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NC Poets on 9-11

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 9/11 or reflect associated themes of loss, hope, peace, reconciliation and more. Every day through September 11th we will post selected 9/11 poetry from North Carolina poets on NCArtsEveryday.org. Check back daily for more reflections from NC Poets on 9/11.

NC Poets on 9/11: Susan Lefler’s “September 8, 2011”

Susan Lefler lives and writes in Brevard surrounded by mountains and a garden. Her first collection of poetry, Rendering the Bones, was published by Wind Publications in the spring of 2011. Her photographic history Brevard was published in 2004 by Arcadia Publishing. Then and Now Brevard, also published by...

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NC Poets on 9/11: Mary Kratt’s “The Smoke, The Cough”

Charlotte’s Mary Kratt has published five books of poems including her most recent, Valley (Sow’s Ear Press). Small Potatoes (Briarpatch Press) won the Brockman-Campbell Poetry Book Prize, and Spirit Going Barefoot (Briarpatch Press) won the Oscar Arnold Young Award for the best book of poetry by a...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 19th, 2011 | No Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Two poems by Gilda Morina Syverson

Gilda Morina Syverson wrote these poems and others about the loss of her husband’s nephew in the war in Iraq that came about after 9/11. Syverson’s award-winning poems have been published in various literary journals and magazines in the U.S. and Canada. These poems will appear in her full-length poetry...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 18th, 2011 | 15 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Rebecca Pierre’s “September 16, 2001”

Rebecca Pierre lives, writes and plays in the clay on Oak Island, where the sea is her muse. An accomplished clay artist, she is addicted to pots, poetry and the poetry of pots. She has received numerous awards for her poetry (and pots) as well as a grant for a week-long workshop at Wildacres and for a...

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Original poetry inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, was featured on UNC-TV’s NC Now in the days leading up to the 10th commemoration this year. North Carolina Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers (Tryon), award-winning poet and novelist Joseph Bathanti (Vilas), and poets Sally Buckner (Cary) and...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 16th, 2011 | 1 Comment

NC Poets on 9/11: Elizabeth W. Jackson’s “Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC”

Elizabeth W. Jackson is a clinical psychologist and writer. On 9/11/01 she was working with liver transplant patients at UNC Hospitals (formerly known as Memorial). Haunted by that time, she eventually wrote this poem. Still a practicing psychologist, she also writes prose and poetry. Her poems have...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 16th, 2011 | No Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Two poems from Allison Hedge Coke

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s authored books include American Book Award winner Dog Road Woman and Off-Season City Pipe (poetry); Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer, a memoir; and Blood Run, a verse-play. Hedge Coke has edited eight additional collections, including Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas and...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 15th, 2011 | 1 Comment

NC Poets on 9/11: Nancy Simpson’s “That Day”

Nancy Simpson, a N.C. Arts Council Fellowship recipient, is the author of three poetry collections: Across Water, Night Student and most recently Living Above the Frost Line: New and Selected Poems published in 2010 by Carolina Wren Press. She co-founded N.C. Writers’ Network West, a nonprofit,...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 14th, 2011 | 8 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Rebecca McClanahan’s “There Are Days”

Rebecca McClanahan’s work, whether poetry or prose, usually centers on human relationships and communities, the myriad ways in which lives intersect. She has always written from a deep need to explore the mysteries of ordinary lives. Her works include Deep Light: New and Selected Poems (Iris Press, 2007)...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 13th, 2011 | No Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Debra Kaufman’s “Myopia, Fall, 2001”

Debra Kaufman’s newest collection of poetry is The Next Moment (Jacar Press 2010). She is also the author of Family of Strangers (Nightshade 1990), Still Life Burning (South Carolina Poetry Society 1996) — winner of the Kinloch Rivers Poetry Competition — Moon Mirror Whiskey Wind (Pudding House 2009)...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 12th, 2011 | 1 Comment

NC Poets on 9/11: Joseph Bathanti’s “Katy”

Joseph Bathanti is the author of six books of poetry: Communion Partners, Anson County, The Feast of All Saints, This Metal (nominated for the National Book Award), Land of Amnesia and Restoring Sacred Art (winner of the 2010 Roanoke Chowan Prize). His novel East Liberty won the 2001 Carolina Novel Award....

