Joetry - A Big Success

A heartfelt thanks to everyone involved in Joetry yesterday at The Coffee Break.  We had standing room only, a slew of great performances, and a good time had by all. 

Special thanks to our performers, including Clement Mallory and Billy Jones, Dr. Linda Erday and her beautiful children who sang, Emmy and Corey, Verona Botsford and her husband Wyatt, Professor Eric Fink, Budd Wilkins.

Many thanks also to our own Blogsboro team member, Danny Bayer for setting up the sound equipment, which we couldn't have managed without.  Danny's also a great performer and hopefully will do a song or two at the next event.

Thanks also to Jerry at the Coffee Break for busting his butt while not feeling too well in handling all the orders.  I hope it went well for the Coffee Break, and hope Jerry got a little rest afterwards.  He was stellar.

We're all so delighted that Joetry went so well, and keep watching this space for future events, as well as video from the event.

For those who couldn't make the show, Joetry was a great success filled with spoken verse, music, prose and short stories. Hopefully we captured it on video and if so we'll put those videos online. It was only when I got back in my truck to return home that I discovered I'd left my kazoo laying on the seat.

But there's always next time. Stay tuned to Blogsboro.com to learn about our next event.

Mark Your Calendar for Joetry!

Blogsboro's maiden event, Joetry: An Open-Mic Event of Poetry, Prose, Song and Coffee is Sunday, January 27, beginning at 4:00 p.m. at The Coffee Break, 1820 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro.

We have an amazing lineup of talent and performers including:

Billy "The Blogging Poet" Jones
Clement Mallory
Harry Furness
Dr. Linda Erday
Professor Eric Fink
Budd Wilkins (and possibly his wife Tina if she gets up the nerve)
Patrick Murphy

and hopefully more!  If you want to perform, just show up and sign up and we'll put you on stage!

The event is free, donations for the performers will be accepted, and you'll just LOVE the tasty offerings at The Coffee Break - wonderful coffee drinks, smoothies, hot cocoa, delicious pastries and desserts, and a terrific atmosphere (nice people running the place, too).  It's going to be a great time, guaranteed.  Team Blogsboro hopes to see you there to kick off our series of events!

January 23, 2008

CCWA EVENTS (details below):
1) Save the dates: 2nd Annual Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival, Apr. 23-25, and North Carolina Writers Network Spring Conference, Apr. 26

OTHER UNCG AND COMMUNITY EVENTS
2) Stuart Dischell Poetry Reading, Jan. 24
3) Joetry - An Open Mic Event of Poetry, Prose, Song and Coffee, Jan. 27
4) Muse On Greensboro Bicentennial Poetry Contest, deadline Jan. 31

For more details on CCWA news and events.

EVENT DETAILS:

1) Save the dates for the Second Annual Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival on Wednesday, April 23rd, through Friday, April 25th, to be followed by the all-day North Carolina Writers Network Spring Conference on April 26th. The events, scheduled to take place in the UNCG Elliott Center, will include poetry and fiction readings, a book fair, panel discussions, and workshops. Stay tuned for more details as they become available, or contact Terry Kennedy tlkenned (AT) uncg.edu or Mark Smith-Soto mismiths (AT) uncg.edu More information also is currently online at the UNCG MFA program website.

2) Barnes & Noble at Friendly Center will host a poetry reading by Stuart Dischell on Thursday, January 24th at 7:00 pm. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing. Stuart Dischell is the author of four collections of poems and has received honors and awards from the National Poetry Series, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the North Carolina Arts Council, among other organizations. He teaches in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at UNC Greensboro. For more information, contact Becky Carignan at 336-854-4200.

3) Blogsboro.com presents Joetry - An Open Mic Event of Poetry, Prose, Song and Coffee on Sunday, January 27th, at 4:00 pm at The Coffee Break (1820 Spring Garden Street). If you are interested in reading or performing, or if you have any questions, contact Tina Wilkins at jazzzytina (AT) yahoo.com

4) Celebrate Greensboro's bicentennial by writing a poem inspired by the city's past, present, or future. Poets may submit up to two unpublished poems in one of four divisions: youth, student/young adult, adults, or seniors. In each division, a first-place winner will receive $150 and a second-place winner will receive $100. Applications are due January 31st and are available at Greensboro Public Library branches and online at PoetryGSO.org. For more information, call Suzanne Pell at 336-373-2811.

 

Come out to The Coffee Break, 1820 Spring Garden Street on January 27 at 4:00 p.m. and support our first Blogsboro.com event, Joetry! Contact Tina Wilkins if you'd like to perform.