Poetry Readings

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

2012-2013 Readings

Spring Semester: "Poetry and Conversation"

Tuesday, February 5
Edrik Lopez and Adrian Matejka
7:00 pm
WCU Poetry House, 823 S. High Street

Wednesday, March 13
Kristine Ervin and Spring Ulmer
7:00 pm Reading
WCU Poetry House, 823 S. High St.

Wednesday, April 3
Kwame Dawes and Russell Goings
4:30 pm Craft Talk with Kwame Dawes
7:00 pm Reading
WCU Poetry House, 823 S. High St.

Fall Semester

Tuesday, September 25
Novelist Mark Powell
7:00 pm
WCU Poetry House, 823 S. High Street

Wednesday, October 10
Poet-in-Residence Fred Chappell
4:30 pm Craft Talk
7:00 pm Reading
WCU Poetry House, 823 S. High St.

Rescheduled for Tuesday, November 27
Creative Nonfiction Writer Roya Hakakian
4:30 pm Discussion
7:00 pm Reading
WCU Poetry House, 823 S. High St.

2011-2012 Readings

Spring Semester

Thursday, February 9
Craft Talk 4:30 pm
WCU Poetry House, 823 S. High St.
Reading 7:00 pm
Philips Autograph Library
Cornelius Eady

Tuesday, February 21
7:00 p.m.
WCU Poetry House, 823 S. High Street
WCU Students (Past and Present): Deborah Arnold, Erin Jones, Kip Migdalias, Luke Stromberg, and 2011 Poetry Out Loud Third Place winner, DeVonna Smith

Monday, April 9
7:00 p.m.
WCU Poetry House, 823 S. High Street
Poetry and Place, Dolores Hayden and Jane Satterfield

Fall Semester

Sunday, September 11
2:00 p.m.
WCU Poetry House, 823 S. High Street
Tenth-Anniversary Memorial Reading: Nine Poets Read on 9/11
Michael Bagwell, Ned Balbo, Lorna Knowles Blake, Barbara Crooker, J. Daly, Anna Evans, Joshua Mehigan, Maria Terrone, David Yezzi with violinist Natalie Dietterich

Tuesday, September 27
7:00 p.m
WCU Poetry House, 823 S. High Street
Kim Bridgford
Launch of Hitchcock's Coffin: Sonnets about Classic Films

Wednesday, October 12
4:30 p.m. Craft Lecture
Philips Autograph Library
7:00 p.m. Poetry Reading
WCU Poetry House, 823 S. High Street
Anne Stevenson, Poet-in-Residence

Wednesday, November 9
7:00 p.m.
WCU Poetry House, 823 S. High Street
Rhina Espaillat and “Melopoeia”
John Tavano, guitarist & composer
Ann Tucker, singer & vocalist
Alfred Nicol, poet
Rhina P. Espaillat, poet