Reading: Jeff Davis' reading "NatureS" and sculpture display by Joyce Blunk
April 28th, 8pm
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
Free
Please join us on April 28 at 8:00pm, for the long-awaited “coming out” party for Asheville poet Jeff Davis. A long-time resident of Asheville, Davis will be celebrating the publication of his first collection of poems NatureS, which is being published by Thomas Rain Crowe’s New Native Press in Cullowhee. As part of this book launch celebration, paintings and sculpture by Asheville artist Joyce Blunk will also be on display.
The poems in the NatureS book were written over the course of a career, and are love poems to and of nature, to and of flesh. Davis’ poems in this collection are place-specific to the western North Carolina mountains, their fauna and flora, their cultures and seasons. Commenting on Davis’s new book, western North Carolina’s own Jonathan Williams has written: “I divide poetry into what I can read and what I cannot read. I am new to Jeff Davis’ work but hit’ll read!!! It reminds me that writers named Robert Creeley and Charles Olson once taught at Black Mountain College in Buncombe County NC–and made a difference.”
Joyce Blunk brings a reputation as an internationally exhibited artist to the collaboration. Her intricate box collages using objects found in nature have been shown in France, Germany, Ireland, Asia, Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
The April 28th BMCM+AC event, which is being co-sponsored by the Captain’s Bookshelf and Reader’s Corner will include a reading from Davis, as well as some words from his collaborator Joyce Blunk. There will be an opportunity for those in attendance to meet and talk to both artists and to buy signed copies of the new book. The evening is free to the general public. More information is available by calling BMCM+AC at 828-350-8484.
