Lovely evening for a walk through downtown #avl
Lovely evening for a walk through downtown #avl
Category: Asheville
Another #avl mural. Remember what was there before the new mural?
Rainy morning on the streets of #AVL
An #AVL mural on Lexington.
#avleat For a meal under $5 try Creperie Bouchon’s Soupe du jour … chipotle, chicken, vegetable & apple.
On the bus.
Orange bicycle at Storm.
Veterans for peace at Vance monument.
The art of signmaking.
Hitting Vanuatu for a snack.
Some days I wish I was Episcopalian… for the simple pleasure of visiting such a beautiful space.
What are these strange trees with no leaves growing in Asheville?
When is the next poetry at the Pulp?
One day all your strange parts will be a monument.
There’s a thick haze over the city this morning.
Izzy’s West on a Sunday afternoon.
A view from tonight’s private salon.
Downtown #AVL before the city awakes to the bustle of commerce.
This thing of beauty I see in the morning fog.
Last night at the Kava Bar
Hop Icecream & Sirius.B
Poetry writing workshop classes begin this week at Montford Books & More
Classes will meet in the lovely sun room on the second floor of the bookstore.
Bring poems you are currently working on or poems you would like to have published in the workshop’s poetry book (to be published at the end of class).
This poetry writing workshop is open to students of all writing levels from high school students on up. Not only will your poems be workshopped, but will be prepared for publication in the workshop’s poetry book anthology. If you don’t feel like your poetry is ready for publication, there will be writing exercises and to help generate new content and editorial assistance in crafting them into the poems that best represent you, the poet.
Classes meet Wednesday afternoons (May 25, June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29) 3 – 5 p.m. at Montford Books & More, 31 Montford Ave., Asheville, NC 28801.
Matthew Mulder has published poetry and prose in national and international journals and magazines including Crab Creek Review, H_NGM_N, The Indie, ISM Quarterly, Southern Cross Review and others. He teaches poetry writing classes at Asheville bookstores and fine arts centers and is presently translating selected works of German poet Rolf Dieter Brinkmann. He is the author of LATE NIGHT WRITING (2004) and editor of TOMORROW WE SWEAT POETRY (2009) and A BODY TURNING (2010). His new poems are anthologized in ROOFTOP POETS (2010).
Community garden with the neighbors
Spent much of the weekend gardening with friends and neighbors. On a quick trip downtown, I met a guy this weekend who said he thinks most Americans have lost their connection to the earth and agrarian principles. In some respects, I think he is correct. Within the mass media, consumeristic culture it is difficult to avoid the desire of immediate gratification, to change pace, and to wait 90 to 100 days to harvest the vegetables you plant. But it is rewarding to share in the labor and bounty of a harvest.