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 11th, 2011 | 9 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Cathy Smith Bowers’ “For Okra”

Cathy Smith Bowers currently serves as North Carolina’s poet laureate. A resident of Tryon, she teaches in UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program and in the M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte where she received the 2002 J.B. Fuqua Distinguished Educator Award. She also received...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 11th, 2011 | 4 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Richard Allen Taylor’s “September 11”

Charlotte’s Richard Allen Taylor is a former co-editor of Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets. He is the author of Something to Read on the Plane (2004) and Punching Through the Egg of Space (2010), both from Main Street Rag. His poems have appeared in many publications including Rattle, Iodine Poetry...

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NC Poets on 9/11: Barbara Presnell’s “Gull, Fallen”

Barbara Presnell is the author of Piece Work, winner of the Cleveland State First Book Prize, which was staged by the Touring Theatre of North Carolina and toured community colleges in the state. Other books are Snake Dreams, Unravelings and Los Hijos. Lyric collaborations with composer Bonnie Duckworth...

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NC Poets on 9/11: Fred Chappell’s “The Attending”

Born in Canton, Fred Chappell was North Carolina’s poet laureate from 1977 to 2002. He wrote this poem in response to the events of September 11th. Chappell is retired from UNC Greensboro where he taught English, advanced composition, poetry and fiction. Author of a dozen books of verse, two volumes of...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 8th, 2011 | 1 Comment

NC Poets on 9/11: Janice Moore Fuller’s “This Whistling is For You There in the Dark”

Writer-in-residence and professor of English at Catawba College, Janice Moore Fuller has published three poetry books — Archeology Is a Destructive Science (Scots Plaid Press, 1998), Sex Education (Iris Press, 2004) and Séance (Iris Press, 2007), winner of the Poetry Council of North Carolina’s Oscar...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 7th, 2011 | 1 Comment

NC Poets on 9/11: Tom Heffernan’s “Soon It Will Be Ten Years”

Raised in Massachusetts, Tom Heffernan taught at NC State University in the early 1970s and later served in the Poetry in the Schools and the Visiting Artist programs sponsored by the N.C. Arts Council. He has taught writing aboard U.S. Navy ships and literature and writing courses at universities in England...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 6th, 2011 | 2 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Two Poems by Dede Wilson

Dede Wilson has lived in Charlotte since 1967. She has four books of poetry: Glass, finalist for the Persephone Press Award; Sea of Small Fears, winner of the Main Street Rag Chapbook Competition; One Nightstand and Eliza: The New Orleans Years, which will be performed as a one-woman show at Carolina Actors...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 5th, 2011 | 3 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Janice Townley Moore’s “8:46 AM”

Janice Townley Moore lives in Hayesville and is a member of the English faculty at Young Harris College in the North Georgia Mountains. In 2005 she published a chapbook, Teaching the Robins from Finishing Line Press. Her poems have also appeared in The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Southern...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 4th, 2011 | 1 Comment

NC Poets on 9/11: Diana Pinckney’s “Fallen Gardens”

Diana Pinckney has published poetry and prose in RHINO, Atlanta Review, Calyx, Iodine, Cream City Review, Cave Wall and other journals and anthologies. She has four collections of poetry: Fishing with Tall Women, White Linen, Alchemy and Green Daughters, released by Lorimer Press in April 2011. She lives...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 3rd, 2011 | 3 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Two Poems by Julie Suk

Charlotte’s Julie Suk is the author of four volumes of poetry and co-editor of Bear Crossings: An Anthology of North American Poets. Lie Down With Me: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Autumn House Press in fall 2011. THE ARCHITECTURE OF RUIN At a distance: seemingly intact piers, dark recesses,...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 2nd, 2011 | 1 Comment

NC Poets on 9/11: Two Poems by Ione O’Hara

Davidson writer and teacher Ione O’Hara was awarded an Arts and Science Council artist grant as well as a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has taught writing at UNC Charlotte, Central Piedmont Community College, and at Queens University’s Life Long Learning Center. Her...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 1st, 2011 | 3 Comments

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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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....

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 08 27th, 2011 | No Comments

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...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 08 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

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...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 08 21st, 2011 | No Comments

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...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 08 19th, 2011 | No Comments

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

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