Poetry at
The Brewer’s Kettle
FOLLOWED BY AN OPEN MIC
In celebration of National Poetry Month, join us for an event of haiku/senryu, free verse, and performance poetry. Bring your poetry for the open mic.
Featured Poets:
Alan Pizzarelli, Donna Beaver, Crystal Simone Smith, Robert Moyer, and Kelly Moyer.
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The venue will be held at the Brewer’s Kettle (Kernersville, NC) in the Beer Garden patio stage area. The Brewer’s Kettle is a hip, funky place serving beer and wine, plus a coffee trailer with snacks right next to it.
FEATURED POETS
Alan Pizzarelli is a poet and musician originally from New Jersey now living in North Carolina. He has been writing poetry for more than 50 years. Since then, many of Pizzarelli’s poems have achieved worldwide acclaim and have appeared in a variety of textbooks, journals, and anthologies. He is the author of 14 collections of poetry, including the highly popular “Frozen Socks” and “Mind Zaps” (House of Haiku Books, 2015, 2019 ).
Donna Beaver is an Alaska Native (Tlingit/Tsimshian) poet and multidisciplinary artist, originally from Juneau, Alaska now living in North Carolina. In 2000, she was awarded the Alaska Native Writer’s Award for Literature from the University of Alaska, Southeast. She was a featured artist in the Winter 2022 issue of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Magazine, which included her poetry and photography. As a former education outreach coordinator specializing in informal and Native science education, she continues to do Indigenous Knowledge talks and storytelling.
Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli are the hosts of the poetry podcast Haiku Chronicles.
Photo by James G. Northrup
Crystal Simone Smith is a poet, indie-publisher, and educator. She is the author of Dark Testament (Henry Holt, 2023). She also authored three poetry chapbooks. Her latest collection of haiku, Ebbing Shore, won the Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Book Award (2022). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Prairie Schooner, POETRY Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. Smith teaches writing in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. She writes poetry about the human condition and social change.
Photo by Tommy Priest
Bob has had hundreds of poems published in major haiku journals, including Modern Haiku, frogpond, Simply Haiku, Bottle Rockets, and many others. He has been anthologized widely, most notably in the tenth-anniversary collection of Acorn and the seventh cycle of Daily Haiku. His work is archived at Haiku News, where he has had over 100 poems published and has had 27 of those poems included in their anthology. Mr. Moyer is the author of the acclaimed book of haiga, THE LAST BITE. He is resident poet and theater artist at the Arts-Based School in Winston Salem.
A graduate of Northwestern University, as was her inkslinging father before her, Kelly Moyer is the author of Scarlet Apples & Cream, a collection of free verse; Om Namah, a novella named finalist in the 2017 IPPY awards; and Hushpuppy, a collection of short-form poetry, released this past year by Nun Prophet Press. When not writing or crocheting, she can often be found hiking North Carolina’s Mountain-to-Sea Trail or strolling the cobbled streets of New Orleans’s French Quarter.