NC Poetry Society Fall Meeting

The new issue of the e-Muse arrived today with news about readings, contests, and publication opportunities around the state. The highlight, though, is this announcement of the NC Poetry Society’s Fall Meeting. Annual Fall Meeting Saturday, September 21, 2013 Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, NC Please mark your calendars! An exciting … Read more

Get Your Manuscript Ready

(This article appeared in the Outlook newspaper and my online blog “Musings” a few weeks ago. I’m running it again here for anyone who didn’t see it before because the entry period for the inaugural Lena Shull Poetry Manuscript Award is barely more than a month away and because the next NCPS meeting comes up … Read more

4 Poems & A Party

My poem “Used” has been chosen for the August Poetry in Plain Sight program in Winston-Salem along with poems by Ross White, Joe Morris, and LeeAnn Patrick. The poems will be printed on posters and placed around Winston-Salem. Their website says they will be in sixteen shop windows throughout Winston-Salem’s Arts and Entertainment District, but … Read more

NC Poetry Society Fall Meeting

Saturday, September 21, 2013 Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, NC Readings by Joseph Bathanti, current Poet Laureate of North Carolina, and 2013 Brockman-Campbell Book Award winners Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Katherine Sonial. Recognition of the winners of the NCWN Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, Joseph Mills, Ross White, and Katherine Soniat; and the … Read more