About this Event
A Collaboration with the Black Mountain Center for the Arts, Black Mountain Library, Friends of the Library, and Dark City Poets Society.
This big night of poetry features three published poets, Glenis Redmond, Lee Stockdale and Ugandan poet Mildred Barya. The evening of poetry begins with student poets from the region, followed by poets from the Dark City Poets Society. The evening culminates with readings from our three featured poets.
Tickets are $10. Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime, and seating is general admission (first-come, first-served). Online ticket sales end 1 hour prior to showtime. There may still be tickets available for sale in the office after online sales end. Call 828-669-0930 for more information.
Glenis Redmond:
Glenis Redmond is grounded in many worlds as a Poet, Teaching Artist, and Imagination Activist. As a Poet, her feet are firmly planted on both the page and the stage. As a Teaching Artist, her educational reach extends into the classroom, where she teaches both students and teachers to open to their own poetry within. As an Imagination Activist she uses the bright bloom of her heart and soul to unlock the doors of creativity in others in the community-at-large. She is a gentle pen pusher.
Glenis Redmond is the First Poet Laureate of Greenville, South Carolina. She is a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, and a Cave Canem alumni. She has authored six books of poetry: Backbone (Underground Epics, 2000), Under the Sun (Main Street Rag, 2002), and What My Hand Say (Press 53, 2016), Listening Skin (Four Way Books), Three Harriets & Others (Finishing Line Press), and Praise Songs for Dave the Potter, Art by Jonathan Green, and Poetry by Glenis Redmond (University of Georgia Press). The Listening Skin was longlisted for the Pen America Open Book Award and the Julie Suk Award.
Glenis received the highest arts award in South Carolina, the Governor’s Award and was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors.
Lee Stockdale:
Lee is a resident of Asheville. He has won the United Kingdom National Poetry Prize, the Sidney Lanier Poetry Prize, and other prizes. His work has appeared in The Poetry Review, The Guardian, anthologies, and elsewhere. His debut collection, Gorilla, was published in 2022 by Main Street Rag.
Mildred Barya:
Mildred Barya is a Ugandan poet and fiction writer who has authored three poetry books: Give Me Room to Move My Feet (Amalion Publishing, 2009), The Price of Memory After the Tsunami (Mallory International, 2006), and Men Love Chocolates But They Don’t Say (Femrite Publications, 2002). She teaches creative writing at University of North Carolina Asheville and is a board member of African Writers Trust.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Black Mountain Center for the Arts, 225 West State Street, Black Mountain, United States
USD 12.40
