Poetry with Cecilia Woloch & Louise Morgan Runyon
Schedule
Fri, 22 Nov, 2024 at 06:00 pm
Location
3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779 | Sylva, NC
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Poets Cecilia Woloch and Louise Morgan Runyon will give readings of their poetry highlighting labor and social justice issues on Friday, November 22, at 6 p.m. at City Lights Books in Sylva. This reading celebrates the release of Woloch’s new chapbook, "Labor: The Testimony of Ted Gall". Ted Gall was a coal miner and union organizer in Western Pennsylvania in the first half of the 20th century. Woloch’s new book traces Gall’s experiences in the mines and the union, and the confluence of the labor movement with the ongoing, developing movement for black liberation. Says poet Joy Priest, “This poem, composed almost entirely in words written by Gall himself, gives a first-hand account of what it was like in the mines, in the unions, and in the spirits of the working poor, ‘lifting their voices like trumpets’…an important contribution to Appalachian ‘docupoetics’ and cross-racial labor solidarity.”
Cecilia Woloch is the granddaughter of a coal miner and grew up in rural Kentucky. She is an award-winning poet with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation, and is the author of seven books of poetry. She has traveled the world extensively as a teacher and writer. Her book Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem has had multi-lingual, multi-media performances in Los Angeles, Paris, Warsaw, Athens and elsewhere. ceciliawoloch.squarespace.com.
Louise Morgan Runyon is a poet with deep roots in Western North Carolina. A former steelworker and labor activist, she is also a dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Louise Runyon Performance Company. She has published five books of poems and has “a gift for connecting generations… and bridging gaps divided by race, language, and culture,” per writer Kendall Klym. Runyon facilitates Mountain Word Writers’ Group at City Lights, and all of her books are available there. louiserunyonperformance.com.
Woloch will offer a workshop for local writers called Our Lives Which Can Never Run Dry: Workshop for Writers in Short-Form Prose & Poetry. The workshop will be held on Thursday, November 21 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., St. David's Episcopal Church, Cullowhee. Contact [email protected] for more information, or if interested in Mountain Word Writers’ Group.
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