While some were viewing the presidential inauguration, Step Afrika! and spoken word poet Kyla Lacey were on their way to the mountains of North Carolina to perform in Western Carolina’s Bardo Arts Center. Step Afrika! opened with a cheerful yet aggressive step seeking audience interaction right off the bat. The audience was happy to give a […]
Local poet and novelist Darnell Arnoult
Poet and novelist Darnell Arnoult will be joining us at the Spring Literary Festival on April 6, at 4 p.m. in the UC Theater and she will be reading from her collection of poems titled What Travels With Us and her fiction novel Sufficient Grace. Arnoult was born and raised in Henry County, Virginia, but […]
Time for poetry and prose… and beautiful words
Each year, for the past 14 years, Western Carolina University has held an annual Spring Literary Festival to reflect WCU’s commitment to providing the best humanities education possible for its students and to bring the best of the arts to the heart of the WNC Mountains. The Festival is a 4-day long event where both established […]
Tennessee author Denton Loving
Emerging poet Denton Loving will be reading from his first collection of poems titled Crimes Against Birds on Tuesday, April 5, at 12 p.m. in the UC Theater. The editor of Seeking Its Own Level: an anthology of writings about water, Loving works at Lincoln Memorial University where he co-directs the annual Mountain Heritage Literary Festival and serves […]