(Li-Young Lee)
ASHEVILLE WORDFEST IS COMING, APRIL 30-MAY 3. Go to their website for all the information you could possibly want: schedule, poets, history, and a photo archive of last year's festival. WordFest live webcasts the evening (7-9 pm) readings from this site so everyone with access to wifi, dial-up, ethernet and telepathic powers can "attend" this intercultural, international, inter-aesthetical (!) poetry event. With a line-up including Quincy Troupe, Liz Bradfield, Li-Young Lee, Valzhyna Mort, Frank X Walker, you don't have to wonder what to do next Thursday, Friday, Saturday evenings.
Below is your schedule of readings. Here also is the Asheville WordFest promo video produced by Kurt Mann at American Green. http://vimeo.com/4296487
SCHEDULE
7 pm Thursday April 30 at Jubilee! 46 Wall St.
Lee Ann Brown, Patrick Rosal, doris davenport, Ross Gay
10 and 11 pm departing from Jubilee!
LaZoom Poetry Bus Tour presented by Catalyst Productions
4 pm Friday May 1 at Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center:
Caroline Mercurio, Holly Iglesias, David Hopes
7 pm Friday May 1 at Jubilee!
Elizabeth Bradfield, Gary Copeland Lilley, Quincy Troupe
10 pm Friday May 1 at Bobo Gallery at 22 Lexington Ave
Thomas Rain Crowe & the Boatrockers w/ Coleman Barks followed by Wordfest Wide Open Mic. . .
Saturday Morning 10 a.m. May 2 Bookworks 428 1/2 Haywood Road
West Asheville 828.255.8444
Poetry and Citizens Journalism w/ Laura Hope-Gill and Wally Bowen
2 pm Saturday May 2 at Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center at 56 Broadway
Keith Flynn, Pat Riviere-Seel, Ekiwah Adler Belendez
7 pm Saturday May 2 at Jubilee!
Valzhyna Mort, Frank X Walker, Li-Young Lee
10 pm Saturday May 2 Hookah Joe’s at 38b North French Broad
Poetix Lounge featuring The Poetix Vanguard w/ an open set
Sunday Morning May 3 10 a.m. Bookworks 428 1/2 Haywood Road
West Asheville 828.255.8444
Writing the Imaginative Storm Workshop with James Nave
3 pm Sunday May 3 at Malaprops Bookstore/Café at 55 Haywood St.
Debora Kinsland Foerst, Landon Godfrey, Paul Allen followed by Closing Reception
