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Hello, Poets & Friends!Happy 10th Anniversary to us! Waterbean Poetry Night invites you to help us celebrate this milestone date, as well as National Poetry Month (NaPoMo) with readings by two spectacular FEATURED POETS: IRENE BLAIR HONEYCUTT + JOSEPH MILLS! Irene will make her 2nd, and Joe his 3rd, featured appearance on our Waterbean stage. I can’t wait to welcome them back!
Following the featured program and a short break for book sales/signing, stick around to enjoy a lively OPEN MIC!
7:00–8:50 PM (venue closes at 9)
WEDNESDAY• 23 APRIL 2025
Waterbean Coffee - Huntersville
9705 Sam Furr Rd., Ste. A
Huntersville, NC 28078
in NorthCross Shopping Center
(corner of NC-73 & US-21)
We’ll begin at 7:00 sharp & have a hard stop at 8:50 to allow the venue to close by 9:00.
OPEN MIC GUIDELINES:
Please arrive 6:30–6:45 to sign up in person, as spots are limited & will go quickly. No holds.
Each open mic reader will have a time limit of five (5) minutes on stage to share 1–2 poems. If you sign up to read, please stay to hear and support your fellow poets read as well.
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Featured Poet Bios:
IRENE BLAIR HONEYCUTT
A multi-award-winning poet and educator, Irene Blair Honeycutt is author of five collections of poetry. Her debut won the New South Poetry Book Series Contest. Her third, a Brockman-Campbell Book Award finalist. Her newest is Mountains of the Moon: Poems & Pieces (Charlotte Lit Press, Dec. 2024). During her long tenure at Charlotte’s Central Piedmont Community College, Honeycutt received the Award for Excellence in Teaching. She founded the Spring Literary Festival (later named Sensoria) with a 29-year run. Honors include CPCC’s Irene Blair Honeycutt Distinguished Lectureship, Irene Blair Honeycutt Lifetime Achievement Award, and a Legacy Award in her name. Honeycutt has studied in the US and Europe. Originally from Jacksonville, FL, these days she teaches at Charlotte Lit, elsewhere, and mentors writers.
Learn more about Honeycutt’s Mountains of the Moon: Poems & Piece—“a hybrid collection of Haibun, mini essays, dramatic, informal and experimental forms”—here https://pages.charlotte.edu/mark-west/blog/category/storied-charlotte/ and here: https://www.charlottelit.org/press/mountains-of-the-moon
JOSEPH MILLS
A faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, in Winston-Salem, Joseph Mills holds an endowed chair, the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities. Mills has been honored with a UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. He earned degrees in literature from the University of Chicago, University of New Mexico, and University of California, Davis. The author of nine books, Mills won the 2015 North Carolina Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry for his collection This Miraculous Turning, an exploration of race and family. Other work includes the fiction collection Bleachers, and numerous non-fiction and drama pieces. Joe’s new collection of poems, The Holiday Cycle, launches April 2025 with Press 53.
Learn more about Joe & his work here:
https://www.press53.com/poetry-collections/the-holiday-cycle-poems?
and here: https://www.josephrobertmills.com/?
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TINY TABLETOP LIBRARY, In Memory of Poet Mike James (1970–2023), offers FREE, generously donated poetry—books, chapbooks, journals, & anthologies—for you to peruse, take home, & enjoy. See pinned post on our Facebook page for full details.
Please mark yourself GOING to this EVENT if you’ll attend.
Kindly support the venue & baristas, & featured poets if you can.
Event is FREE & open to the public, part of Waterbean Poetry's monthly poetry reading series that offers an INCLUSIVE, SAFE SPACE for all poets & friends of poetry. As your host, my MISSION is to foster diversity, kindness, community, & peace through poetry.
Peace & poetry for all,
Leslie
Leslie M. Rupracht
Host • Co-founder • Ally • Creative Community Builder
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterbean Coffee #2 - Huntersville, 9705 Sam Furr Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078-5046, United States,Huntersville, North Carolina
