Enjoy listening to poetry—or share some writing of your own—with Poetry in the Boro on Sunday evening, September 8th. Our features will be poets Fred Arroyo and Barbara E. Young.
We’ll be at The Walnut House, 116 N Walnut St., Murfreesboro, TN. Click on the image to view the Event on Facebook, or read below for more details.
This event is free and open to the public, thanks to support from MTSU Write. Water, soda, beer and cider will be available for purchase from the Walnut House; cash and credit accepted. Our thanks to the Walnut House for stepping up to support our usual venue, Murfreesboro Little Theatre, due to the unexpected closure of the log cabin by the city.
Doors open at 6:30 PM. After the features, there’s time to mingle and purchase books before our open mic time begins. Readers can share one piece of poetry or spoken word. Reading a favorite poem by another writer is fine, too. If your piece is over 4 minutes, please speak to the hosts to see if we can accommodate that.
Street parking is available for the Walnut House along Walnut, Main and College. There are no time limits enforced on weekend parking.
WORD CHALLENGE: This month’s challenge words, selected by last month’s audience, are: breathe | suppose | survive | squeeze | muscle | grass | solidarity | ginger | oil | loquacious. Write and share a poem that uses any number of these words, for extra cheers from our audience!
ABOUT OUR FEATURES:
Fred Arroyo is the author of Western Avenue and Other Fictions, The Region of Lost Names: A Novel, and the forthcoming Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging. His fiction is a part of the Library of Congress series “Spotlight on U.S. Hispanic Writers,” and his writing also appears in Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing and The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World. In the past decade Fred has camped, walked, canoed, and fished along the northern border of the U.S., especially in Ontario. This experience is influencing a new collection of short stories and a book of poems, Before Birches Blue. He is an assistant professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.
Barbara Young is a native of Nashville now living in White Bluff, TN. In the mid 1970s she gave up on writing poetry, believing that to write one should have something to say. About ten years ago she concluded that she had been wrong. She became addicted to poem-a-day challenges, and during one recent April responded to four prompt sites for a total of 134 drafts. That was a bad idea, she says. Barbara is author of two chapbooks published in 2018: Like a Movie. Like a Mary Sue from dancing girl press and Testify, which was awarded the Peter Meinke Prize from Yellow Jacket Press. Learn more about her at https://barbaraeyoung.com/.
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