poetry

December 29, 7:30 PM Asheville Community Theater Since the show’s inception several years ago, Jamie Laval has honed and refined his concept for a solstice-oriented, non-commercial holiday music program, each year modifying the lineup of performers and unveiling new musical selections collected from his travels abroad. The best elements ofContinue Reading

Contributing writers to UNC Asheville’s The Great Smokies Review literary magazine will share their works when the monthly Writers at Home series has its final public reading of the fall at 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 19, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. This event, hosted by UNC Asheville’sContinue Reading

Hiroya Tsukamoto 11/8/2017 • $15.00 Doors 5:00 pm, Show 7:00 pm /Lounge-50 seats Limited Tables Available with a Dinner Reservation: All Other Seating is First to Come First Serve General Admission: Please Call Venue for Dinner (Table) Reservations • Tickets and Information Available at: isisasheville.com Eclectic, immersive and mesmerizing; International acclaimedContinue Reading

  An old silent pond… A frog jumps into the pond. Splash! Silence again.   – Basho (17th c.) Like every artistic device of Zen, poetry is a finger pointing to here-and-now. It serves to reclaim our wandering minds centered on our egoistic importance and challenges, to startle us intoContinue Reading

How does it feel to be a contemporary painter in a landscape-kind-of town? Jane Molinelli believes there is room for all forms of artistic expression in Asheville, though she admits to sometimes feeling like an outlier. Her work—colorful, abstract, and sometimes textural—may not be for everyone, but she feels herContinue Reading

APRIL by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist – This is National Poetry Month! (About time.) Poetry is a genre Latinos have excelled in. Think Lorca, Neruda, Paz, Gabriela Mistral, William Carlos Williams, Carmen Tafolla, Juan Felipe Herrera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Victor Hernandez Cruz. Claribel Alegria, a majorContinue Reading

When Words Sing by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist –     When words sing, poetry happens. When words sing, lyricism happens: Lyric poetry (and prose) happens. Friedrich Nietzsche declared that the lyric poet “always says ‘I’ and sings us through the full chromatic scale of passions andContinue Reading