2011 August- NC Arts Everyday

NC Poets on 9/11: Chuck Sullivan’s “A Carol at Ground Zero”

Chuck Sullivan, a Manhattan native, wrote this poem after returning to New York shortly after September 11, 2001, and read it for Christmas at The Selwyn Avenue Pub in Charlotte. Sullivan has published seven books; his second, A Catechism of Hearts (Red Clay Books, Charlotte) won South Carolina’s best...

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The N.C. Arts Council is pleased to share the following opportunities for artists that have recently been submitted to us. Please contact the organization listed if you have any questions. The Arts Council does not endorse or recommend any specific opportunities, but provides this list for...

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NC Poets on 9/11: Sarah Lindsay’s “Nachtmusik”

Sarah Lindsay, recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, is the author of Primate Behavior, Mount Clutter and Twigs and Knucklebones. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Poetry, Parnassus, The Georgia Review, Roger, O. Henry and others. An amateur cellist and professional copy editor, she lives in...

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NC Poets on 9/11: Two Poems by Stephen Knauth

Stephen Knauth lives in Charlotte and is the author of several collections of poetry, including The River I Know You By (Four Way Books). His poems have appeared in North American Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily and Drunken Boat, among others. He has been awarded fellowships from the NEA...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 08 29th, 2011 | 2 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin’s “Tony Writes to Say He’s Alive”

Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin writes and farms at the forks of Blackbird Branch near Tuckasegee. Her chapbook Patriate won the Longleaf Press Open Chapbook award in 2007. TONY WRITES TO SAY HE’S ALIVE September, and the morning rainfreshed. Rises from the goldening birch thicket steam and cricket-shimmer, as...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 08 28th, 2011 | 2 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Shelby Stephenson’s “September Mourning”

Shelby Stephenson was awarded the 2001 North Carolina Award in Literature. He has received the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Memorial Award and the Playwright’s Fund of North Carolina Chapbook Prize. Family Matters: Homage to July, the Slave Girl won the 2008 Bellday Poetry Prize, Allen Grossman, judge....

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NC Poets on 9/11: Kathryn Kirkpatrick’s “After Zazen”

Kathryn Kirkpatrick lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains and teaches at Appalachian State University. She is the author of five collections of poetry, The Body’s Horizon (1996), Beyond Reason (2004), Out of the Garden (2007), Unaccountable Weather (2011) and Our Held Animal Breath (forthcoming, 2012). Her...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 08 26th, 2011 | 1 Comment

NC Poets on 9/11: Lenard D. Moore’s “In Retrospect: 9/11”

Lenard D. Moore is assistant professor of English at Mount Olive College, where he directs the literary festival and advises The Trojan Voices. He is the author of A Temple Looming, Forever Home, The Open Eye and other books. A Raleigh resident, he is the guest editor of the special “Aforebo: A Harvest...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 08 25th, 2011 | 12 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Sally Buckner’s “Cataclysm”

Sally Buckner edited two anthologies of North Carolina literature, including Word and Witness: 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry. She has published poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent publication is Collateral Damage (Main St. Rag, 2008), poems about war and its far-reaching effects. She...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 08 24th, 2011 | 2 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Jeffery Beam’s “A Stone Falling, A Falling Stone”

Hillsborough’s Jeffery Beam is the author of numerous award-winning works including Gospel Earth (Skysill Press, England), Visions of Dame Kind (The Jargon Society), The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems 1969 – 2007 (White Crane), the song cycle Life of the Bee with composer Lee Hoiby, The...

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17 Days Festival Highlights Greensboro’s Creative Community

Members of Greensboro’s music, visual art, theater and dance communities will be highlighted in 17 Days, a festival premiering Thursday, Sept. 22, and continuing through Saturday, Oct. 8. Organized by the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro, the festival will include 85 events, performances,...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Traveler, Arts News on 08 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

“Smartest Card” Gets Boost from Singer Beaux Foy

North Carolina’s “Smartest Card” campaign, encouraging all North Carolinians to visit their libraries and sign up for a library card, gets a boost from Beaux Foy, lead singer for the indie rock band Airiel Down, in a new YouTube video. The library card sign-up campaign was launched today at the...

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NC Poets on 9/11: Two Poems from Heather Ross Miller

Part of a Southern literary family known as the “writing Rosses,” Heather Ross Miller’s most recent book is a collection of linked narrative poems titled Lumina: A Town of Voices and features the old aluminum-smelting town of Badin where she grew up. Retired from Washington and Lee University, the...

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Anthony S. Abbott is the author of two novels and six books of poetry, including the Pulitzer-nominated The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat. A native of San Francisco, Abbott received his A.B. from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus...

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NC Poets on 9/11: Gail Peck’s “Transport”

Charlotte resident Gail Peck is an award-winning author who’s published five poetry books. Her poems and essays have been published in numerous journals throughout the county, and her work has been widely anthologized. Her collection, Counting the Lost, is forthcoming in late September. “Transport”...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News, NC Poets on 9-11 on 08 20th, 2011 | 2 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Peter Makuck’s “Letter to Bill Heyen: The 9/11 Anthology”

Peter Makuck’s Long Lens: New & Selected Poems was published by BOA Editions, Ltd. and recently won the Brockman-Campbell Award for the best volume of poetry published by a North Carolinian in 2010. The Bogue Banks resident’s third collection of short stories, Family Matters, is forthcoming from...

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NC Poets on 9/11: Two Poems by Kathryn Stripling Byer

Kathryn Stripling Byer served as North Carolina’s first female poet laureate from 2005 until Cathy Smith Bowers’ appointment in 2010. The Cullowhee resident’s poetry, essays and fiction have appeared in publications ranging from The Atlantic to Appalachian Heritage. Her chapbook...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 08 18th, 2011 | 3 Comments

Joseph Bathanti Cathy Smith Bowers To acknowledge and commemorate the upcoming 10th anniversary of September 11th with poetry, North Carolina Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers and award-winning poet and novelist Joseph Bathanti are gathering works from notable poets across the state that touch directly on...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News, Poet Laureate on 08 18th, 2011 | 2 Comments

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Elkins Named One of 2011’s “Best New Poets”

Greensboro poet Ansel Elkins, a North Carolina Arts Council 2011–2012 Fellowship recipient, has been included in Best New Poets, an annual anthology of 50 poems from emerging writers. Each year, a guest editor selects 50 poems from nominations made by literary magazines and writing programs, as well as an...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 08 16th, 2011 | No Comments

North Carolina Arts Council 2011-2012 Fellowship recipient Marjorie Hudson will conduct a free fiction craft workshop Wednesday, Aug. 17, from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Dare County Arts Council Gallery in Manteo. Hudson is a Pittsboro writer whose stories, essays and poems explore themes of loss, conflict...

Posted by ncarts in Happening Now, Miscellaneous on 08 15th, 2011 | No Comments

Arts & Science Council Appoints New Vice President for Education

Barbara Ann Temple has been named vice president for education for the Arts & Science Council of Charlotte. She assumes her duties for this newly created position on Monday, Sept. 12. In making the announcement on Aug. 11, ASC president Scott Provancher said the position is instrumental in...