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Starbucks Coffee on Providence Road has provided coffee for the Charlotte Writers' Club meetings, from September 2004 through May 2006. The members greatly appreciate this connection.
***Starbucks Poetry Connection***
Gail Peck
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Starbucks at Providence and Cherokee
7:00 pm Come for cappuccino, catch up with friends
7:30 pm Gail Peck will read and discuss her new work, From Terezin, which is based on works of art. Her focus is on what happens to children in war with emphasis on WWII and the Holocaust
8:30 pm Open mic
Gail Peck earned her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. Her first chapbook won the North Carolina Harperprints Award and her first full-length won the Texas Review Breakthrough Contest. A chapbook, Foreshadow, and a full-length, Thirst, were published by Main Street Rag. Her most recent book is From Terezin
. Poems and essays have appeared in The Southern Review, Greensboro Review, Louisville Review, Cimarron Review, Mississippi Review, Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, Kestrel, Brevity and elsewhere. Her work has been widely anthologized, and she was a 2007 finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Award.
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The Charlotte Writers’ Club
present
Don Mager
Starbucks at Providence and Cherokee
Saturday, March 29, 2008
7:00pm Come for cappuccino
7:30 pm Don will read and discuss his work
8:30 pm Open mic
In a time when energy consumption strains the earth’s resources and degrades the environment in drastic, perhaps catastrophic ways, the American automobile industry aggressively promotes products with glamorous fantasies of testosterone rushes about speed and rugged adventure. Meanwhile, suburban sprawl creates a daily diet of long commutes, gridlock, road rage and parking nightmares.
Somewhere between the myth of the car and the reality of drivers, fall small unexpected epiphanies.
Don Mager’s Drive Time captures and honors thirty such moments.
Poet Helen Frost (author of Keesha’s House, Braids, and Spinning through the Universe) remarked that these “affectionate” poems capture “a kind of wry enjoyment of the world . . .”
Don Mager teaches at Johnson C. Smith University and has published poems and German, Czech and Russian translations for over 45 years. Recent poems have appeared in Kakalak, Main Street Rag, Eclectica and Ezra. His books are To Track The Wounded One (1987), Glosses (1992), Borderings (1996), That Which is Owed to Death (1996), Good Turns (1999), and The Elegance of the Ungraspable (2001). He wrote the libretto for Marc Satterwhite’s opera Akhmatova. Mager’s webpage is www.donmager.org .
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January 2008 Starbucks Poetry Connection
The Charlotte Writers’ Club
present
Pat Riviere-Seel
Saturday, January 12, 2008
7:00 PM Come for warm winter drinks
7:30 PM Pat will read and discuss her work
8:30 PM Open mic.
Pat Riviere-Seel’s
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Starbucks at Providence and Cherokee
Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Saturday, November 17, 7:30 p.m. Kakalak 2007 Anthology of Carolina Poets editors Richard Allen Taylor, Beth Cagle Burt and Lisa Zerkle will read poetry and discuss their experiences in editing one of the region’s most popular poetry contest anthologies (see http://www.kakalak.net/). Discussion will cover: What poetry editors look for, tips for submitting to contests, maximizing your chances of selection, and much more. Richard, Lisa and Beth will also read a few of their own poems—those they would have submitted if they had been eligible (i.e., had they not been the editors). Join in the fun. Come early for coffee and socializing. Sign up for the open mike that starts at 8:30.
7:00 PM Come for cappuccino, catch up with friends
7:30 PM The editors of Kakalak will discuss their upcoming anthology competition: from submitting an entry to publication.
8:30 PM Open mic
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Gail Peck
Saturday, October 20, 2007
7:00 PM Come for cappuccino, catch up with friends
7:30 PM Gail Peck will read and talk about her new work which is based on works of art. Her focus is on what happens to children in war with emphasis on WWII and the Holocaust
8:30 PM Open mic
Gail Peck earned her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. Her first chapbook won the North Carolina Harperprints Award and her first full-length won the Texas Review Breakthrough Contest. A chapbook, Foreshadow, and a full-length, Thirst, were published by Main Street Rag. Poems and essays have appeared in The Southern Review, Greensboro Review, Louisville Review, Cimarron Review, Mississippi Review, Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, Kestrel, Brevity and elsewhere. Her work has been widely anthologized, and she was a 2007 finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Award.
