Busboys & Poets, the Washington, D.C.-based restaurant-and-bookstore chain known for hosting. The Hill has removed its comment section, as there are many other forums for readers to participate in the conversation. Construction on the two-story restaurant broke ground in 2019 and is nearing completion. At first glance, the Shirlington location looked much more like a restaurant. At the suggestion of friend and loyal reader Victoria, we ventured across the river to Shirlington to meet her and visiting buddy Clare at Busboys and Poets - the Virginia edition. “I tried so hard to get them together, but it didn’t work out.”įor more information on Busboys and Poets, visit. Apparently poet Langston Hughes was a busboy at DCs Wardman Park Hotel in the 1930s. “Last Saturday, the Beltway Atheists came in just as the Washington Catholic Archdiocese was hosting an event on atheism in the Langston Room,” he said. “They were all unified.”īusboys also frequently has groups that could be as different as night and day, according to Patrick Law, a manager. Please send an email to if you would like to volunteer at this event. “On Election Day, this place was packed every different type of person you can imagine - homeless people, professionals, college students - all silently watching the TV,” Chase said. Busboy and Poets 6251 Mango Tree Rd Columbia, MD 21044.
“U Street has always been a crossroads where people can share their work,” he said.Įlection Day was a testament to the diversity of Busboys and Poets. The guest was the famous wordsmith Vachel Lindsay, who proclaimed in the papers the next day his discovery of a “Negro busboy poet.”ĭerrick Weston Brown, Busboys’ current “poet-in-residence,” can be found in a corner of the library, scribbling prose in Moleskin notebooks. police said the robbery happened at about 9:30 p.m. The name is a tribute to Langston Hughes, who was working as a busboy at the Wardman Park Hotel in the 1930s when he slipped three of his poems to a patron. Three men armed with rifles and a gun robbed Busboys and Poets in D.C.s Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood Sunday night, police said. There are no titles among the management, and everything is decided by consensus.īusboys is a microcosm of the U Street renaissance, drawing together black, white, gay, straight, young and old alike. “Andy rooted this place in societal justice,” said Maurice Chase, a Busboys manager. After opening the flagship location at 14th and V Streets NW, the neighboring residents and progressive community embraced Busboys, particularly activists opposed to the Iraq War. First established in 2005, Busboys and Poets was founded by owner Andy Shallal, an artist, activist and restaurateur. In 2005, Anas “Andy” Shallal, an Iraqi-American “artist, activist and restaurateur,” opened Busboys and Poets, hoping to establish a meeting place that would conjure the unique legacy of the U Street Corridor once known as “Black Broadway.” Busboys and Poets is a community gathering place.
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