Join Press 53 and Jacar Press for the Second Annual GATHERING OF POETS
a day-long series of workshops featuring:
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 8 AM - 5:15 PM
WITH A SPECIAL OPEN MIC EVENING, 7-9 PM
Held at The Community Arts Café, Fourth & Spruce, Winston-Salem, NC
Fred Chappell is a widely celebrated international man of letters.He has published 30 books of poetry and prose, and served as Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002. His major literary awards include the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers, the Bollingen Prize, and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His most recent book is Shadow Box: Poems, from LSU Press.
Cathy Smith Bowers was born and reared, one of six children, in the small mill town of Lancaster, South Carolina. She received her BA and MAT in English at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. She went on to do graduate work in Modern British Poetry at Oxford University in England. Her poems have appeared widely in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and The Kenyon Review. She served for many years as poet-in-residence at Queens University of Charlotte where she received the 2002 JB Fuqua Distinguished Educator Award. She now teaches in the Queens low-residency MFA program and at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She is the author of five collections of poetry: The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas (Texas Tech University Press, 1992); Traveling in Time of Danger (Iris Press, 1999); A Book of Minutes (Iris Press, 2004); The Candle I Hold Up To See You (Iris Press, 2009), and Like Shining From Shook Foil, Selected Poems (Press 53, 2010). Ms. Smith Bowers is the current Poet Laureate of North Carolina.
Betty Adcock is the author of six poetry collections,all from LSU Press: Walking Out; Nettles; Beholdings; The Difficult Wheel; Intervale: New & Selected Poems; and Slantwise. Her work has appeared in dozens of anthologies, including the recent Pushcart Book of Poetry: The Best Poems from the Thirty Years of the Pushcart Prize. Ms. Adcock has given readings of her work at more than one hundred colleges and universities and at the Library of Congress. After her first book was published, she held a teaching residency for a semester at Duke University. Other residencies followed, culminating in an ongoing position as Writer in Residence at Meredith College in Raleigh, where she taught until 2006 and twice held the Mary Lynch Johnson Professorship. She has twice been Visiting Distinguished Professor in the North Carolina State University MFA Program. Ms. Adcock teaches now in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, the oldest and most acclaimed low-residency graduate writing program in the country.
Richard Krawiec has published two novels, a collection of stories, four plays, and a chapbook. His debut poetry collection, She Hands Me the Razor (Press 53) was published in September 2011. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and the North Carolina Arts Council (twice). His poems and stories appear in Sou’wester, many mountains moving, Shenandoah, Witness, West Branch, North Carolina Literary Review, Florida Review, Cream City Review, and dozens of other magazines. His feature articles have won national and regional awards. He teaches online at UNC Chapel Hill, where he won the 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award. He is the founder of Jacar Press, a Community Active Literary Publisher.
Joseph Bathanti was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of six books of poetry: Restoring Sacred Art, winner of the 2010 Roanoke Chowan Award; Land of Amnesia; Communion Partners; Anson County; The Feast of All Saints; and This Metal, nominated for The National Book Award after it was first published by St. Andrews College Press in 1996. His books of fiction are East Liberty, Coventry, and The High Heart. He is also the author of They Changed the State: The Legacy of North Carolina’s Visiting Artists, 1971-1995, a volume of nonfiction. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Lavonne J. Adams is the author of Through the Glorieta Pass (Pearl Editions, 2009), and two award-winning chapbooks, In the Shadow of the Mountain and Everyday Still Life. She has published in numerous literary journals, including Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review, Cincinatti Review, and Crab Orchard Review. She has completed residencies at the Vermont Studio Center; the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos; and the Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico-Taos. She teaches at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
