Katrina Anniversary: Poetry & Photography to recognize the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
08/28/2010 7:00 pm
08/28/2010 8:30 pm
Etc/GMT-5
Sat 8/28 7pm-8:30pm
Recognizing the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with Poetry & Photography
Poet Katie Bowler with guest poets Ellen Bush and Michael McFee and photographer Donn Young
Emceed by Ross White of Bull City Press
Recognizing the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with Poetry & Photography
Poet Katie Bowler with guest poets Ellen Bush and Michael McFee and photographer Donn Young
Emceed by Ross White of Bull City Press
Flyleaf Books and Bull City Press join together to recognize and honor the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a reading by Bull City Press poets, emceed by Bull City executive director Ross White. Bull City Press recently published State Street, Katie Bowler's long poem about post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. The book chronicles Bowler's journey with photographer Donn Young and an NBC "Nightly News" crew to salvage what could be saved from a 35-year collection of historic New Orleans photography. Subsequently, Bowler and Young collaborated with the Louisiana State Archives to produce the largest and most well-attended exhibit in the history of the archives - a collection of the work of more than 100 artists telling the story of the rebuilding of New Orleans through multidisciplinary work including music, theater, sculpture, fine art, photography and more. Bowler will show selected artwork from the "40 Days and 40 Nights Collection."
Afterwards, fellow poets and Bull City authors Ellen Bush and Michael McFee will read from
their work.
Bull City Press is a Durham-based small press that publishes a chapbook series and a small quarterly magazine, Inch. The press will host its first writing competition this year, accepting first book of poetry manuscripts between April 1 and August 1.
Katie Bowler is the author of State Street (Bull City Press, 2009). Bowler is assistant dean for communications at UNC School of Law. She has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in The Carolina Quarterly, Louisiana Literature, The Louisiana Review, The Times-Picayune, Southern Neighbor, and
other publications. She is the editor of Carolina Law.
Ellen Bush is the author of Licorice (Bull City Press, 2006) and is director of electronic marketing for UNC Press. Ellen earned her MFA in creative writing from Cornell University and her BA in English from UNC Chapel Hill.
Michael McFee is the director of the creative writing program in the UNC Department of English and Comparative Literature. He has published nine collections of poetry, most recently The Smallest Talk (Bull City Press, 2007), Shinemaster (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006), and a collection of essays, The Napkin Manuscripts (University of Tennessee Press, 2006).
Ross White is the executive director of Bull City Press (www.bullcitypress.com) and the editor of Inch, a magazine of short poetry and microfiction. His poems have appeared in New England Review, Poetry
Daily, The Collagist, Carolina Quarterly, and others. He lives in Durham with his wife and cats, and works in the School of Education and teaches poetry writing at UNC.
Location:
- Street:
- Flyleaf Books (Add'l parking next door and across the street in the UNC lots after 5pm and all day weekends)
- Additional:
- 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
- City:
- Chapel Hill ,
- Province:
- North Carolina
- Postal Code:
- 27514
- Country:
- United States
