True Home Open Mic
Join us every Thursday from 6:30pm – 8:30pm for music, poetry, comedy and stories performed by our favorite local artists! Feel free to bring your own food/drinks or anything you’d like to share!
Sign up begins at 6pm, show begins at 6:30pm. Each performer will have twelve minutes, and the show is always livestreamed on our Facebook account.
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 and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from Mary Arnold: a writer of haiku, haibun and senryu. She is particularly drawn to the openness of these forms of poetry, the breathing room they offer to the reader. In addition to being a poet, Mary works as an administrator for a Head Start program in Asheville. She is a novice, but enthusiastic player of the ukulele and enjoys living in beautiful western North Carolina with Beckett, her husband, and Trixie, their canine companion. One of her poems is currently under consideration for a 2024 Touchstone Award.
(Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet.)
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 Luke Hankins: the author of several poetry collections, a collection of essays, and a volume of translations, and is the editor or co-editor of several anthologies. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, EuropeNow, Image, New England Review, Pleiades, Poetry International, 32 Poems, Verse, World Literature Today, and The Writer’s Chronicle, as well as on the American Public Media radio program “On Being”. He is the founder and editor of Orison Books, a non-profit literary press focused on the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives, and is the director of UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program.
(Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet.)
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.)
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 Michael Hettich, who’s most recent book of poetry, The Halo of Bees: New and Selected Poems, 1990-2022 won the 2024 Brockman-Campbell Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in many journals and anthologies, and he has published more than a dozen books of poetry across four decades. His other honors include several Individual Artist Fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, The Tampa Review Prize in Poetry, the David Martinson/Meadowhawk Prize, a Florida Book Award, the Lena M. Shull Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society, and the inaugural Hudson-Fowler Prize from Slant magazine at the University of Central Arkansas. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Miami and taught for many years at Miami Dade College where he was awarded an Endowed Teaching Chair. A new book, And the Poet Said… was published in 2024.
(Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet.)
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 during the open mic portion of the evening, and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from Scott Owens: author of 22 collections of poetry, most recently eventually, a collection of haiku illustrated by Missy Cleveland, and An Augury of Birds, with photos by Clayton Joe Young. Lenard Moore, past president of the Haiku Society of America, says “eventually will whisper like wind at our ears until we take it with us.” Dave Russo, founding member of The Haiku Federation, notes that the book “refreshes our sense of the extraordinary in the ordinary.” Owens is recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Next Generation/Indie Lit Awards, the NC Writers Network, the NC Poetry Society, and the Poetry Society of SC. His poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac eight times, and his articles about writing poetry have been used in Poet’s Market four times. He has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and to be NC Poet Laureate. Owens holds degrees from Ohio University, UNC Charlotte, and UNC Greensboro. He is Professor of Poetry at Lenoir Rhyne University, and former editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review and Southern Poetry Review. He owns and operates Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse and Gallery and coordinates Poetry Hickory in Hickory, NC.
[Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet!]
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 during the open mic portion of our evening, then occasionally a local poet will close out our night with a featured reading!
[Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet!]
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 E. Poston, author of three poetry collections, including Postmodern Bourgeois Poetaster Blues, which won the North Carolina Writers’ Network’s Randall Jarrell Chapbook Competition. His poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in Broad River Review, Pedestal, Cider Press Review, Pembroke, and NC Literary Review, among others. A former Kakalak editor, he has a new poetry collection, Letting Go, forthcoming from Fernwood Press in fall 2025.
(Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet.)
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 Tim Peeler: a retired educator from Western North Carolina who has written twenty-two books of poetry, short stories, and regional history. He has twice been a finalist for the Casey Award for baseball book of the year, and five of his books are housed in the library at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Most recently he has collaborated with the Appalachian photographer Clayton Young on books that combine verse narratives and rural images.
(Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet.)
True Home Open Mic
Join us every Thursday from 6:30pm – 8:30pm for music, poetry, comedy and stories performed by our favorite local artists! Feel free to bring your own food/drinks or anything you’d like to share!
Sign up begins at 6pm, show begins at 6:30pm. Each performer will have twelve minutes, and the show is always livestreamed on our Facebook account.