LIVE All Up In Your Feels, a poetry workshop

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  Join poets and partners JESSICA JACOBS and NICKOLE BROWN in a poetry workshop to get "All Up In Your Feels." For all you lonely hearts, flaming hearts, celebrators (or detesters) of Valentine's Day, this generative workshop focuses on the difficult art of writing about love. We'll draw inspiration from poems by Traci Brimhall and Dorianne Laux […]

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Poems in a Crisis with Traci Brimhall, Nickole Brown, and Alice Quinn

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Poems in a Crisis: Navigating Family, the Pandemic, and Remaking the World. Join poets TRACI BRIMHALL and NICKOLE BROWN and editor ALICE QUINN in a soulful discussion of navigating family, the pandemic and remaking the world through poetry. What does it mean to reckon with our ill treatment of animals? What does it mean to write lullabies […]

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LIVE A Conversation with Billy Collins & Ron Rash

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Former US Poet Laureate BILLY COLLINS has been hailed as "the most popular poet in America." RON RASH has been celebrated as the “Appalachian Shakespeare."  Host Michael Gaspeny will investigate the mysteries of art and the heart in a discussion of their latest works (Whale Day: And Other Poems and In the Valley: Stories) that […]

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Guilford County Schools High School Poet Laureate Year-end Reading

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Hosted by Jennifer Worrells, HS Poet Laureate coordinator and Library Media Specialist at Grimsley High School. 2021 Poetry Judge J. SCOTT WALKER is an English and creative writing teacher based in Greensboro.  When he's not teaching he writes songs, plays, and poetry.  A graduate of Appalachian State University and the University of Alaska, his poems […]

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Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation

Scuppernong Books 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC

**THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT** *All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* From three unique perspectives, these poets offer witness, vulnerability, and fierce attention to the troubled and yet still exquisite times. With CRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH, KAY ULANDAY BARRETT, and STUART DISCHELL. Hosted by MICHAEL […]

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The Truth about Disability: What We Don’t Talk About

Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Around 20% of Americans live with a disability, but for many disability remains a taboo subject. Too often, the complex experiences of the disabled are reduced to pity or inspiration. On this panel, three […]

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