CarolinaPoets
Online poetry events, online poetry workshops, information about latest books and publishing opportunities with a focus on North and South Carolina.
Run by non-profit Wits End Poetry. PoetryGoesViral curators: Kimberly J Simms and Andrew Clark. This is a grassroots organization sponsored by Greenville non-profit Wits End Poetry.
This installment of celebrates recent winners from the international Southern Fried Poetry Slam Festival Thursday 6/24/21 at 7:00pm online . This year's festival featured close to 200 poets representing 5 countries and 15 US states. The Festival was founded by Alan Wolfe in 1993. Here is a taste of some of that talent! Ed Mabrey, 2021 Southern Fried Individual Poetry Slam Champion. Dove Dupree, Top Ten Individual and Team Poetry Slam Finalist, Black Atticus, Final Four Team Slam Finalist!
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This event will be live-streamed on the page and YouTube Channel Carolina Poets.
Ed Mabrey, actor, author, and speaker, exemplifies the modern-day renaissance artist. From the page to the stage and the script to the screen, Ed captivates, motivates, and promulgates the performing arts. He is considered the greatest poet in the history of Poetry Slam—4 World Championships, 6 consecutive Regional Championships, and over 500 wins in his career. Ed tours the country professionally as a poet, comedian, and professional speaker. Also, an NAACP Image Award Nominee, Ed has been on Seasons 3, 5, and 6 of Verses and Flow (TV One), as well as appearing on broadcasts on ABC, FOX, HBO All Def Digital, Crackle, CNN, and C-SPAN. Ed was a speaker at 2015 TEDx Dayton and 2017 TEDx Evans Street. As the 2019 APCA Spoken Word Artist of the Year, Ed has performed at over 200 colleges and universities around the country teaching workshops and conducting seminars. A Watering Hole graduate fellow and Scioto Retreat Cohort, Ed is a Pushcart nominee and contributed poems to a New York Times National bestselling anthology.
Ed has been commissioned to craft a speech encompassing the Freedom Award recipients and event theme for 2017, 2018 and 2019
Dove Dupree is a poet, lyricist, actor, youth advocate, business owner and much more. He is the 2021 King of the South Champion and Top Ten Southern Fried Poetry Slam Finlist. His goal in his music and poetry is to ignite, impact, and inspire. He is also a teaching artist, where he goes into schools to incorporate music, poetry, and rap across the curriculum and is the recipient of the 2020 Carrie and Skip Gordon Emerging Teaching Artist Award. Dove's other honors include a 2-time Mayan Industry Award Winner for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Piece, a Writer's Ball "Best Original Piece" winner, and countless spoken word titles around the country. He's been a part of the award-winning spoken word team "Say What" over the past 5 years, which is ranked 5th at the National Poetry Slam.
Black Atticus is one of the most intellectual and heartfelt voices of the new southern hip-hop movement.
Hailing from Knoxville, TN, Atticus weaves the art of conversation through nu-sage wisdom with a dash of mother wit, the hard facts of life, and an honest sense of humor that hits home seamlessly.
06/06/2021
Dear Literary Folks,
June 30th is the deadline for submissions to Fall Lines Literary Journal - don't wait for the last moment: http://jasperproject.org/fall-lines
Fall Lines 2021 — The Jasper Project Fall Lines – a literary convergence is a literary journal presented by The Jasper Project in partnership with Richland Library and One Columbia for Arts and Culture.
03/06/2021
Great news - a recording of Jaki Shelton Green's i want to undie you.
If you buy a copy of the CD, Jacar Press will deduct the cost of the CD from the cost of the book and ship it for free. Email [email protected] directly for details.
http://jacarpress.com/i-want-to-undie-you/
I Want to Undie You, by Jaki Shelton Green 3 track album
28/05/2021
If you missed this amazing episode of Poetry Goes Viral hosted by Eric Tran, you can watch it in the archive on our YouTube Channel Carolina Poets! https://youtu.be/tjjtG1z29CE
Poetry Goes Viral: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Hosted by Eric Tran Join us for the next installment of this Thursday at 7:00pm online and our YouTube channel featuring a celebration of Asian A...
Paper and Steel: an ekphrastic performance
Wednesday, May 19th, 6-8 pm
@ Orangeburg County Fine Arts Center
649 Riverside Drive, Orangeburg, SC 29115
Organized by Mind Gravy Poetry
with Singer/Songwriter, Lang Owen
and poets, Omari Fox, Tamara Miles, Derek Berry, Star Fyuquin and Al Black
11/05/2021
One of our featured readers this Thursday will be Khalisa Rae.
Khalisa is a poet and journalist in Durham, NC that speaks with furious rebellion. She is the author of Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat (Red Hen Press 2021). Her essays are featured in Autostraddle, Catapult, LitHub, as well as articles in B*tch Media, NBC-BLK, and others. Her poetry appears in Frontier Poetry, Florida Review, Rust & Moth, PANK, Hellebore, Sundog Lit, HOBART, among countless others. She is the winner of the Bright Wings Poetry contest, the Furious Flower Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, and the White Stag Publishing Contest, among other prizes. Currently, she serves as Assistant Editor for Glass Poetry and co-founder of Think in Ink and the Women of Color Speak reading series. Her second collection Unlearning Eden is forthcoming from White Stag Publishing in 2022. Follow her at on Twitter. Find more information here: khalisarae.com.
