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Local authors get a chance to speak about peace from their writings on Sunday, September 18th at 2 PM at The Block Off Biltmore, 39 South Market St. in Asheville. Brunch will be available at 1 PM.
Authors who will be featured at the event will be:
Poet DeWayne Barton, author of Hood Huggers International: Return to Burton Street. Glenis Redmond describes Barton’s collection of poems as “ringing out like street corner anthems, sung to a drum call with both love and rage. Each poem burns with questions. Each poem is lit with compassion declaring us to rise. B-Love’s call is for all, but especially black people battered by a historical legacy that plays out personally and collectively today.”
City Council Person Cecil Bothwell, who will be reading from his book, She Walks on Water, a novel that that claims that religion is the principle problem facing humanity, and If we were as rational as the dolphins and whales we would never engage in war.
Popular radio host of 880 The Revolution Jeff Messer, author of Red-state, White-guy Blues, a book published by local Pisgah Press that focuses on the first two years of red state rule in Raleigh, beginning with Governor Pat McCrory in 2013.
Activist Kyle Ross, author of Taserized: Neighborhood Walk Ends in Police Brutality, her true story of what it’s like to be tazered by police and becoming caught up in the maze of the criminal justice system through no fault of her own.
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Questions and Answers will follow. Books will be on sale at the conclusion of the reading.
This is one of the main events this year as WNC 4 Peace observes International Day of Peace, officially on September 21.The group recently co-sponsored a sold-out movie Inside Peace, and an art contest for school children, winners of which will be announced Saturday, September 24, along with annual Peace Makers of the Year awards for local activists, at 2 PM at the Center for Art and Spirit, 1 School Rd., Asheville.
WNC 4 Peace is a partnership of Peace Makers infiltrating messages and actions for peace throughout Western North Carolina.
* Author Clare Hanrahan, who has recently released her book “The Half Life of a Free Radical,” may also read from her book at the September 18 event.
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