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Hub City kicks off
the fall reading series with North Carolina
poet Barbara Presnell, whose collection, Piece
Work, won the 2006 Cleveland
State University
Poetry Center's
First Book Prize, and was published by CSU in 2007. Barbara will read from her
work in the The Showroom at Hub-Bub, Monday September 17, at 7:30 pm. The event
is free and open to the public.
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Barbara
has also published three chapbooks: Snake
Dreams, which won the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Award from the NC Poetry
Society; Unravelings, which won the
Longleaf Press Award and the Oscar Arnold Young Award from the NC Poetry
Council; and Los Hijos, set in
Galeana, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Her poems appear in The Southern Review, Cimarron Review, Laurel Review, the North Carolina Literary Review, Tar
River Poetry, and other journals, and in the anthologies, Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia
(U of Kentucky) and Claiming the Spirit
Within: A Sourcebook of Women's Poetry (Beacon). She's a native of Asheboro, NC,
holds the MFA in Creative Writing from UNC-Greensboro, and teaches writing at
UNC-Charlotte.
Other readings & events this fall from the Hub City
Writers Project:
Oct. 1 - George Singleton, book launch for new novel, Workshirts
for Madmen
Oct. 22 - Phillip Belcher, chapbook launch, The Flies and
Their Lovely Names
Alex
Richardson, book launch, Porch Night on Walnut Street
Nov. 5 - Poet Keith Flynn, reading
Nov. 19 - John Lane,
book launch for new memoir, Circling Home
Dec. 3 - Ashley Warlick, reading
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