BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Greensboro Bound - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Greensboro Bound X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://greensborobound.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Greensboro Bound REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T150000 DTSTAMP:20260523T060835 CREATED:20220325T201131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T155404Z UID:8494-1653141600-1653145200@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:The Truth about Disability: What We Don't Talk About DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nAround 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 disabled authors of poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction discuss their work and what we don’t talk about when we talk about disability. With EMILY MALONEY\, KAY ULANDAY BARRETT\, and JT HILL. Hosted by JT HILL. \nYou may also be interested in:\n•  Sounding Bodies: Identity\, Injustice\, and the Voice\n• Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life\n•  Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation \nEMILY MALONEY is the author of COST OF LIVING (Henry Holt\, 2022). Her work has appeared in Glamour\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Best American Essays\, and the American Journal of Nursing\, among others. In addition to her work as an ER tech\, she has worked as a dog groomer\, horse trainer\, pastry chef\, general contractor\, tile setter\, and catalog model and sold her ceramics at art fairs. She has twice been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship and lives in Evanston\, Illinois. \nKAY ULANDAY BARRETT is a poet\, essayist\, cultural strategist\, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry and a recipient of a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell. Their second book\, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have received fellowships from VONA Voices\, Monson Arts\, Macondo\, and The Lambda Literary Review. They have featured at The United Nations\, The Lincoln Center\, The Hemispheric Institute\, Symphony Space\, Brooklyn Museum\, Dodge Poetry\, The Poetry Foundation\, The School of the Arts Institute\, Manchester PRIDE\, Sesame Street\, & more. Their contributions are found in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, Academy of American Poets\, Colorlines\, Asian American Literary Review\, The Advocate\, Al Jazeera\, NYLON\, Vogue\, The Rumpus\, The Lily\, VIDA Review\, and elsewhere. Currently\, they serve as a curator at The Asian American Writer’s Workshop. \nJT HILL Hill is the author of a memoir\, Blind Man’s Bluff\, coming July 2021 from W. W. Norton. His fiction debut\, Academy Gothic\, won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. His essays have been listed as Notable in the 2019 and 2020 editions of Best American Essays\, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Writer’s Digest\, Story Quarterly\, and Hobart\, among others. He serves as fiction editor for the literary journal Monkeybicycle and contributing editor for Literary Hub\, where he writes a monthly audiobooks column. He lives in Greensboro\, North Carolina with his wife. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/the-truth-about-disability/ LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,LGBTQIA,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Poetry END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T120000 DTSTAMP:20260523T060835 CREATED:20220325T155349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220520T154109Z UID:8396-1653130800-1653134400@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation DESCRIPTION:This event is SOLD OUT.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n**THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT**\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nFrom 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 GASPENY. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• A Conversation on Publishing for People of Color\n• Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life\n• Authors with Disabilities panel \n  \nCRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH is the author of two poetry chapbooks\, Routes Home\, Finishing Line Press (2013) and Running Music\, Longleaf Press (2014). She is also the author of Wildflowers: Haiku\, Senryu\, and Haibun (2016). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including: Callaloo\, Nimrod\, Barrow Street\, Obsidian II: Literature in the African Diaspora\, African American Review\, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. She is an alumna of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and the Yale Summer Writers Conference. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and lives in Durham\, NC with her husband and two sons where she teaches English Composition and Creative Writing. She is the Managing Editor of Backbone Press. \n KAY ULANDAY BARRETT is a poet\, essayist\, cultural strategist\, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry and a recipient of a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell. Their second book\, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have received fellowships from VONA Voices\, Monson Arts\, Macondo\, and The Lambda Literary Review. They have featured at The United Nations\, The Lincoln Center\, The Hemispheric Institute\, Symphony Space\, Brooklyn Museum\, Dodge Poetry\, The Poetry Foundation\, The School of the Arts Institute\, Manchester PRIDE\, Sesame Street\, & more. Their contributions are found in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, Academy of American Poets\, Colorlines\, Asian American Literary Review\, The Advocate\, Al Jazeera\, NYLON\, Vogue\, The Rumpus\, The