Press release:
Thomas Rain Crowe, known for his poetry, anthologies, essays and his award-winning memoir on four years of self-sufficient living in the woods of his native Western North Carolina, will read from his works and discuss his life as a writer from 5-6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 20, in UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. This event is free and open to everyone.
Crowe’s 2005 memoir, Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods, which began as a series of columns for the Smoky Mountain News, won awards from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association and the Southern Environmental Law Center. He is the author of more than 30 books of original works, translations, anthologies and recordings.
Early in his career, Crowe lived and wrote in Europe, publishing translations and anthologies of poems. He also was editor of Beatitude magazine in San Francisco, and co-founder and director of the San Francisco International Poetry Foundation. When he returned to North Carolina, he became a founding editor of Katuah Journal: A Bioregional Journal of the Southern Appalachians and was also editor-at-large for the Asheville Poetry Review. He also founded the Cullowhee-based publishing company New Native Press.
Crowe will be interviewed by UNC Asheville senior Renee Ambroso, who has catalogued more than 200 of Crowe’s newspaper writings as part of an internship with the university’s Ramsey Library Special Collections. Gene Hyde, head of special collections and university archivist, will moderate.
The new Thomas Rain Crowe Regional Publications Collection, catalogued by Ambroso and donated by Crowe, will provide access to these hard-to-find articles and reviews and will be available online later this spring. Crowe’s literary archives have been purchased by and are collected at the Duke University Special Collections Library.
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