Posted on June 5, 2023
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a poetry reading by Matt Hart on Thursday, October 5th at 6:00 PM at at Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm Street. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing
MATT HART is the author of eight books of poems: Who’s Who Vivid, Wolf Face, Light-Headed , Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless , Debacle Debacle, Radiant Companion, Everything Breaking/For Good, and Familiar. Additionally, his poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Cincinnati Review, Coldfront, Columbia Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review, Harvard Review, and Post Road, among others. Hart’s awards include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from both the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and plays in the band TRAVEL.
STUART DISCHELL is the author of Good Hope Road, a National Poetry Series Selection, Evenings & Avenues, Dig Safe, Backwards Days, Children With Enemies, The Lookout Man, and the pamphlets Animate Earth and Touch Monkey as well as the chapbook Standing on Z. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Agni, The New Republic, Slate, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and anthologies including Essential Poems, Hammer and Blaze, Pushcart Prize, and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems. A recipient of awards from the NEA, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Swiss saxophonist and composer LAURENT ESTOPPEY lives in Greensboro, works mostly between USA and Switzerland, and devotes himself mostly to music and arts of today. Numerous collaborations with composers have led him to create at least three hundred works but also to open him to the composition world. Now his musical activity is divided between written music and improvisation, and it occurs throughout Switzerland, many European countries, but also in the Americas, Russia and South Africa. Beside having founded and developed numerous chamber music groups, Estoppey is a member and artistic director of Swiss ensemBle baBel and Collapss (music, dance, poetry, visual arts in Greensboro, nc). His discography includes more than thirty recordings.
