About this Event
Sawmill Poetry Series is held at Plenty On Spring (35 West Spring Street, Cookeville, TN), with the poet’s books and select refreshments for sale. Erin Hoover hosts this series. Tickets are not required for this event.
Reading begins at 7:00 p.m. Local writers who wish to share their work in the open mic are invited to arrive by 6:45 p.m. to sign up for a five-minute open mic slot. Written poetry, performance poetry, song lyrics, flash fiction, and micro-essay readings are all welcome.
Two amazing poets are coming our way, via Oxford, Mississippi: Noreen Ocampo, author of Not Flowers, and Maggie Graber, author of Swan Hammer.
Noreen Ocampo is a Filipino American writer and poet from metro Atlanta. Her collection Not Flowers won the 2021 Variant Lit Microchap Contest, and she enjoys writing about topics including, but not limited to, Studio Ghibli films, Animal Crossing, and ube cake. She studies poetry in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi.
Maggie Graber (she/her/hers) is a queer poet born and raised in the Chicago area. She grew up fifteen minutes south of Lake Michigan in Valparaiso, Indiana, where she loved playing basketball, customizing her LiveJournal, and star-gazing at the Indiana Dunes. She is the author of the poetry collection, Swan Hammer: an Instructor’s Guide to Mirrors (Michigan State University Press, 2022), winner of the 2021 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize and a 2023 nominee for a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award. She currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where she’s a PhD candidate in English - Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Plenty on Spring, 35 West Spring Street, Cookeville, United States
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