CCWA EVENTS (details below):
1) *NEW* David Blair poetry reading, Apr. 3
2) *NEW* North Carolina Music Festival, Apr. 12
3) 2nd Annual Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival, Apr. 23-25; North Carolina Writers Network Spring Conference, Apr. 26
4) *NEW* Kelly Cherry and Leigh Anne Couch poetry reading, Apr. 23


OTHER UNCG AND COMMUNITY EVENTS (details below):
5) Design, Art, and Technology Symposium, Mar. 27-29
6) MFA Creative Writing Thesis Reading, Mar. 28
7) *NEW* Dean Young poetry reading, Apr. 10
8) *NEW* Alan Shapiro poetry reading, Apr. 17

For more details on CCWA news and events, visit the center's website:

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EVENT DETAILS:

1) The UNCG Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, the MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro, and The Greensboro Review will host a poetry reading by UNCG alum David Blair on Thursday, April 3rd at 5:00 pm in the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue. It is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing. A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, David Blair's collection Ascension Days was the winner of the 2007 Del Sol Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in numerous journals including Boston Review, The Greensboro Review, Harvard Review, and Ploughshares and have been featured in the anthologies Zoland Poetry and The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. David Blair is an associate professor at The New England Institute of Art in Brookline, Massachusetts. For more information, contact Terry Kennedy (tlkenned (AT) uncg.edu).

2) The North Carolina Music Festival: A Celebration of NC Vocal Traditions will be held from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday, April 12, at the UNCG School of Music. The event will focus on performing, discussing, participating and appreciating popular vocal styles native to North Carolina. The festival features workshops, panel discussions and performances, and concludes with a concert at 7:30 p.m. featuring Sister Lena Mae Perry, Alice Gerrard, Laurelyn Dossett and Sheila Kay Adams. All events are free and open to the public except the concert. Concert tickets are available through the UNCG Box Office. The festival is co-sponsored by the School of Music and the UNCG Center for Creative Writing in the Arts. More information is available at NC Music Fest.

3) 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@uncg.edu) or Mark Smith-Soto (mismiths (AT) uncg.edu). More information also is currently online at the UNCG MFA program website, at MFA Greensboro.

4) The Greensboro Review in conjunction with the UNCG Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, the UNCG Alumni Association and Waccamaw will host a poetry reading by Kelly Cherry and Leigh Anne Couch on Wednesday, April 23rd at 7:00 pm in the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue. A part of the 2nd Annual Spring Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival, the event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing. A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, Kelly Cherry is the author of seventeen books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction (criticism, memoir, and essay), including the poetry collections God's Loud Hand, Death and Transfiguration, and Rising Venus. Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she lives with her husband on a small farm in Virginia. A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, Leigh Anne Couch lives in Tennessee with her husband, Kevin Wilson, and is the managing editor of the Sewanee Review. She is the author of the poetry collections Houses Fly Away and Green and Helpless. Her poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah, 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, The Carolina Quarterly, and other journals. She has held residency fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. For more information about this event, contact Terry Kennedy (tlkenned (AT) uncg.edu).

5) The 2008 Design, Art, and Technology Symposium will be held at UNCG March 27-29. This year's DATS symposium brings guest speakers and panelists to UNCG from around the country; of special interest to the UNCG writing community are keynote speakers Graffiti Research Lab, who will be doing a public projection project Thursday evening, and a panel on interactive text on Friday, featuring Graffiti Research Lab (graffitiresearchlab.com), Seth Ellis from the UNCG Art Department (sethsellis.com), and Christopher Baker from the University of Minnesota (christopherbaker.net). Other panels, events, and student exhibitions will take place in the UNCG Elliot Center and the Gatewood Studio Arts Building.  Visit the symposium website at dats.uncg.edu for more details.

6) Graduating students in UNCG's MFA program in Creative Writing will be giving their thesis readings in February and March. The readings are held at St. Mary's House (930 Walker Ave.) and are free and open to the public. All readings begin at 8:00pm. The final reading is scheduled for Friday, March 28th. For more information, see the MFA program website at www.mfagreensboro.org.

7) The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro, The Greensboro Review, and Spring Garden Press will host a poetry reading by Dean Young on Thursday, April 10th  at 8:00 pm in the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue. It is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing. Dean Young is the author of Skid, First Course in Turbulence, Strike Anywhere, Beloved Infidel, Design with X, Elegy on Toy Piano, and embroyoyo. Two books are forthcoming: Primitive Mentor, and The Art of Recklessness, a book of prose. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dean Young teaches at The Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and in the Warren Wilson Low Residency Program.

8) The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro, The Greensboro Review, and Spring Garden Press will host a poetry reading by Alan Shapiro on Thursday, April 17th at 8:00 pm in the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue. It is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing. Alan Shapiro is the author of nine acclaimed books of poetry. He is a former recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Los Angeles Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was recently elected as a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Alan Shapiro is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.