PLEASE NOTE:
The new, temporary location of Weave & Spin will be Eno House at 903 Eno St in Hillsborough until the Eno Mill opens back up.
Weave & Spin is not your run-of-the-mill open mic. It’s a safe space for all humans 18+ to share tales of life: from joy to trauma, from hilarity to drama. If you are a poet, storyteller, or musician, bring your truth. Each month will showcase one featured artist followed by an open mic. We particularly invite BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and anyone else who has waited too long to be heard.
Every 3rd Wednesday, 6-7:30pm (Doors open at 5:40pm)
Free admission, cash bar
Must be 18 to enter and participate
JUNE 24th (on the 4th Wednesday this month!) FEATURED POETS:
Jason Gray, Tori Reynolds, and Celisa Steele
Jason Gray is the author of Radiation King, winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry, and Photographing Eden, winner of the 2008 Hollis Summers Prize (Ohio UP). He has also published two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead (Kent State UP, 2007) and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo (Dream Horse Press, 2003). His poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Poetry Ireland Review, and many other places. He has also reviewed poetry, nonfiction, and fiction for The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Shenandoah, The Journal, and elsewhere. His poems have been anthologized and reprinted on Verse Daily. Besides writing, he spends time taking pictures of things. He hosts the podcast Drunk as a Poet on Payday and teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Tori Reynolds is a poet who lives in Hillsborough, NC. She has an M.F.A. from Bennington Writer’s Seminars and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Duke University. Her poems have been published most recently in SWWIM, Painted Bride Quarterly, Main Street Rag, Cave Wall and The Greensboro Review, and have been finalists in the Nazim Hikmet and the North Carolina Literary Review’s James Applewhite Prize. She’s attended the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Frost Place Conference on Poetry and the Vermont Studio Center. She’s currently shopping her first manuscript of poems to presses and hopes to have a book published soon.
Celisa Steele’s poetry has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Prairie Schooner, Cave Wall, Raleigh Review, Comstock Review, Tar River Poetry, Poetry South, San Pedro River Review, and others and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2011, Emrys Press published her chapbook, How Language Is Lost. Celisa served as the poet laureate of Carrboro, North Carolina, from 2013 to 2016.
Learn more about the inspiration behind Weave & Spin here. For more information, please contact Morrow Dowdle at morrowdowdlepoetry@gmail.com.
