Posted on August 21, 2024
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a poetry reading by UNCG MFA Writing Program alums Joey Lew, James Jabar, and Michael Pittard on Sunday, October 6th at 4PM at Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm Street. The event is free and open to the public.
JOEY LEW is the author of Insensible Losses (Nymeria Publishing 2024). A surgical resident at Duke University, Lew holds an MFA in poetry from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2019) and an M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco (2023). Her poetry can be seen in The MacGuffin, One, and the Journal of Medical Humanities, among other literary magazines. She placed first in the 2020 William Carlos Williams National Poetry Competition and the 2022 Lough Mask Poetry Competition and was shortlisted at the 2023 Wolverhampton Literary Festival Poetry Competition, as well as a semifinalist for the 2023 Kay Murphy Poetry Prize.
JAMES JABAR is the author of the chapbook Whatever Happened to Black Boys? (Texas Review, 2020) and his poems have appeared in The Freshwater Review, The Minnesota Review, Southern Cultures, and Copper Nickel. He teaches at Guilford Technical Community College. When Jabar is not writing poetry or mentoring students, he enjoys analyzing music and movies on YouTube under the pseudonym Kakashi Cowboy.
MICHAEL PITTARD is an English lecturer and PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has an MFA from UNCG and is a former editor of The Greensboro Review. His poetry has appeared in such publications as CAROUSEL, Cola Literary Review, The Citron Review, and Appalachian Review, among others.
