‘Black Fire—This Time: Volume 1’ Is a Powerful Anthology of Black Writers
In the anthology, which features several Triangle writers, poetry is the main entrée. It’s a fitting coda for National Poetry Month.
Cortland Gilliam Named New Poet Laureate of Chapel Hill
Gilliam will serve in the role from 2023 to 2024 and will be Chapel Hill’s second-ever poet laureate.
New Piedmont Laureate Dasan Ahanu Ushers In a New Literary Era
Ahanu was appointed as the 15th Piedmont Laureate, the second Black poet named to the post.
Liza Wolff-Francis Begins Tenure as 2023-2024 Carrboro Poetry Laureate
Dispatches from the West End Poetry Festival.
Raleigh Poet Jayme Ringleb’s Elegant Debut Collection Explores Queer Southern Love and Loss
“This might be a bit spoiler-y, but the book doesn’t end with narrative resolution. It’s more about the speaker being able to see himself as possible and the possibility of his love as a thing that exists.”
The Poetry Fox Speaks: Chris Vitiello on Costumes, Street Poetry, and Shared Humanity
Since before he knew what a typewriter was, Chris Vitiello had a way with words.
North Carolina Student Competes in the Poetry Out Loud National Championship
Gabriella Burwell, a junior at Knightdale High School, opted to recite “Black Matters” by Keith S. Wilson and “The Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall, as well as a poem by Booker T. Washington.
More Poetry Coverage
Revisiting Jaki Shelton Green’s Song of Sorrow
First published in 2017, Jaki Shelton Green’s “I Want to Undie You” was recently translated by Italian publisher Lebeg Edizioni.
Durham May Soon Have a Poet Laureate
The city council wants to create the new position to champion the art form throughout the Bull City.
15 Minutes: Meziah Smith, 16-Year-Old Poet
Next month, Meziah Smith will represent North Carolina’s Knightdale High School of Collaborative Design in the upcoming Poetry Out Loud competition. Competitors read poetry aloud, competing for a $20,000 prize and the title of National Champion.
Talking with Poet Hannah VanderHart about Her Illuminating Debut Collection, ‘What Pecan Light’
“Going deeper into the question of the complicity of whiteness has been both the labor and the birth of this collection,” says VanderHart.
The Commons Crit: Johnny Lee Chapman III’s “Southern (Dis)Comfort” Is Pure Edutainment
This work is not simply a list of names, dates, places, and obscure facts about North Carolina: It is an embodied telling that offers incisive critique.
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