Poetry with Sue Weaver Dunlap & KB Ballentine

Schedule

Sat, 27 Sep, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779 | Sylva, NC

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Join us for a poetry reading with Sue Weaver Dunlap & KB Ballentine on Saturday, September 27th at 3:00pm. Sue will read from her latest poetry collection, Thursday's Child, and KB from her collection, All the Way Through.
Sue Weaver Dunlap, a multi-generation Southern Appalachian, lives in Walland, Tennessee, on a mountain farm with her husband Raymond. Publications include Appalachian Journal, Appalachian Heritage, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Kakalak, Women Speak, 24 Tales: Appalachian Ghost Stories, Legends, and Other Mysteries, and The Southern Poetry Anthology. Dunlap’s works also include A Walk to the Spring House (Iris Press, 2021), Knead (Main Street Rag, 2016), and Story Tender (Finishing Line Press, 2014). Dunlap shares: “My kin carry stories of our culture and history here in Appalachia. Some seem strange to outsiders but never to me. I seek to honor and preserve my kin and their stories.”
KB Ballentine teaches creative writing, theatre arts, and literature to high school and college students, her home nestled at the base of the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee. She has an M.A. in Writing from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Poetry from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Her work has appeared in numerous journals and publications, including Atlanta Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Linnet’s Wings, Crab Orchard Review, Alehouse, Tidal Basin Review, Haight–Ashbury Literary Journal, The Sigh Press, and MO: Writings from the River.
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