Lily\, VIDA Review\, and elsewhere. Currently\, they serve as a curator at The Asian American Writer’s Workshop. \nSTUART DISCHELL is the author of Good Hope Road (Viking)\, a National Poetry Series Selection\, Evenings & Avenues (Penguin)\, Dig Safe (Penguin)\, Backwards Days (Penguin)\, Standing on Z (Unicorn)\, Children with Enemies (Chicago)\, and the forthcoming The Lookout Man (Chicago). A recipient of awards from the NEA\, the North Carolina Arts Council\, the Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation. and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, he is the Class of 1952 Excellence Professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. \nMICHAEL GASPENY is the author of the novella in verse\, The Tyranny of Questions (Unicorn Press) and the chapbooks Re-Write Men and Vocation. He has won the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition and the O. Henry Festival Short Fiction Contest. His novel\, Postcard from the Delta\, is forthcoming from Livingston Press. For hospice service\, he has received The (North Carolina) Governor’s Award for Volunteer Excellence. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/whatever-wholeness-means/ LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 S Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,Poetry END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210519T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210519T210000 DTSTAMP:20260523T060835 CREATED:20210401T224727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210401T224955Z UID:5832-1621447200-1621458000@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Guilford County Schools High School Poet Laureate Year-end Reading DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Worrells\, HS Poet Laureate coordinator and Library Media Specialist at Grimsley High School. \n2021 Poetry Judge\nJ. 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 have appeared in Town Creek Poetry\, Big River Poetry\, Cold Mountain Review\, and Cirque. The emphasis on place in his work is the natural product of having lived in ten US states including both Carolinas\, Pennsylvania\, Nevada\, and Alaska.  He has also traveled extensively outside of the US both in a physical sense and also in his imagination. His collection A Concept of Right Now was published in 2019. \nREGISTRATION REQUIRED \n[“view event page” link below] URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/2021-poet-laureate-reading/ LOCATION:LIVE ZOOM CATEGORIES:Adult,Poetry,Young Adult END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T200000 DTSTAMP:20260523T060835 CREATED:20210401T070553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T123135Z UID:5042-1621105200-1621108800@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:LIVE A Conversation with Billy Collins & Ron Rash DESCRIPTION: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 promises to ripple with wit and soar with elegiac power. [event is free\, but registration is required]\n\n \n  \n  \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book images above. \nBILLY COLLINS is the author of twelve collections of poetry including The Rain in Portugal\, Aimless Love\, Horoscopes for the Dead\, Ballistics\, The Trouble with Poetry\, Nine Horses\, Sailing Alone Around the Room\, Questions About Angels\, The Art of Drowning\, and Picnic\, Lightning. He is also the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry\, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day\, and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York\, Collins served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife Suzannah.\nAuthor Website \nRON RASH is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestseller Serena and Above the Waterfall\, in addition to four prizewinning novels\, including The Cove\, One Foot in Eden\, Saints at the River\, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories\, among them Burning Bright\, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award\, and Chemistry and Other Stories\, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize\, he teaches at Western Carolina University.\nAuthor Website \nMichael Gaspeny is the author of the novella in verse\, The Tyranny of Questions (Unicorn Press) and the chapbooks Re-Write Men and Vocation. He has won the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition and the O. Henry Festival Short Story Contest. He has served as moderator for several Scuppernong and Greensboro Bound events\, including forums on Flannery O’Connor and James Baldwin. A former reporter and sportswriter\, he taught journalism and English for almost forty years\, mainly at Bennett College and High Point University\, where he won the distinguished teaching award. For hospice service in Greensboro\, North Carolina\, he has received The Governor’s Award for Volunteer Excellence. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by: URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/collins-rash/ LOCATION:LIVE ZOOM CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction,Poetry END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T170000 DTSTAMP:20260523T060835 CREATED:20210401T070914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210401T192848Z UID:5627-1621094400-1621098000@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Poems in a Crisis with Traci Brimhall\, Nickole Brown\, and Alice Quinn DESCRIPTION:Poems in a Crisis: Navigating Family\, the Pandemic\, and Remaking the World.\nJoin 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 after the death of one’s mother\, the murder of a friend\, and the end of a marriage? What is it to bear witness to a pandemic that killed more than half a million people in the United States and millions around the world? Host KATIE KEHOE delves into these questions and more. