May Highlights: 1. Finishing strong in spite of… (whichever way you interpret that). 2. Mating turkeys. The thrill of joy to watch strutting turkeys in my yard, full of pride (shame has no place here). 3. Mildred Barya in Conversation with Michael Hettich. I have the greatest pleasure to share with you this comprehensive interview titled: […]
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Happy National Poetry Month!
Join us for our monthly poetry event featuring three poets. This month, we welcome Petra Kuppers, Rodney Terich Leonard, and Kevin Prufer. Click here to RSVP for this event. On the day of the event, we will send a reminder email with the link required to attend. Like most of our Malaprop’s events, this event is […]
Mildred Barya with Malaprop’s March POETRIO Poets: Jesús Sepúlveda, Gianna Russo, and Aditi Machado
If you missed this wonderful reading, here’s the live recording, March 7, 2021 Click this link Brief Intros via their works Gianna Russo, One House Down. Gianna unsettles the past in One House Down. The poems in this book are packed with stories, filled with voices of people and their ghosts. History comes to life […]
March Poetrio is lined up for you, how exciting!
Join us once more on March 7, 2021 – 3:00pm EST Poetrio: Jesús Sepúlveda, Gianna Russo, and Aditi Machado Join us for our monthly poetry event featuring three poets. This month, we welcomeJesús Sepúlveda, Gianna Russo, Aditi Machado. Click here to RSVP for this event. On the day of the event, we will send a reminder […]
February Poets via Malaprop’s Poetrio Event
Hello World, Welcome to Virtual PoetrioSunday, February 7, 2021 at 3 PM EST We hope you will join me online to welcome Artress Bethany White, author of My Afmerica; Kathleen O’Toole, author of This Far; and Alice Friman, author of Blood Weather. Click here to learn more and RSVP to attend this free live streamed event. Artress Bethany White Kathleen […]
January Poets via Malaprop’s Poetrio Libation
Every first Sunday of the month, I’ll be drinking poetry with amazing poets. I started hosting Poetrio events with Malaprop’s in the Fall of 2019, but halted when COVID-19 prevented us from communing in-person. I am delighted to resume online, and this platform has the benefits of bringing lovers of poetry from across the world […]
Out of the Forge into the Blue Mountain Review
New work is out of the forge– There’s a poem and interview in this Issue 19, and more elsewhere. All in good company.
Introduction to Poetrio–January 2020
Every first Sunday of the month, I host the poetrio events at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, a cool and vibrant independent bookstore founded in Asheville in 1982. How this works is that we invite three poets with new books out to come and read at 3 p.m, then sell the books and have a good time. In […]
Coming Home to Self
Home means different things to people. As a concept and definition, it interests me to no end, and some of my most animated conversations, no doubt, have been about the idea or place of home. I have written extensively about it in both my poetry and creative nonfiction, and I continue to delight in discovering […]
Shuddering Expansion/Where home is
When love ends, It becomes a memory. If it abides, It never ends. My unending/abiding inquiry into the complex understanding of home, interwoven with love, is now housed in Asymptote’s July issue. It includes an audio version of the hybrid essay, Shuddering Expansion/Where home is, read by yours, truly. If you’re curious about […]
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