Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/05/2021
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Main Street Books
Categories
THIS EVENT IS LIVE
ON THE OUTDOOR STAGE
I am honored to be joining Joseph Bathanti and local poets, Ann Campanella, Brenda Flanagan, Tootsie O’Hara, and the late Tony Abbott, as we share our poems and others’ poems published by Press 53. This anthology brings together 116 poets from across the state, including six North Carolina poets laureate. Edited by former North Carolina poet laureate Joseph Bathanti and 9/11 family member and former literature and theater director for the North Carolina Arts Council David Potorti, Crossing the Rift takes head-on what Carolyn Forché calls “the poetry of witness” and its advocacy “for a shared sense of humanity and collective resistance. No matter how you were touched by the events of September 11th, 2001, that moment continues to resonate