DeWayne Barton is a native of Asheville, N.C. who grew up in Washington, D.C. and is a Gulf War Veteran. He attended Norfolk State University from 1996-1999, majoring in Social Work. He is the author of a recent book of poetry, Urban Nightmare Silent Screams and has been involved in community improvement and youth development for over 15 years. He is both a co-founder and co-director of Asheville Green Opportunities, a job training program designed to prepare Asheville area youth and adults for “green-collar” careers. Both his sculpture art and his poetry reflect his commitment to environmental sustainability and social justice.
Gyorgyi Voros is the author of Unwavering. Conrad Aiken says of her poetry: “The music of Voros’s poetry is more than music. It’s the motion of life and lots of things in it thinking, changing one’s mind, forgetting and remembering.”
Voros is also the author of Notations of the Wild: Ecology in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, published by University of Iowa Press. She teaches poetry and creative writing at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg Virginia.
Landon Godfrey has just been awarded a North Carolina Arts Council 2011-2012 Artist Fellowship. Her book, Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled
Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown, which was published in 2011 was selected by David St. John for the Cider Press Review Book Award.(via an email newsletter)
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Tomorrow, Poetrio at Malaprop’s
POETRIO reading/booksigning featuring Tony Abbott, Scott Owens, Katherine Soniat.
Sunday, November 6, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café
55 Haywood Street
Asheville, NC 28801
www.malaprops.com
Smart phones cannot eat
Poet reads from Yodeling Fungus at Malaprop’s Poetrio.
Worthy Evans reads from Green Revolver at Malaprop’s Poetrio.
Poetrio at Malaprop’s. Featured poet reads from poetry chapbook, Little Mouse.

“The poet should speak to all men”
The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell (via nathanielstuart1)
NOTES:
1) nathanielstuart, June 7, 2011, (page no longer available, web site is still active, accessed April 27, 2024, https://www.tumblr.com/nathanielstuart)
Poem sketch
Limited edition – Rooftop Poets poetry book
In September 2010 an idea was born to hold a poetry reading under a full moon at the Roof Garden of the historic Battery Park Hotel. Three weeks after that September afternoon, sixty people attended an invite-only poetry reading, book-signing and jazz show on Friday, October 22, 2010. The event was publicized almost exclusively through Twitter, Facebook and word-of-mouth and featured Asheville, North Carolina poets Barbara Gravelle, myself (Matthew Mulder) and Brian Sneeden with special musical performance by Vendetta Creme and Aaron Price. And thus, Rooftop Poets was born in Asheville under a full moon.
Since the Roof Garden reading, the Rooftop Poets have been invited to read at various venues and interviewed for newspaper and television. Brian’s poem “The Temple” (included in Rooftop Poets poetry book) went on to be the Mountain Xpress’s first place winner in their 2011 poetry contest.
If you missed the memorable evening last October, there are still a few copies of the limited-edition, 64-page book. You may purchase copies at Malaprop’s.
Rooftop Poets is a limited-edition, 64-page book of poems featuring the work of three Asheville, North Carolina poets.
Barbara Gravelle, author of several poetry books including, Keepsake, Dancing the Naked Dance of Love, and her latest collection of poems, Poet on the Roof of the World.
Matthew Mulder, one of the original members of the Traveling Bonfires, his poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Small Press Review, The Indie, H_NGM_N, and other publications.
Brian Sneeden has produced, designed or written for more than a hundred theatrical performances. He is the current director and MC of Asheville Vaudeville.
Poem: There are only so many
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Poem: Azaleas blossom white
Poetrio – 3 poets at 3 PM – May 1, 2011
Poetrio – 3 poets at 3 PM – May 1, 2011
Poets Diana Pinckney, Barbara Gravelle and Matthew Mulder plan to read from their recently published books for Poetrio at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café May 1, 2011 at 3 p.m.
Diana Pinckney has published poetry and prose in such journals and magazines as Southern Poetry Review, Cream City Review, Tar River Poetry, Cave Wall, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Icarus International, Atlanta Review, Green Mountains Review, Main Street Rag, Kalliope, Iodine, Asheville Poetry Review, Calyx, RHINO, Charlotte Viewpoint… Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine.com, Creative Loafing and many others. Her chapbook, Fishing With Tall Women, won North Carolina’s 1996 Persephone Press Book Award and South Carolina’s Kinlock Rivers Memorial Chapbook Contest. Nightshade Press, Troy, Maine, published her second book of poems, White Linen, in 1998. Alchemy, the third collection was published by Main Street Rag Publishing Co. in 2004. The latest full-length book of poems concerns the many fascinations and mysteries of the sea, among other things. Green Daughters was released April 2011.
Barbara Gravelle, author of several poetry books including, Keepsake, Dancing the Naked Dance of Love, and her latest collection of poems, Poet on the Roof of the World. Barbara Gravelle began to publish poetry in the 1960s when she was in Detroit at Wayne State University. In 1970 she moved to Berkeley, California where her first book, Keepsake, was published by Two Windows Press. She worked with the San Francisco State NEA Poetry in the Schools program at Northern California schools. Concurrently she worked at Intersection Center for the Arts in North Beach directing the Women’ Reading Series and an experimental Feminist Writing Workshop. Dancing the Naked Dance of Love, her book of San Francisco poems was published during this time. In the mid 1980’s Barbara began to migrate to the island of Kythera in Southern Greece, while living there she wrote the poems for Poet on the Roof of the World.
Matthew Mulder has published poetry and prose in such journals and magazines as Crab Creek Review, H_NGM_N, The Indie, Rapid River Magazine, ISM Quarterly, Salamander, Wander, The Blotter, 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 Late Night Writing (2004) and editor of A Body Turning (2010) and Tomorrow We Sweat Poetry (2009). His new poems are anthologized in Rooftop Poets (2010).
Poem: The honey bee
Poem: The Storm Approaches
Poem: There’s A Place
Poem: Foggy Sunday Morning