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Saturday, September 8, 7:30 p.m.
Don Mager
7:00 pm Come for cappuccino, catch up with friends
7:30 pm Don will read and discuss his work
8:30 pm Open mic
Don Mager teaches at Johnson C. Smith University and has published poems in German, Czech and Russian translations for over 45 years. Recent poems have appeared in Kakalak, Main Street Rag, Eclectica
and Ezra. His books are To Track The Wounded One (1987), Glosses (1992), Borderings (1996), That Which is Owed to Death (1996), Good Turns (1999), and The Elegance of the Ungraspable (2001). He wrote the libretto for Marc Satterwhite’s opera Akhmatova. Mager’s website is www.donmager.org .
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***Starbucks Poetry Connection***
Providence Rd. and Cherokee
Saturday, August 11, 7:30 p.m.
Starbucks
Poetry Connection will present a preview of
Kakalak 2007 Anthology of Carolina Poets
Charlotte Writers' Club Poets and Artists will read their work from Kakalak 2007 Anthology of Carolina Poets
CWC Members to Read:
An exciting evening is planned for a preview reading and presentation of Kakalak 2007 Anthology of Carolina Poets. Kakalak 2007 co-editors and the Charlotte Writers' Club are seeking up to ten members to participate by reading poetry and/or presenting art work during the first segment of the event. Additional poets and artists, both Kakalak contributors and other community members, are encouraged to read their poetry during the open mic session that follows. Charlotte Writers' Club members who wish to participate in the first segment of this premier event should email kakalakpoetry@aol.com. Kakalak Anthologies will be available for purchase during the event.
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Terri Wolfe and
Ann Campanella
"Poetry of Grief"
Saturday, July 21, 2007
7:30 PM
There will be an open mic beginning at 8:30 PM
Terri Wolfe lives in Charlotte and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (B.A.) and Queens University of Charlotte (M.F.A.). Winner of the Charlotte Writers Club Poetry Contest in 2003 and 2001, her poems have appeared in Iodine, The Wild Goose Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, and Independence Boulevard and are forthcoming in The Charlotte Writers Club Anthology 2007 and in The Poetry of Recovery Anthology. She currently teaches creative writing in the Center for Lifelong Learning at Queens University.
Ann Campanella, formerly a magazine and newspaper editor, turned to creative writing to nourish her soul. Her poetry collection, What Flies Away, was published by Main Street Rag in 2006. This book weaves together the story of her mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s, her father’s death and, finally, the miracle of her daughter’s birth. With nature and animals as her backdrop, Campanella’s writing seeks to illuminate the many ways in which we, as humans, are connected. Twice, she received the Poet Laureate Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society. She was also selected for the Blumenthal Readers & Writers Series by the North Carolina Writers’ Network. She lives on a small farm in Huntersville, NC, with her husband, daughter and animals.
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Jonathan Rice
LB Green
7:00 p.m. - Come for cappuccino and warm winter drinks
7:30 p.m. - Jonathan and LB will read and discuss their poetry
8:30 p.m. - Open mic
Jonathan K. Rice, originally from Indiana, grew up in south Florida, and presently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife and family. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and also did graduate work at Erskine Theological Seminary and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary at Charlotte. He is the editor and publisher of Iodine Poetry Journal, which he established in 2000. He co-edited the anthology, Celebrating Life, with Lynne Payne in 2002, and authored his first chapbook, Shooting Pool With A Cellist, in 2003. His latest book, Ukulele and Other Poems, (Main Street Rag, 2006) is a full-length collection. His poetry has appeared in many periodicals. He has also been a longtime host of poetry readings in Charlotte since 1999.
