

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Waterbean Poetry Night Welcomes DAVID E. POSTON & GARY V. POWELL
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Hello, Poets &amp; Friends!

Please SAVE the DATE—March 25—when I'll welcome back to the Waterbean Poetry stage featured poets, David E. Poston + Gary V. Powell!

Featured Poet Bios:

Gary V. Powell is a Pushcart Prize nominee for his poetry and short fiction. His debut poetry chapbook, Super Blood Wolf Moon, won Kallisto Gaia Press’s 2020 Contemporary Poetry Prize. His second poetry chapbook is Permafrost, published by Finishing Line Press in 2023. Gary’s new chapbook is The Largesse of the Maidenhair Fern (Main Street Rag Publishing, spring 2026). Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in/at the Telluride Institute, Writer’s Digest, Southword, Passager Journal 2025, Oberon Poetry Journal, Northcoast Voices Anthology, and Kakalak Anthology. A retired lawyer, Gary lives with his beautiful wife near the shores of Lake Norman, NC.

David E. Poston’s new poetry collection, Letting Go, is forthcoming from Fernwood Press in spring 2026. He is the author of three previous poetry collections, including Postmodern Bourgeois Poetaster Blues, winner of the NC Writers’ Network Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Chapbook Competition, and Slow of Study, a finalist for the Texas Review Press Breakthrough Prize. His poetry and prose have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Pedestal, moonShine review, NC Literary Review, Garfield Lake Review, and Sugar House Review. David is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a former Kakalak editor, and an NC Poetry Society board member. A retired teacher, David lives with his lovely wife in Gastonia, NC.

General Details:

7 PM  •  WED.  •  25 MARCH 2026
Waterbean Coffee - Huntersville 
9705 Sam Furr Rd., Ste. A, 
Huntersville, NC 28078 
in NorthCross Shopping Center (corner of NC-73 &amp; US-21)

We'll begin at 7:00 sharp &amp; have a hard stop at 8:50 (venue closes at 9:00). 

Following the featured program &amp; a break for book sales/signings, stick around to enjoy the OPEN MIC!

Open Mic Guidelines: 

Please arrive 6:30–6:45 to sign up in person, as spots are limited &amp; go quickly. No holds. Each open mic reader has (at host’s discretion) up to 5 minutes on stage to share 1–2 one-page poems. If you sign up to read, please stay to hear &amp; support your fellow poets. 

* * Please mark yourself GOING to this EVENT if you’ll attend.* * 

Kindly support the venue &amp; baristas, &amp; featured poets if you can.

As your host, my MISSION is fostering diversity, kindness, community, &amp; peace through poetry. This event is FREE &amp; open to the public, part of Waterbean Poetry's monthly reading series that offers an INCLUSIVE, SAFE SPACE for all poets &amp; friends of poetry.


Peace &amp; poetry for all,

Leslie M. Rupracht
Host &amp; Co-founder • Waterbean Poetry Night at the Mic
Editor • Poet • Writer • Artist • Ally • Community Builder
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- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 30

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Huntersville
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Waterbean Coffee #2 - Huntersville
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- **full address**: Waterbean Coffee #2 - Huntersville, 9705 Sam Furr Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078-5046, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Waterbean Coffee #2 - Huntersville, 9705 Sam Furr Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078-5046, United States
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  - **A:** Waterbean Poetry Night at the Mic
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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