Poetry Event Calendar - 2003

2003

Jan. 18     NC Poetry Society 
		Winter Meeting - Southern Pines, NC

March 22    NC Writers' Network 
		Poetry Workshop - Keith Flynn - Wilmington, NC
 
March 29    NC Poetry Society 
		Poetry Workshop - Marie Gilbert - Chapel Hill, NC

March 29    Poetry Society of South Carolina 
		Poetry Workshop - Paul Allen - Georgetown, SC

April 12    Elon University / NCPS 
		Poetry Day - Mark Smith-Soto - Elon, NC

April 12    Barton College / NCPS 
		Poetry Day - Gerald Barrax & Sally Buckner - Wilson, NC

April 26    NC Haiku Society 
		Annual Haiku Holiday - Chapel Hill, NC

April 26    NC Writers' Network 
		Poetry Workshop - Keith Flynn - Hendersonville, NC

May 10      NC Poetry Society 
		Poetry Workshop - Michael White - Pine Knoll Shores

May 17      NC Poetry Society 
		Spring Meeting - Southern Pines, NC

May 24      NC Writers' Network
		Spring Conference - Raleigh, NC

June 28     NC Poetry Society
		Sam Ragan Poetry Festival - Southern Pines, NC

Sept. 20    NC Poetry Society
		Fall Meeting - Southern Pines, NC

Sept. 27    Poetry Council of NC
		Awards Day - Salisbury, NC

Oct. 11     NC Poetry Society
		Poetry Day - Keith Flynn & Kathryn Stripling Byer - Mars Hill, NC

Nov. 14-16  NC Writers' Network
		Fall Conference - Wilmington, NC

Poetry Event Details (when available)

Features of the NCPS Winter Meeting:
-- a presentation by Alan Michael Parker of Davidson College,
-- the dedication of a memorial for Gladys Owens Hughes, and
-- a reading by North Carolina's Poet Laureate Fred Chappell.
 

Featuring:  Mark Smith-Soto.
-- Raised in his mother's country, Costa Rica, and in Washington, 
   D.C., Mark Smith-Soto received his B.A. in English from the 
   University of Maryland and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature 
   (Spanish/English) from the University of California at Berkeley. 
-- A specialist in Spanish-American literature, Mark has published 
   his own poetry and translations in literary journals throughout 
   the country. 
-- His collection Green Mango Collage won the North Carolina  
   Writers’ Network’s 2000 Persephony Prize; and another, Shafts, 
   was the winner of the 2002 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints 
   chapbook competition. 
-- Mark's first full-length book of poetry, Our Lives Are Rivers, 
   will be published in the fall of 2003 by the University Press 
   of Florida. 

Schedule
 9:30 - 10:00  Registration and coffee
               (A table will be available for books that are on sale.)
10:00 - 10:30  Program in the Auditorium:
               -- Welcome from Elon University
               -- Poetry readings by Elon student contest winners
               -- Poetry reading by Mark Smith-Soto
11:00 - 12:30  Workshop by Mark Smith-Soto 
12:00 -  1:30  Luncheon Buffet
 1:30 -  2:00  Open Mike  

Featuring:  Sally Buckner, Gerald Barrax, and musician Mike Hamer.
-- This event is free except for the lunch (see below).
-- Attendees will hear established featured writers read
   and may ask questions about writing strategies.
-- Attending poets may read their work at the open mike.

Sally Buckner has published poetry, plays, nonfiction,
and short fiction. She edited Our Words, Our Ways and 
Word and Witness: 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry.
Honors include the Ragan-Rubin Award.

Gerald Barrax has published five collections of poetry and
has served as poetry editor of Callaloo and Obsidian II.
His awards include the 1993 Raleigh Medal of Arts, a Woodrow 
Wilson Fellowship, and the Edward Stanley Award.

Mike Hamer is a singer, songwriter, and hammered dulcimer 
player. He will entertain during lunch.

Schedule
 9:00 -  9:30  Registration and coffee
 9:30 -  9:45  Welcome 
 9:45 - 10:00  Introduction 
10:00 - 11:00  Method and Madness: 
	          Buckner and Barrax on the Writing Process
11:00 - 12:00  Readings: Buckner and Barrax 
		  share their own work
12:00 -  1:15  Lunch in the Art Gallery, catered by Barton College -
		  lunch music by Mike Hamer
 1:15 -  1:30  Readings: Buckner and Barrax 
		  share their favorite Ragan poems
 1:30 -  3:00  Open Mike
 3:00 	       Closing remarks  

Event Overview
-- This event features readings of poems by winners of the North Carolina Poetry Society's 2003 Poetry Contests in conjunction with the release of the 2003 edition of the NCPS's annual anthology of award-winning poems.
-- Effective this year, the new name of annual poetry anthology is Pinesong. Each dues-paid member in attendance may pick up one free copy. Copies will also be available for purchase.
-- This event is free. Purchase of a box lunch is optional. All lovers of poetry are welcome to attend.

Event Schedule
09:15   Registration, and pay for lunch
10:00   Business meeting, installation of 2003 officers
10:15   Pinesong (2003 Poetry Anthology) dedication
10:30   Poet Laureate, McDill, and student contest winners
12:00   Box lunch, or bring your own
01:15   All adult contest awards (except Poet Laureate and McDill)
03:30   Approximate anticipated ending time

Invitation
This event is free and open to the public. "Come walk the garden of Weymouth and share in the festival of poetry friendships. Join by wearing a free Sam Ragan Bow Tie, sell your books in the book room, join a writers' group, read a poem, find a poet friend or two, come be a part." -- Bill Blackley, NCPS President

Event Schedule
    (Open Mike is woven through the day)
-- Coffee on west patio at 9 AM
-- Register 9:15 to 10 AM (for program and box lunch)
-- Morning Program 10 to 12
-- Lunch 12 to 1
-- Afternoon Program 1 until 3 or until all open mike readers have finished.
    (Each reader is invited to read one poem one page or less in length.)

Program Highlights
-- Keith Flynn, poet/musician/editor of the Asheville Poetry Review, will read. His publications include The Talking Drum, The Book of Monsters, and The Lost Sea.
-- Also featured will be Jaki Shelton Greene, a poet and teacher from Mebane. Her publications include Dead on Arrival and Conjure Blues.
-- Emily Hancock, John Ferree, Stephen Smith, and others will be playing and singing.
-- As requested, there will be more time allotted for the open mike this year. Bring your spoons, harps, banjos, guitars, voices, and whatever else to make a joyful noise for poetry.

Event Overview
-- This year's Brockman-Campbell Poetry Book Award and Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Chapbook Award winners will be recognized.
-- Mary Belle Campbell will be honored for her extensive contributions to poetry in North Carolina.

Event Schedule
09:15   Registration, and pay for lunch
10:00   Business meeting
10:15   Mary Belle Campbell Award - Reading by Kathy C. Ackerman
11:00   Break
11:10   Mary Belle Campbell
12:00   Box lunch (see "Lunch Orders" below), or bring your own
01:15   Brockman-Campbell Book Award - Reading by Dannye Romine Powell
02:00   Break
02:10   Reception and Book Signing followed by Open Mike
03:30   Approximate anticipated ending time

Event Overview
-- A day of poetry and fall color to be held on the campus of Mars Hill College, in the Chapel.
-- Free, but pre-registration is requested.

Featured Speakers
-- Keith Flynn, founder and managing editor of The Asheville Poetry Review.
-- Kathryn Stripling Byer, the recipient of the 2001 North Carolina Award in Literature.

For more information:
-- See the North Carolina Poetry Society's August Newsletter.