Hello, Poets & Friends!
Please join me at Waterbean Poetry Night on June 25 when I’ll welcome two wonderful featured poets:
KARL PLANK + JOYCE COMPTON BROWN!
Poet Bios:
KARL PLANK is the author of The Grace of Falling Things: Poems (Grayson Books, 2024) and the critical work, The Fact of the Cage: Reading and Redemption in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (Routledge, 2021). He also authored A Field, Part Arable (Lithic Press, 2017) and BOSS: Rewriting Rilke (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2017). His poetry has featured on Poetry Daily and appeared in journals such as Beloit Poetry Journal, Tahoma Literary Review, and Zone 3. A past winner of the Thomas Carter Prize from Shenandoah, Karl is the J.W. Cannon Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Davidson College. Karl previously featured at Waterbean in June 2019.
JOYCE COMPTON BROWN comes from a western piedmont North Carolina family with deep agrarian roots. After earning degrees at Appalachian State University and the University of Southern Mississippi, Joyce taught at Gardner-Webb University. She maintains interests in Southern culture and roots music, playing the banjo for pleasure; she also enjoys painting and drawing. Her husband, Les, two daughters, and the cat fill spaces in her life not taken up with writing. Joyce’s five books of poetry are Bequest (Finishing Line), Singing with Jarred Edges (Main Street Rag Publishing), Standing on the Outpost (Redhawk Publications), Hard-Packed Clay (Redhawk), and Flowers of the Heavens (Madville Publishing, 2025). This will be Joyce's fourth featured reading at Waterbean.
General Details:
Following the featured program and a short break for book sales/signing, stick around to enjoy a lively OPEN MIC!
7:00 PM • WEDNESDAY • 25 JUNE 2025
Waterbean Coffee - Huntersville
9705 Sam Furr Rd., Ste. A
Huntersville, NC 28078
in NorthCross Shopping Center
(corner of NC-73 & US-21)
We’ll begin at 7:00 & have a hard stop at 8:50 (the venue closes at 9:00).
OPEN MIC GUIDELINES:
Arrive 6:30–6:45 to sign up in person, as spots are limited & will go quickly. No holds.
Each open mic reader has five (5) minutes on stage to share 1–2 poems. If you sign up to read, please stay to hear & support your fellow poets read as well.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The TINY TABLETOP LIBRARY, dedicated in Memory of Poet Mike James (1970–2023), offers FREE, generously donated poetry—books, chapbooks, journals, & anthologies—for you to peruse, take home, & enjoy. Donations welcome. See pinned post on our Facebook page for full details.
Please mark yourself GOING to this EVENT if you’ll attend.
Kindly support the venue & baristas, & featured poets if you can.
As your host, my MISSION is to foster diversity, kindness, community, & peace through poetry.
Event is FREE & open to the public, part of Waterbean Poetry's monthly poetry reading series that offers an INCLUSIVE, SAFE SPACE for all poets & friends of poetry.
Peace & poetry for all,
Leslie
Leslie M. Rupracht
Host • Co-founder • Ally • Community Builder
Also check out other Arts events in Huntersville, Literary Art events in Huntersville, Fine Arts events in Huntersville.
