Asheville-based poet Brian Sneeden reads “Charioteer” from the roof of the Battery Park Apartments.
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Conscious Party Web Extra: Could WNC become the location for a nuclear-waste dump?
Local entertainers are creating a space where community dialogue meets music, poetry and performance art. The objective? To raise awareness of the potential impact of nuclear waste on our area.
Poetry Xpress: Daniel Elliot Ness
Asheville-based poet and performance artist Daniel Elliot Ness performs his work “Polemic Poetics Poverty Verses À La Carte Ice Famine” at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville.
Mountain Xpress Poetry Prize finalists announced
The top 10 poets have been named. The overall winner will be announced at the Mountain Xpress Poetry Show, at the Masonic Temple on Friday, April 8.
Video from the Christine Lassiter Tribute
In 2001, local poet, playwright, teacher and activist Christine Lassiter died from cancer. Ten years after her death, the community she helped to form held a memorial reading of her poetry at Malaprop’s, featuring a who’s who of Asheville poets and performers. Xpress presents a few videos from that event.
Of ample hills: The 2011 Mountain Xpress Poetry Prize
Western North Carolina has long history as a mecca for the written word. From Thomas Wolfe to Wilma Dykeman, O. Henry to Charles Frazier, our mountains have been home to a diverse group of esteemed authors, many of them poets. Is it coincidence that the last three poets laureate of North Carolina — Fred Chappell, Katherine Stripling Byer and Cathy Smith Bowers — are from the mountains? And we know there are more poets in these hills.
Pulitzer winner Natasha Trethewey to read in Asheville
The poet, awarded for her 2006 book Native Guard, will read at Posana Café at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29
Book Report: Under the Sun
Award-winning poet Glenis Redmond returns with her third full-length collection of poetry.