L. B. Green is an essayist, poet, painter, photographer, teacher and freelance writer who lives in Davidson, North Carolina. In February 2005, with 10 work samples of poetry from her manuscript-in-progress, Lilas et la lame, she gained admission to The Kenyon Review Summer Program for Writers at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. In June and July that same year she studied with faculty advisor and instructor David Baker, Poetry Editor of the Kenyon Review, and with Meghan O’Rourke, Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. Along with eight other poets from NYC to California, some of whom were also makers of documentary film and writers of fiction, she worked to research and compile history and information for a five-chapter book on Poetry and Poetics. Because the program’s goal is to generate all new work, along with doing the required research, she was also required to write a new poem in form each day. She was awarded a 2005-2006 Fellowship in Literature for Poetry by the North Carolina Arts Council. Her fellowship project was to complete the full-length manuscript-in-progress, Lilas et la lame, by the end of June 2006. Her poetry chapbook, Judas Trees North of the House, was named winner of the Randall Jarrell Harperprints Award, an annual competition sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network. Harperprints Press published the book in 2003. She received The Robert Ruark Foundation First Prize for Poetry in Traditional Form in 1997. In 2006 she was nominated to join The Southern Arts Federation, an adjudicated site, an online registry, for artists who live and work in eight southern states, managed by the server Carnegie Mellon. She has poems and photography posted on this site, the link to which is: http://www.southernartistry.org/portfolio.cfm?id=1064&last=curious.
She is currently at work on a third collection of poetry, and also on a collection of literary nonfiction.
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Publishing Panel
Saturday, May 19, 2007
7:00pm Come for cappuccino
7:30pm Barbara Lawing, Mary Phillips, Beth Cagle Burt, and Lisa Kline will talk about their publishing experiences in conjunction with their work.
8:30 pm Open mic
Our May gathering will focus on the variety of publishing experiences. Each of the speakers has a different story to tell. You may want to bring pens and paper to take notes. Topics such as distributors, agents, and the publishing process will be discussed.
Beth Cagle Burt
Associate Editor of moonShine review www.thriftpoeticarts.com/moonshine.html
Co-Editor of Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets
www.kakalak.net
Mary Phillips published an academic book focused on material from the Old Testament on a CD.
Lisa Kline has published two novels for young people: ELEANOR HILL, winner of the N. C. Juvenile Literature Award, and THE PRINCESSES OF ATLANTIS. A third, FLYING UNDER THE RADAR, is forthcoming from Delacorte Press. Her stories for young people have appeared in Spider, Cicada, Odyssey, and Cricket. Her stories for adults have appeared in The Plum Review, Peregrine, Women's Work, The Belletrist Review, and several anthologies, including An Intricate Weave, In My Life and Tis the Season. She is earning an MFA in fiction from Queens University.
Barbara Lawing instructs writing classes and leads writing groups which perform their work regularly. Her books have been published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company. www.BarbaraLawing.com
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***Starbucks Poetry Series***
Providence Rd. and Cherokee
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Starbucks Poetry Connection
In honor of National Poetry Month
Open-mic all evening
Bring your poems to read
Starbucks at Providence and Cherokee
Come for coffee and cappuccinos 7:00
Open-mic begins at 7:30
(note the time change)
Hope to see you there!
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Tootsie O’Hara and Diana Pinckney
Providence Rd. and Cherokee
Saturday
March 10, 2007
7:30 pm Come for cappuccino
8:00 pm Tootsie and Diana will read and discuss their poetry.
9:00 pm Open mic.............. bring your poems to read.
Tootsie’s poems have been published in numerous journals and her chapbook, A Passing Certainty, was published by Pudding House Press . She has taught writing at UNC Charlotte, CPCC, and Queens University’s Life Long Learning Center and has a graduate degree in Teaching English as a Second Language.
Diana Pinckney has published poetry and prose in such journals and magazines as Cream City Review, Tar River Poetry, Iodine, Creative Loafing, Green Mountains Review (forthcoming), Atlanta Review (forthcoming) and many others. She has three collections of poetry: Fishing With Tall Women, Persephone Press, White Linen, Nightshade Press & Alchemy, Main Street Rag Press. Pinckney was selected to read in 2004 for the Sundown Series at Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston, S.C. She teaches poetry writing in the Center for Lifelong Learning at Queens University, Charlotte, N.C.
