March 2020 Event – Cancelled

Cancelled. See our most recent post here.

Enjoy listening to poetry and spoken word—or share some writing of your own—with Poetry in the Boro on Sunday, Mar. 15. Our features will be poets Henry Jones and Jessica Lynn Suchon. Saxophonist Ernest Newsom will accompany Jones. An hour of open mic follows the features.

We’ll be at the Walnut House, 116 N. Walnut. This event is free and open to the public, thanks to support from MTSU Write.

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 parking time limits enforced after 5 PM.

THEME CHALLENGE: This month’s challenge is to write a poem that somehow relates to the word or idea of “mother.”

ABOUT OUR FEATURES

HENRY L. JONES is an award-winning African-American poet, artist, playwright, actor and activist. His literary and visual art deal with cultural, historical and social issues. As a 2019-2020 Art Wire Fellow of the Porch Writers Collective and OZ Arts Center in Nashville, he creatively responds to arts performances shown at OZ. Henry is the author of Run into Blackness: Feeling My Poetic Gumbo (Pneuma Publishing International, 2010). His work also appears in over 30 publications, including 20/20 Vision: A Poetic Response to Photography of Czech Republic and Freedom Papers Journal (Flatrock Writers Series). A Nashville resident, Henry is a Detroit, Michigan native, a Chicago, Illinois transplant, and a Fisk University graduate.

JESSICA LYNN SUCHON is the author of Scavenger, winner of the 2018 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest and forthcoming from YesYes Books. She has received honors from the Academy of American Poets, as well as an Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellowship and a Tennessee Playwrights Studio Fellowship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Willow Springs, Ninth Letter, Yemassee, The Pinch, Muzzle Magazine, and RHINO Poetry, among others. Her librettos have appeared or are forthcoming in works by Stephanie Ann Boyd for the Eureka Ensemble, EKMELES vocal ensemble, and Æpex Contemporary Performance with the Dark Sky Project.