Khalisa Rae | Author Poet Activist Khalisa Rae Poet | Leader | Editor Learn more Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat available for pre-order now at Red Hen Press: Click Here Khalisa Rae Poet | Educator | Performer Learn more
Chewing the Gristle John Lane
https://youtu.be/czAYbgYye-0
In this episode of Chewing the Gristle, poets Al Black and Tim Conroy chat with environmentalist, educator, and poet, John Lane. Exuding warmth and wisdom, John Lane shares practical lessons on writing and revising poetry. John speaks about the importance of help from friends like the poet, Deno Trakas, to provide feedback as part of his revision process. John discusses how he has dealt with rejection along the arc of a productive career where major trends in poetry shift. Throughout the conversation, John brings the listeners back to craft with reminders to ground emotions with images. He refers to Gregory Orr’s construct of temperaments or sensibilities for poets to consider, especially highlighted, is musicality/sound. John reads from his deeply rooted collections, including The Old Rob Poems, The Mad Kayaker, and Anthropocene Blues. He reveals three great Canadian poets that listeners will want to know. In a clip that could not be included because of technical reasons, he praises Sparrow Envy, a collection of poems by the poet Drew Lanham, and the importance of his prescient poem, Rules for the Black Birdwatcher. John Lane’s books and poetry collections are available at the Hub City Bookshop. https://www.hubcity.org/bookshop
In this episode of Chewing the Gristle, poets Al Black and Tim Conroy chat with environmentalist, educator, and poet, John Lane. Exuding warmth and wisdom, J...
Charleston Currents – PALMETTO POEM: Praise
charlestoncurrents.com Angelo Geter serves as the poet laureate of Rock Hill. He is a national poetry slam champion, finalist at several regional competitions and serves on the board of directors for the Watering Hole poetry organization. Most recently, he was awarded a 2020 Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of Am...
Civil Disobedience
By Tony Robles
Curfews
Tear gas
killer cops
broken glass
random bricks left
in a pile
up for grabs
(Left by whom?)
thousands of fists in
the air holding pieces
Stolen land
Stolen hearts
Stolen minds
Stolen lives
that belong to us
together lifting the
knee of white supremacy
off our necks
in the midst of
a pandemic
The president holds the
bible like a holiday fruitcake,
a prop
it's on almost all channels
except for the ones that
promised not to televise
this revolution
and on a stretch of
Greenville Highway a man
in a pick up truck drives
with a huge Confederate
flag mounted in the rear
flapping like the tongue
of a hungry dog
a few seconds later a
moving truck with the words
"Blacks Moving" heads down
the same stretch of highway
there are no protest
Signs, no chanting on
this stretch of highway
Just a steady wind
branches and bushes
moving like arms
in a show
of civil disobedience
(c) 2020 Tony Robles
Chewing the Gristle with Ray McManus
https://youtu.be/pisXhgR_eck
In this episode of Chewing the Gristle, Poets Al Black and Tim Conroy chat with poet Ray McManus. Ray traces his path from good-hearted delinquency, including swiping Perrine's Sound and Sense from the school's library to returning the book years later. He speaks of his initial academic haze as well as his utter acknowledgment and appreciation for a universe aligned to lift him from his own self-destructive tendencies. Ray talks from his heart's chambers about the influences of Kwame Dawes and Ed Madden as well as many others. Ray reflects on his obligation to give back and offers many insights for the emerging writer. To sum up, Ray slays.
In this episode of Chewing the Gristle, poets Al Black and Tim Conroy chat with poet Ray McManus. Ray traces his path from good-hearted delinquency, includin...
No Turning Back: The Burning Soul of the Nation
https://tonyrobles.wordpress.com/2020/05/31/no-turning-back-the-burning-soul-of-the-nation/
tonyrobles.wordpress.com The soul of the nation is burning. The streets are on fire, minds are on fire, hearts are on fire. For every broken glass there are shattered lives, broken identities, severed connections to ours…
Walking in Translation
https://tonyrobles.wordpress.com/2020/05/26/walking-in-translation/
tonyrobles.wordpress.com Caminando—walking in Spanish. That’s what I did on this stretch of road in Western North Carolina. I carry a small bag; inside is a face mask and small bottle of hand sanitizer along with a portab…
Chewing The Gristle with Poety LIbby Bernardin
Poets Al Black and Tim Conroy chat with Libby Bernardin where she explores her entry into poetry, key moments in her path, and her passion for words and nature. In this chat, highlighted is the importance of the poet's practice of reading poetry, the value of a writing tribe, and other craft advice. She shares special memories of encounters with Joy Harjo and James Dickey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgecYoi4wIs
Poets Al Black and Tim Conroy chat with Libby Bernardin where she explores her entry into poetry, key moments in her path, and her passion for words and natu...
Chewing The Gristle Moody Black
This is the next episode of of Chewing the Gristle with national touring spoken word artist and poet, Moody Black:
Poets Al Black and Tim Conroy interview performance poet, comedian, and motivational speaker Moody Black. Moody reflects on his early poetry influences, provides lessons to the emerging performance poet, explains his purpose for writing and creating, and reads and performs his poetry in sensational riffs sharing wisdom, pain, hopefulness, joy, and more.
Poets Al Black and Tim Conroy interview performance poet, comedian, and motivational speaker Moody Black. Moody reflects on his early poetry influences, prov...
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