Poetry Hickory featuring Paul Jones and Debra Kaufman

Name: Poetry Hickory featuring Paul Jones and Debra Kaufman
Start: 2025-09-09T18:15:00-04:00
Location: 29 2nd St NW, Hickory, NC, United States, North Carolina 28601

Schedule

Tue, 09 Sep, 2025 at 06:15 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

29 2nd St NW, Hickory, NC, United States, North Carolina 28601 | Hickory, NC

September 9 will mark the beginning of Poetry Hickory's 19th consecutive year of monthly poetry readings in downtown Hickory. The reading, to be held at Taste Full Beans, will begin at 6:15 with featured, award-winning authors, Paul Jones and Debra Kaufman.
Former UNC professor and NC Poetry Society board member, Paul Jones of Carrboro, NC, is a winner of the NCWN Harperprints Chapbook Competition and author of Something Wonderful (2021) and Something Necessary (2024), both from Redhawk Publishing. He has also been inducted in the NC Computer Science Hall of Fame
Debra Kaufman has five full-length poetry collections, most recently God Shattered (Jacar) and Outwalking the Shadow (Redhawk). She has written many monologues and short plays, many of which have been performed, and five full-length plays, most recently Seeing Light, and she recently adapted Johnny Johnson, Paul Green's 1936 antiwar play for the Paul Green Society. More at Debrakaufman.info.
The featured readers will be followed by an Open Mic. For more information, or to register to read in the Open Mic, contact series originator, Scott Owens, at 828-234-4266 or [email protected]