The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville is proud to announce an evening of poetry with five of Asheville’s most interesting poets on Thursday, February 7 at 7:30 p.m. featuring Ekua Adisa, Melanie Bianchi, Erik Moellering, Eric Steineger and Robert Zachary.
Admission: $7 / $5 for BMCM+AC members & students
Poets:
Ekua Adisa is a writer, a community organizer, and a grassroots healing artist bred in the flat lands of Milwaukee Wisconsin. More than anything else, she enjoys writing poetry and creative nonfiction. Ekua has been published in a number of collective publications and she is currently putting the finishing touches on the first volume of an epic memoir. She believes that story medicine is one of the most powerful healing tools on the planet.
Melanie McGee Bianchi published poetry and fiction in children’s and teen publications between the ages of 12 and 23. For the past 16 years, she has been a fixture on the WNC journalism scene.
Melanie was arts & entertainment editor at Mountain Xpress for a decade, winning statewide, national, and international awards for her work. She has written for regional and national lifestyle magazines – under her own name and four pseudonyms – and is the current editor of Verve, a women’s fashion-and-culture magazine based in Hendersonville. After her son was born in 2006, Melanie began writing poetry again. She published poems in Asheville Poetry Review in 2010 and 2011, and was a finalist in 2011 for the annual Black Warrior Review Poetry Prize out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Erik Moellering has lived in Asheville, NC since 2008, where he teaches English at A-B Tech Community College. In addition to teaching and writing poetry, he performs regularly as an actor and dancer with local companies and artists.
Eric Steineger teaches English at A-B Tech Community College. He has an M.F.A in Creative Writing from Antioch Los Angeles and edits poetry for The Citron Review. His work has been featured in Asheville Poetry Review, Elimae, and The Los Angeles Review, among others. In his spare time, he competes in cross-country races and attends local food happenings with his rock star girlfriend.
Robert Zachary was born and raised in Alabama during ‘Jim Crow’ and the beginning of the great Civil Rights Movements. He became an activist at early age and has remained a advocate for peace, nonviolence and justice throughout his life. Zachary has worked as a teacher/educator, therapist and mediator over his years of being involved. He is also a poet, storyteller and ordained minister and Chaplain. He is presently director at the Healing-Love Institute and plans to publish a book of poems early next year, after thirty years of not publishing.
