Flooded Poetry

Every Monday, Ivy Rozen, Senior Editor of The Black Mountain Press, will host a poetry-specific open mic from 6:30pm-9pm. Each poet will be able to share 2-3 poems, and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from David Hopes, a Professor Emeritus of English at UNCA who has participated in the literary, theatrical, and musical life of Asheville since 1983. His latest book of poetry, The Ones with Difficult Names, is available from Amazon and, probably, here tonight. His novel The Falls of the Wyona is a winner of Red Hen’s Quill Prize for queer fiction. His play, Washington Place, will be produced (for the 3rd time locally) at HART in Waynesville this October. Despite advanced age and decrepitude, he continues to write and paint at a ferocious pace.

(Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet.)