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Saturday, 3 February 2007
7:00pm Come for cappuccino and warm winter drinks
8:00pm Suzanne, Brenda, Gilda, & Ann, will read their poetry
9:00pm Open mic
Ann Campanella’s new book, What Flies Away, welcomes the reader into a landscape filled with pain and joy. Her poems weave together the story of her mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s, her father’s death and, finally, the miracle of her daughter’s birth. With nature and animals as her backdrop, Campanella’s poetry seeks to illuminate the many ways in which we, as humans, are connected. Twice, she has received the Poet Laureate Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society; her work was selected for the Blumenthal Readers & Writers Series, and her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Main Street Rag.
Brenda Graham, a native South Carolinian, has lived in Denver, North Carolina, for twenty years. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Main Street Rag, Southern Poetry Review, Wellspring, The Devil’s Millhopper, and Award Winning Poems, N.C. Poetry Society. In 1998, her poem, MOTH, received the First Place Award in the Charlotte Writers’ Club Poetry Contest. She is a grateful member of the Sisterhood of The Caribou Poets, who fondly refer to themselves as GABS – Gilda, Ann, Brenda, Suzanne.
Suzanne Leitner was born and reared in Lincoln County, NC and now resides in Cornelius with her husband, one daughter and one dog. She has had work recognized by the Poetry Council of N.C. and the Writers' Workshop, among others. She has also had work appear in Main Street Rag, Crucible, Cairn, The Lyricist, Kakalak and others. Her chapbook String Quilt was published in 2005. She writes poetry, fiction and essays, and leads poetry workshops in area classrooms.
Gilda Morina Syverson has exhibited her art work regionally, nationally & internationally. Her award winning poems and creative non-fiction articles have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines both in the U.S. and Canada. Main Street Rag published Gilda’s chapbook, “In This Dream Everything Remains Inside,” in the autumn of 2004. She was the 2006 recipient of the 1st Place, Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Award presented by the Charlotte Writers’ Club. In both her poetry & visual art, Syverson seeks to form a bridge between everyday life and the world of spirit & energy.
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Saturday, January 13, 2007
The Editors of Kakalak Beth Cagle Burt, Richard Taylor, & Lisa Zerkle
7:00 p.m. Come for cappuccino and warm winter drinks
8:00 p.m. Beth, Richard, & Lisa will read their poetry
9:00 p.m. Open mic
Beth Cagle Burt, Richard Allen Taylor, and Lisa Zerkle are co-editors of Kakalak 2006: An Anthology of Carolina Poets and the forthcoming Kakalak 2007: Anthology of Carolina Poets.
Beth is North Carolina native, a poet, photographer, and college writing tutor. Her award-winning chapbook, The Fearless Tattoo, was published in 2003 (www.shadowpoetry.com). Beth’s poems and photographs have appeared in Slipstream, Blue Collar Review, Georgia State University Review, New York Quarterly, and Tulane Review.
Richard is a native and resident of Charlotte, NC. His
poems have appeared in Main Street Rag, Iodine Poetry Journal, Erete's Bloom,
Wild Plum, Ibbetson Street, Thrift Poetic Arts Journal, Poems Neidergassen,
Rattle, The Dead Mule, James River Poetry Review, The Powhatan Review, South
Carolina Review. He is the author of Something to Read on the Plane
Lisa‘s poetry has appeared in Crucible, Thrift Poetic Arts, Main Street Rag, and online at literarymama.com. In 2004, her poem "Obsequy" took first prize in the Jubilee Literary Arts Festival. Lisa earned a BA in English and French from Tulane University. She lives in Charlotte, NC, with her husband and their three children.
January is the anniversary of The Starbucks Poetry Connection. During 2006 we featured Julie King, Carol Fant, Muhammad Abdullah, the Davidson College Poets, Charles Israel, Betty Neal, Melanie Faith, Elena Arosemena, Jason Argobast, Terri Wolfe, Louise Rockwell, Barbara Lawing, Lynn Bishop, Joy Beshears Hagy, Ann Campanella, Gilda Morina Syverson, and we presented “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by Dylan Thomas.
