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Silent Fields: A Virtual Ecopoetry Reading in Celebration of Earth Day

Silent Fields: A Virtual Ecopoetry Reading in Celebration of Earth Day
Thursday, April 22, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Amber Flora Thomas, Matthew Wimberley, Gideon Young, Crystal Simone Smith

Four poets from North Carolina's majestic Blue Ridge Mountains to its scenic coastal waters will celebrate Earth Day with readings of haiku and nature poems.

AMBER FLORA THOMAS is the author of Eye of Water: Poems which was selected by Harryette Mullen as the winner of the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her other books include, The Rabbits Could Sing: Poems (University of Alaska Press, 2012) and Red Channel in the Rupture: Poems (Red Hen Press, 2018).

MATTHEW WIMBERLEY grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He is the author of All the Great Territories (South Illinois University Press, 2020). A Localist poet, his chapbook Snake Mountain Almanac was selected by Eduardo C. Corral as the winner of the 2014 Rane Arroyo Chapbook Contest from Seven Kitchens Press.

GIDEON YOUNG is the author of the haiku collection my hands full of light (Backbone Press, 2021). He is a member of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective, a Fellow for A+ Schools of North Carolina, and a stay-at-home dad.

CRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH is a prize-winning poet and author of two poetry chapbooks, Routes Home (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and Running Music (Longleaf Press, 2014). She is also the author of Wildflowers: Haiku, Senryu, and Haibun, 2016 and a forthcoming collection of poems, Down to Earth (Longleaf Press, 2021). Her co-authored book, One Window's Light: A Collection of Haiku (Unicorn Press, 2017) won the Haiku Society of America Merit Award for Best Anthology.

Contact: Sarah Rogers