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Please join us on Sunday, November 10, at 2:30 pm for a special poetry event: local poets Fred L. Joiner and Paul Jones in dialogue with each other: conversing, reading from their new books, and fielding questions from the audience. The dialogue will be followed by a book signing and Open Mic.
Fred L. Joiner, is a poet and curator based in Carrboro, NC. His debut poetry collection, Mirror in Our Music (Birds, LLC) is coming out this year. He served as the Poet Laureate of Carrboro from 2019-2022 and was a member of the Inaugural Cohort of Laureate fellows for the Academy of American Poets. He has published and presented his published nationally and internationally. As a curator, he has curated exhibits and public programming for The Ackland, The Phillips Collection, The Honfleur Gallery, The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Belfast Exposed (Northern Ireland) , Medina Galerie (Bamako, Mali), and others. Joiner is a Local Advisory Board member for The Ackland, the Orange County Arts Alliance, and Arch Development Corporation.
Here are some interesting facts about Paul Jones: A manuscript of his poems landed safely on the moon in February 2024. In 2021, he was admitted to the NC State Computer Science Hall of Fame. In 2024, his poem “Geode” was plagiarized multiple times by the notorious serial poetry offender, John Kucera. If you want to know more about any of this, you can ask Paul. His books are Something Wonderful (2021) and Something Necessary (2024), both from Redhawk Press. Recent poems have appeared in Hudson Review, Salvation South, Southern Poetry Review, New Verse Review, and in Best American Erotic Poems (1800-Present). His website is http://smalljones.com
The reading and conversation will last for about 45 minutes, followed by a short break to sign books, and then the Open Mic. (Please limit your reading to one poem, one page.)
Come early to socialize and sign up for the Open Mic. Hope to see you there!
