Enjoy listening to poetry – or share some writing of your own – with Poetry in the Boro! Our feature in June will be Denise Satterfield Wilson, and we’ll follow that with an edition of In Other Voices, when actors read poetry YOU submit. Poems may be your own work or by others.
We’ll be back at Murfreesboro Little Theatre, 702 Ewing Blvd. This event is free and open to the public, thanks to support from MTSU Write.
About our Feature
DENISE SATTERFIELD WILSON first began writing to express a “roller coaster of emotions” following the murder of her teenage son’s best friend, Darius Dobbins, in 1986. Since then she’s shared her poems and short stories at schools, churches, prisons, coffee houses, the Tennessee Women’s Theater Project, and the Southern Festival of Books. She’s been a featured writer in Calliope Magazine and in projects led by Tennessee Poet Laureate Maggi Britton Vaughn, and her work appears in The Nashville PRIDE, Contempora Magazine, and other publications. Denise is author of one chapbook, “Sassy Thoughts, Sweet Memories and Poetic Vibes.” She’s also special to us as one of the founding poets of Poetry in the Boro!
Event Details
Doors open at 6:30 and the program begins at 7:00. After our feature, Murfreesboro Little Theatre actors will read work they select from the poems the audience submits. You must bring poems PRINTED in a standard (Times New Roman or similar) 12 pt. font, or the poems can be in a book. If you do not have access to a printer, we will accept 1 or 2 poems by email ONLY in the week prior to the event (see our Contact page). Poems should generally be no more than 2 printed pages, although we’ll consider something that goes just a bit longer.
Murfreesboro Little Theatre has its own parking lot. Parking on the street in the area is fine, too – just don’t block any driveways. Remember that there is ongoing construction in Murfreesboro in parts of downtown and near MTSU, so if you travel through those areas, you may want to allow a little extra time.