Featured painting: Caterwaul; Oil and Watercolor on Linen; 80" x 64"; 2021 by Hannah Barnes
To be a poet, to my mind, is to be aware, as I once read in a children’s book about the five senses: to ‘see all there is to see, hear all there is to hear, smell all there is to smell, taste all there is to taste, touch all there is to touch.’ To pay attention; to be curious and alert; to be receptive and reflective, reverent and irreverent, romantic and skeptical; to mourn and to praise; to contemplate, celebrate, and salvage what we can of the universe, on behalf of our species. To be a poet, then, is no more or less than to be fully human and to translate and distill that experience into language so meticulously as to evoke and redeem something of life itself.
—from “The Edge: Of Motherhood and Poetics,” Homing In: Attempts on a Life of Poetry and Purpose
Upcoming Events and Readings
Saturday, September 21, 2024, Punch Bucket Lit Festival, Asheville, NC
10:00 AM to 11:15 AM Panel: “Literary Citizenship: Engaging Communities with Luke Hankins, Delicia Daniels, Barbara Roether, and Christian Detisch (Renaissance Hotel - Ballroom C2)
4:00 PM to 5:15 PM Wet Cement Reading with Thoreau Lovell, Chengru He, Barbara Roether, Tony-Wallin Sato, Susan M. Shultz, (Renaissance Hotel -Ballroom C2)
Past Events:
Sunday, September 10 at 5:00 Word Play Radio, Asheville FM, 103.3
Thursday, September 14 at 7:00, Jazz Hybrid Presents an Evening of Poetry & Music. Story Parlor, 227 Haywood Road, West Asheville.
Sunday, September 17 at 7:00, Poetry as Consolation wsg Brit Washburn. An online workshop and discussion. Sliding scale.
Thursday, October 5 at 6:30, Juniper Bends Reading Series, Citizen Vinyl, 14 O'Henry Ave., Asheville
Sunday, October 15 at 5:00, Writers at Home, Malaprop’s Bookstore, Asheville
Friday, November 17, Story Parlor