If you’re participating in the 30 poems in 30 days writing challenge, it’s day eleven. How are you doing with the challenge? This poem sketch was written yesterday, but I was offline so here’s poem 10 of 30.
Poem: Never Look A Doughnut Dealer in the Eyes
Poem: Some days all you need
Sold out: Tomorrow We Sweat Poetry

Tomorrow We Sweat Poetry (paperback, 20 pgs, 8″x5″ $8 + s/h) is officially out of print.
Tomorrow We Sweat Poetry is the result of the workshop I directed called “Write and do not waste time” and features poems by Susan Ryonen Keene. A digital sample is available here. Each poetry writing workshop I direct invites students to contribute their best poems for publication in a poetry book. If you’re interested in an upcoming poetry writing workshop, please leave a comment or email me at coffeehousejunkie [at] gmail [dot] com.
Thank you all for your support!
Rooftop Poets literary salon

Many thanks to all who attended last night’s Rooftop Poets literary salon at the Roof Garden Ballroom of the Battery Park Hotel!
Poet’s on the Roof: A Literary Salon

Poet’s on the Roof: A Literary Salon
You are invited to a literary salon at the Roof Garden of the historic Battery Park Hotel. Whether you dabble in poetry or prose or you’re a published poet or writer or maybe you just love art and books; join the Rooftop Poets for a stimulating evening of literature, music and conversation.
Come prepared to participate in engaging dialogue about art, books, literature and life. Discussions will be lead by Barbara Gravelle, Matt Mulder and Brian Sneeden. Please bring work by someone you admire or something you’ve written to share at the salon.
Snacks and hors d’oeuvres will be provided, along with music by Mattick Frick and the Bloodroot Orkaestarr.
$10.00 admission includes all food and beverages.
Join us Friday, February 18, 8:00pm – 11:00pm at the historic Battery Park Hotel, 1 Battle Square, Asheville, NC (located north of the Grove Arcade building).
Rooftop Poets reading this Friday
Will the Rooftop Poets love poems? You’ll have to come and find out.
The Rooftop Poets perform at Accent on Books on Fri., Feb. 11, 6 PM. Barbara Gravelle, Matt Mulder and Brian Sneeden will be accompanied by special guest musician Mattick Frick.
This event is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.