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nTRACI BRIMHALL is the author of Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon\, 2020); Saudade (Copper Canyon\, 2017)\, Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton\, 2012)\, and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press\, 2010). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, Slate\, Poetry\, The Believer\, The New Republic\, and Best American Poetry. A 2013 NEA Fellow\, she’s currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Kansas State University.\nAuthors Website \nNICKOLE BROWN received her MFA from the Vermont College\, studied literature at Oxford University\, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She worked at Sarabande Books for ten years. She’s the author of Sister\, first published in 2007 with a new edition reissued in 2018. Her second book\, Fanny Says (BOA Editions)\, won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry in 2015. The audiobook of that collection became available in 2017. Currently\, she teaches at the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program and the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNCA. She lives with her wife\, poet Jessica Jacobs\, in Asheville\, NC\, where she periodically volunteers at several different animal sanctuaries. A chapbook called To Those Who Were Our First Gods won the 2018 Rattle Chapbook Prize\, and a long sequence called The Donkey Elegies was published as a chapbook by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2020.\nAuthor Website \nALICE QUINN was the executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years\,  the poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007\, and an editor at Knopf for more than ten years prior to that. She teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and is the editor of a book of Elizabeth Bishop’s writings\, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems\, Drafts\, and Fragments\, as well as a forthcoming book of Bishop’s journals. She lives in New York City and Millerton\, New York. \nKATIE KEHOE’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Salt Hill\, Boudin–the online home of the McNeese Review\, The Indianapolis Review\, Bayou Magazine\, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the NC State poetry contest (2019)\, and nominated for a Pushcart (2020). She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, and currently she works as a librarian. \n  URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/brimhall-brown-quinn/ LOCATION:VIRTUAL CATEGORIES:Adult,Poetry END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T153000 DTSTAMP:20260523T060835 CREATED:20210401T071304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T143911Z UID:5384-1621087200-1621092600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:LIVE All Up In Your Feels\, a poetry workshop DESCRIPTION:  \n\nJoin poets and partners JESSICA JACOBS and NICKOLE BROWN in a poetry workshop to get “All Up In Your Feels.” \nFor 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 before turning your own hand to the page to write of eros but free from its sappy\, chocolate-dipped clichés—or conversely\, to write about heartbreak or downright lack of love with nuance and grace. Open to writers of all levels\, this session is a solid choice for anyone wanting to write about love in any genre\, and we hope that you’ll leave with some strategies that will help you address one of the heart’s most pervasive conundrums. There will be opportunities to write (and possibly share your newfound lines) during our time together\, so come ready and willing to play.  Authors’ Website \n \n\n \n  \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nJESSICA JACOBS is the author of Take Me with You\, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books)\, one of Library Journal’s Best Poetry Books of the Year and winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award and Goldie Award. Her debut collection\, Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press)\, a biography-in-poems of Georgia O’Keeffe\, won the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Chapbook Editor for Beloit Poetry Journal\, Jessica lives in Asheville\, NC\, with her wife\, the poet Nickole Brown\, with whom she co-authored Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire (Spruce Books/PenguinRandomHouse)\, and is at work on a collection of poems exploring spirituality\, Torah\, and Midrash.\nAuthor Website \nNICKOLE BROWN received her MFA from the Vermont College\, studied literature at Oxford University\, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She worked at Sarabande Books for ten years. She’s the author of Sister\, first published in 2007 with a new edition reissued in 2018. Her second book\, Fanny Says (BOA Editions)\, won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry in 2015. The audiobook of that collection became available in 2017. Currently\, she teaches at the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program and the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNCA. She lives with her wife\, poet Jessica Jacobs\, in Asheville\, NC\, where she periodically volunteers at several different animal sanctuaries. A chapbook called To Those Who Were Our First Gods won the 2018 Rattle Chapbook Prize\, and a long sequence called The Donkey Elegies was published as a chapbook by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2020.\nAuthor Website \n  \nPoems In Crisis\, poetry panel with  Tracy Brimhall\, Nickole Brown\, and Alice Quinn URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/poetry-workshop/ LOCATION:LIVE ZOOM CATEGORIES:Adult,Poetry,Workshop END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR