Weave & Spin Performance Series and Open Mic

Please join us Wednesday, September 17th at Eno House in Hillsborough, NC for “Weave & Spin,” a performance and open mic series curated and hosted by poet Morrow Dowdle, focused on voices that have waited too long to be heard. Performance begins at 7:00 p.m., followed by an open mic. Free admission. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for open mic sign-up. Must be 18 and older to enter and perform.

OUR FEATURED PERFORMERS FOR SEPTEMBER ARE MARIA ROUPHAIL & GIDEON YOUNG!

Maria Rouphail, PhD, is Senior Lecturer Emerita from North Carolina State University, where she taught courses in World Literature and where she also served as an academic adviser to the English major. Poetry editor at The Main Street Rag, she has published four poetry collections: Apertures, Second Skin, and All the Way to China, and most recently, through Redhawk Publications, This small house, this big sky. Her third collection, All the Way to China, was a 2020 finalist in both the University of Wisconsin Brittingham Poetry and the Blue Light Press competitions. A six-time Pushcart nominee, and currently serving as the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for Central North Carolina in 2024-25, Rouphail lives in Raleigh.

Gideon Young is a member of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective, the Carrboro Poets Council, and the Orange County Arts Commission advisory board. A Fellow for A+ Schools of North Carolina, and a stay-at-home dad, his debut haiku collection “my hands full of light” was published by Backbone Press (2021). Find new poems in Eucalypt, Modern Haiku, North Carolina Literary Review, and selected for the 2025 National Baseball Poetry Festival. A former Title 1 elementary school teacher, Gideon is the North Carolina Poetry Society’s 2025 & 2026 Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for the Eastern North Carolina Region. Discover more at www.gideonyoung.com.