Saturday, November 15, 8:00pm
Five Themes, with poets Chall Gray, Michael Boyko, Lisa McCool-Grime, Ashley Steineger and Gary Hawkins.
$5 for BMCM+AC members & students w/ID / $8 for non-members.
Gary Hawkins is a poet, teacher, and scholar, who grew up in the suburbs. His poetry, pedagogy, and criticism have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Teaching Creative Writing in Higher Education, Emily Dickinson Journal, and other venues. He teaches writing and serves as associate dean at Warren Wilson College, and he thrills at having one of poetry’s most enviable addresses in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Chall Gray, a native Western North Carolinian, lives and works in Asheville. His fiction and and essays have been published in dozens of local and national publications. He is currently at work on a collection of stories. He also designs and builds lighting fixtures and opens bars.
Michael Boyko is the author of The Hour Sets, published by Calamari Press, with killer illustrations by Derek White. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
Ashley Steineger, originally from Raleigh, NC, moved to the area to live the country life. She is a psychologist by training and a writer at heart. Her hobbies include fishing, avoiding small talk, taking naps during thunderstorms and asking rhetorical existential questions. She loves laughter and will always remain a child at heart. Her poetry is influenced by personal experience.
Lisa McCool-Grime loves Sappho, wallflower women and collaborations. Her wallflower women have appeared in DIAGRAM, Weave, Arsenic Lobster and elsewhere. A few of her collaborative publications include qarrtsiluni, elimae and PANK. Tupelo press awarded one of her poems first place in their Fragments of Sappho contest.
