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Since 1932 the North Carolina Poetry Society has existed as an all-volunteer organization especially for poets and friends of poetry.

For face-to-face meetings and workshops

The NCPS Board is committed to providing safe spaces for meeting together and to protecting the vulnerable. We strongly recommend indoor masking for all, regardless of vaccination status. If you do not wear a mask, please act responsibly and compassionately. Some attendees may be at high risk. Please do not attend in person events if you have had fever, COVID symptoms, or a positive test within the past 5 days.

10/30/2026

The North Carolina Poetry Society is delighted to welcome you to a generative poetry workshop hosted by our Vice President of Programming, Andre Tew: Poetry for Poets Who Listen to a Crazy Amount of Music.

When: Saturday November 7th, 12:30 PM
Where: Chapel Hill Public Library, Meeting Room C
Who: The workshop is free and open to the public.
What to bring: Writing tools
No experience required; all are welcome to this generative workshop. We hope to see you there.

Please contact Andre Tew with questions: [email protected]

10/08/2026

To our K-12 Poetry-Loving Educators, check out a remarkable opportunity for YOU!!!

For more info, go to Membership | North Carolina Poetry Society https://share.google/LIqrvgOYihiCvTgIM

09/30/2026

Today, September 30, is the last day to submit to our Poetry in Plain Sight Contest! Judges will pick 48 poems from those submitted to be featured--four per month--on posters in public spaces throughout North Carolina.

Don't miss this wonderful NCPS opportunity!!!

https://www.ncpoetrysociety.org/pips/

09/04/2026

Greetings to aspiring and/or sojournering poets! The North Carolina Poetry Society Gilbert Chappel Distinguished Poet Series is now open and ready to receive your applications. The final deadline is November 15, 2026. Please see below for more information and the GCDPS link for submission:

This mentoring program links established poets in three regions of North Carolina with emerging poets, enabling them to develop and perfect their lyric craft. Students in middle school, high school, and college, and adults not in school may apply to work with a Distinguished Poet during the winter months. Our Distinguished Poets this year are: Regina Yvette Carter Garcia in the eastern region, Joe Mills in the central region, and Clint Bowman in the western region. In spring of each year, the resulting poems are presented at group and individual readings at venues across the state. An anthology of these poems entitled Witness: Appalachia to Hatteras is published by the North Carolina Poetry Society later in the year. To read the brochure or apply for the program, click on the link below:

https://www.ncpoetrysociety.org/gcdps/

09/02/2026

Check out these fabulous poets coming soon at McIntyre's Books !!! We'd love to see your "face in the place!"

Bring a poem and a friend as celebrate Poets and Poetry in North Carolina!

08/25/2026

The August/ September 2026 Pine Whispers is Here!!! North Carolina Poetry Society

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Address

404 Evans St
Greenville, NC
27858

Website

https://www.ncpoetrysociety.org/

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