Hey all! Help us start off an exciting new year of programming by attending The Virgilio Virtual Haiku Open mic!
This month, join poet and Camden advocate Sandra Turner-Barnes and national award winner Lenard Moore. And of course, we also celebrate all your own haiku/senryu/tanka and short form poetry as well!
THE VIRGILIO IS A FREE EVENT, BUT DONATIONS ARE WELCOME!
5 MINS PER READER.
PLEASE REGISTER TO READ AND TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK FOR THE EVENT.
Our January features include:
Sandra Turner-Barnes is the winner of the 1995 Ebony Magazine International Literary Award for short fiction for her story, “Burnt Bacon” as well as the 2010 publication of her poetic and historic children’s book, “Beyond the Back of the Bus,” a tribute to Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement. Sandra appears in countless anthologies, and her most recent book of poetry, “But, Mostly Love,” was nominated for the National Book Award in 2011.
Lenard D. Moore is a poet, anthologist, founder and executive director of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective, and U.S. Army veteran. He was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina and is author of The Open Eye (North Carolina Haiku Society Press, 1985; Mountains & Rivers Press, 2015), and The Geography of Jazz (Mountains & Rivers Press, 2018; Blair Publishers, 2020), among other books. His haiku chapbook, Gathering at the Crossroads (Red Moon Press, 2003), is a collaboration with photographer and Black Arts Movement poet Eugene B. Redmond. He is former president of Haiku Society of America (2008 and 2009) and longtime executive chairman of the North Carolina Haiku Society