014.  Fifteen writers (from established authors to emerging voices) penned short short stories surrounding the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe or stories written in a Poe-esque style.  These stories were hidden around Baltimore in spots relevant to the narrative, and readers-seekers used mobile devices to find-and-read the story caches. Clues to each stashed cache were posted via social media.  The project took on extra life as a reading was staged at Westminster Hall, Eight Stone Press published a chapbook, and a culminating event celebrating the publication of the chapbook took place at Atomic Books.  Participants stated that the experience was a highlight of their year, and stories produced by the writers were uniformly excellent.

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  • Geo-Poe Description/Intro
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Book Covers

This image depicts a selection of titles that Gregg Wilhelm has shepherded to publication as an editor, designer, production manager, marketer, and/or publisher; these are some of more than 300 book projects he has been honored to be involved with during his career in independent publishing. 
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    WILHELM Select Covers BOOKS PUBLISHED
    This image depicts a selection of titles that Gregg Wilhelm has shepherded to publication as an editor, designer, production manager, marketer, and/or publisher; these are some of more than 175 book projects he has been honored to be involved with during his career in independent publishing.