# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Poetry with Rick Maxson
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 03:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Rick Maxson will visit City Lights on Saturday, May 16th at 3:00pm to read from his new poetry collection, Under the Pearl Moon.

The gorgeous poems in Under the Pearl Moon are accompanied by interludes of evocative memoir, where we travel with Rick from Ohio to Spain, California to Carolina, Texas to Florida-and more. (Maxson has moved more times than you can count, and with each move he's brought poetry forward to this crowning moment.)

A lifetime of experience, gathered into a luminous book of poems, Under the Pearl Moon takes you into the arms of love, wisdom, nature-and, of course, a glorious share of pearls and the moon.

Rick Maxson was the Every Day Poems permissions editor for eight years and a contributor at Tweetspeak Poetry. His poems have been published in Tania Runyan’s How to Read a Poem: Based on the Billy Collins Poem "Introduction to Poetry" and How to Write a Form Poem: A Guided Tour of 10 Fabulous Forms, as well as in Sara Barkat’s Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience. Maxson’s work has also appeared on The Poetry Foundation’s The Slowdown podcast.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/sylva/poetry-with-rick-maxson/200029924082952
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 3

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Sylva
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779
- **lat**: 35.37294
- **long**: -83.22335
- **full address**: 3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Poetry with Rick Maxson being held?
  - **A:** Poetry with Rick Maxson takes place on Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 03:00 pm to Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 03:00 pm at 3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Poetry with Rick Maxson?
  - **A:** Poetry with Rick Maxson is organized by City Lights Bookstore.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Poetry with Rick Maxson is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Sylva, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Poetry with Rick Maxson sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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