Weave & Spin Performance Series and Open Mic

“Weave & Spin” is a performance and open mic series focusing on BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and everyone else who has waited too long to be heard. Join Hillsborough poet Morrow Dowdle on the third Wednesday of every month from 7-9 p.m at the Eno Arts Mill Gallery. Each event will begin with a featured performer followed by an open mic. Free admission; refreshments will be for sale. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for open mic sign-up. Must be 18 and older to enter and perform.

OUR FEATURED PERFORMER FOR MAY 21st IS EMILIA PHILLIPS!

Emilia Phillips (they/them) is a poet, nonfiction writer, and book reviewer. They are the author of five poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (2024) and Embouchure (2021), and four chapbooks. Winner of a 2019 Pushcart Prize, 2015 StoryQuarterly Nonfiction Prize, and the 2012 The Journal Poetry Prize, Phillips’s poems, lyric essays, and book reviews appear widely in literary publications including The Adroit Journal, Agni, American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New York Times, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. They are an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English; MFA in Writing Program; and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at UNC Greensboro, where they regularly teach MFA- and undergraduate-level poetry workshops, Queer Poetry & Poetics, and Women’s Health & Bodies.