Living Poetry

03/28/2018

We’re just a few days from ! Are you doing the challenge?

02/27/2018

Don’t forget! This Thursday 6p at Karma Boutique & Coffee Bar: open mic!

02/13/2018

Save the date! Poetry on Your Plate in is 4/23!

02/05/2018

It's that time of year again: time for Vision & Voice at The Joyful Jewel! Visit The Joyful Jewel and find a piece of art, jewelry, or other crafty creation to inspire your poem. Then, send in your poem before 3/25! A special event takes place on Saturday, April 28th at JJ where you can read your work alongside the artist whose work inspired you!

Sat, Apr 28, 2018, 3:00 PM: NOTE: The deadline for submissions is March 25th!! The reading takes place on April 28th.The Joyful Jewel (http://www.joyfuljewel.com/) invites writers of all ages and leve

02/03/2018

Submit your , photography, paintings, essays, and more to Mused Literary Review!

Submission Guidelines Mused - the BellaOnline Literary Review is a literary magazine which features prose, poetry and other artistic works aimed towards a women's market.

02/01/2018

Local poet Pam Baggett hosts a workshop in this month: Skin! Poetry Workshop on Saturday, February 24th, 1-4 p.m. Freckles, birthmarks, scars, wrinkles, piercings, and tattoos; we’ll explore skin as the map of our personal experiences. More importantly, we’ll consider what our skin has earned or cost us and how racism affects us personally and as a society. The workshop is free and open to the public; writers working at all levels and in other genres are welcome. Please register at 919-245-2536. Skin! is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.

01/29/2018

Like ? Pick an image and write a poem. Submit before 3/15!

Photographic Offerings for Writers Click on the image to see the full photo and the identifying mark will be in the lower left corner of the screen Writer Submission Process — Select a photograp…

01/24/2018

Poet Aruna Gurumurthy has three readings around the Triangle in the coming weeks:
Sunday 1/28, 2p at McIntyre's Books in Fearrington Village,
Sunday, 2/18, 1p at The Joyful Jewel in
Sunday 2/18, 4p at Aversboro Coffee in .

01/17/2018

The North Carolina Poetry Society Adult Contests deadline has been extended! Submissions are now due by midnight on February 1, so if you were thinking of becoming a member, or if you recently let your membership expire, now would be a great time to sign up again. That's because submissions to ten of the eleven contests are free for current members. They are reasonably priced for non-members. For more info, visit the Adult Contests page: http://www.ncpoetrysociety.org/adultcontests/.

Send in your poems to our Adult Contests - check out the contest themes on the website (above). You can win or place and be invited to read your work at our gala Awards Day meeting in May, our most-attended event of the year. The top cash prize for Poet Laureate Award is shown on our website, as are the cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for other contests.

The following information is for the 2018 NCPS Contests. Submissions will be accepted beginning November 1, 2017, and end January 19, 2018.

01/13/2018

North Carolina Poetry Society winter meeting is starting!

01/11/2018

If you haven't heard the sad news, Brian Allen Artisan and Printer is closing shop. Details about items for sale this weekend:

Days: Saturday, January 13, Sunday, January 14
Time: 11am-5pm both days
Place: 812 N Mangum St, unit B, Durham, NC 27701; between Geer and Corporation Streets; on-street parking, or between the 2 buildings with “For Sale” signs. Do NOT park on the gravel lot. They get cranky about outsiders.
Questions: [email protected] 919-609-8992

**Cash or checks only, please**

There will be:
- paper, 100% cotton, fine art, commercial
- envelopes of various sizes
- calligraphy supplies
- books about art, calligraphy, design, type, type design, and general subjects. Prices from $5 to $500
- some journals, including back issues of Letter Arts Review back to the 1980s, Bookways; some issues of Eye magazine and other typographic magazines
- some metal type, furniture, leading, type cabinets, and tools of the trade
- a bit of bookbinding materials, including MDF boards I used for weights on glue-drying covers
- type specimens: mostly of phototype and digital type, some printed from metal type
- posters/broadsides I’ve collected over many years
- $5 frames
- chairs and stools
- odds and ends