Weave & Spin Performance Series and Open Mic

Please join us Wednesday, November 19th 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 NOVEMBER ARE POETS HAN VANDERHART & JAMEELA DALLIS!

Han VanderHart is a queer writer living in Durham, NC. They are the author of Larks (OUP, 2025), winner of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, the chapbook Hawk & Moon (Bottlecap Press, 2025), and What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021), and have essays and poetry published in Poetry Daily, The Boston Globe, Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Northwest, Poet Lore, AGNI, and elsewhere. Han hosts Of Poetry Podcast and, alongside Amorak Huey, co-edits the poetry press River River Books.

Jameela F. Dallis lives in Durham, NC. Her publications include poems, interviews, arts journalism, and literary scholarship in Feminist Studies, Honey Literary, The Fight and the Fiddle, Our State, Walter, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison, and elsewhere. She's inspired by memory and desire, the thrill of wandering new cities, and the wonder of everyday encounters. Her work explores texture, taste, sound, sensation, and the richness of visual art. She curated Material Encounters (Peel Gallery, Carrboro, March 2024), juried Scaffold (Artspace, Raleigh, April 2023), and has served on regional curatorial and fellowship committees. She's taught dozens of university courses and facilitated creative workshops for more than a decade. Originally from Chattanooga, TN, Jameela received her B.A. in English from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and holds both an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from UNC-Chapel Hill. Read more about her work at jameeladallis.com.