Thanks for a great year everyone!
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Holiday Book Festival, Saturday, December 9, 2006
“A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by Dylan Thomas
6:30 pm Holiday Book Festival. Authors will be present.
8:00 pm “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.” Everyone is invited.
9:00 pm. Open-mic.....! Bring your holiday poems to read.
Starbucks and The Charlotte Writers’ Club have joined together and invited local writers to bring their published poetry and prose for a book festival. Come for spiced holiday drinks, browse, and meet the authors. Later in the evening we will have a presentation of the masterpiece, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” by Dylan Thomas. Bring your own holiday poems for an open-mic following the reading. This should be an evening to remember!
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Gilda Morina Syverson
Saturday
18 November 2006
7:00 p.m. Come for cappuccino.................
8:00 p.m. Gilda will read and discuss her poetry.
9:00 p.m. Open mic............ bring your poems to read.
Gilda Morina Syverson will read her poetry and tell stories of the angels she’s been drawing for over 14 years. Gilda will also have her Christmas, 2006 angel, “Through the Woods,” and a few other seraphs on hand to view. Besides having exhibited her art work regionally, nationally & internationally, Gilda’s award winning poems and creative non-fiction articles have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines both in the U.S. and Canada. Main Street Rag published Gilda’s chapbook, “In This Dream Everything Remains Inside,” in the autumn of 2004. She was the 2006 recipient of the 1st Place, Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Award presented by the Charlotte Writers’ Club. In both her poetry & visual art, Syverson seeks to form a bridge between everyday life and the world of spirit & energy. Come join us as we enter this holiday season.
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October 21, 2006 - Ann Campanella
7:00 p.m. Come for cappuccino .................
8:00 p.m . Ann will read and discuss her poetry.
9:00 p.m. Open Mic......... bring your poems to read.
Join Ann Campanella for a poetry reading and a discussion about grief and writing. Her new book, What Flies Away, welcomes the reader into a landscape filled with pain and joy. Her poems weave together the story of her mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s, her father’s death and, finally, the miracle of her daughter’s birth. With nature and animals as her backdrop, Campanella’s poetry seeks to illuminate the many ways in which we, as humans, are connected. Twice, she has received the Poet Laureate Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society; her work was selected for the Blumenthal Readers & Writers Series, and her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Main Street Rag.
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Joy Beshears Hagy Saturday, September 16, 2006
7:00 p.m. Come for cappuccino.................
8:00 p.m. Joy will read and discuss her poetry
9:00 PM Open mic.......bring your poems to read
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Joy Beshears Hagy lives on High Rock Lake in Lexington, NC with her husband, two dogs and a cat. Hagy holds a BA from Salem College, where she serves as the director of the Writing Center, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from various journals and anthologies including Poet’s Canvas, THRIFT, Main Street Rag, Southern Gothic Online, R-KV-R-Y Quarterly, In the Yard: A Poetry Anthology, Mountain Time and Caesura. Her poem, "Rapture" was chosen by Kathryn Stripling Byer as Honorable Mention in the 2006 NC State Poetry Contest.
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Saturday, August 19, 2006
7:00 p.m. Come for cappuccino.
8:00 p.m. Readers: Barbara Lawing and Terri McCord
9:00 p.m. Open mic. Bring your poems to read.
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Starbucks started this poetry series in January 2005.
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***Past Events in the Starbucks Poetry Series***
Mike, Elena, and Melanie read and discuss their poetry. 20 May 2006
Charles Israel and Betty Neal. 22 April 2006
Davidson College Poets. 11 March 2006
Muhammad Abdullah, 8 February 2006
Poetry by Queens University MFA students.7 January 2006
Don Mager and Poets from Johnson C. Smith University, Saturday 12 November, 2005, 7:00 PM
Poets from CPCC, Saturday
15 October, 2005
"Two Gentlemen of Charlotte." Andy
Kalnik and Clarence Eden read their poetry. Saturday, 20 August 2005
Joseph Bathanti Saturday, 12 March 2005, 7:00 pm. The perfect cappuccino hour...
Maureen Ryan Griffin, Saturday, 12 February, 2005.