Door Opens :
11:00a.m.

Performance begins:
11:30p.m.
(1 hour in length)

"The Crawdad's Conundrum" is a wonderful story for all ages. Its' theme focuses on the web of life, ecology, biology, and the environment. In this show, told in rhyming verse, we use rod puppets and cardboard to tell the story of a young crayfish who is determined to have her voice be heard. All sorts of adventures unfold as our hero and her friends a deer, a turtle, and other river dwellers try to protect their home from the ever increasing needs of the man.
Performed in a traditional style puppet stage, complete with a red curtain, "The Crawdad's Condundrum" has delighted thousands across the triangle and beyond.

cost: $2.00 per person

Andrea Selch, current President of Carolina Wren Press, joined the board after the publication of her poetry chapbook, Succory, which was #2 in the Carolina Wren Press poetry chapbook series. She has an MFA from UNC-Greensboro, and a PhD from Duke University, where she taught creative writing from 1999 until 2003. Her poems have been published in Calyx, Equinox, The Greensboro Review, Oyster Boy Review, Luna, The MacGuffin, and Prairie Schooner. Her full-length collection of poetry, Startling, was runner-up in the 2003 Turning Point competition and was published by Turning Point Press in October, 2004. Her next collection, Boy Returning Water to the Sea: Koans for Kelly Fearing, will be published in fall, 2007

William Burton's combines music and the spoken word. He is from San Francisco and describes himself as a "Singer Songwriter Street Poet". As a singer, he has opened for Jack Canfield, Les Brown, the late Muddy waters, the Late John lee Hooker. Bill Graham discovered him earning money in the parking lot of Grateful Dead concerts, and placed him in the Filmore West in front of Steven Stills formerly of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young! Come listen to his unique style of mixing poetry and music.

Meet and Greet : Book Signing with Andrea Selch

James Seay has taught at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1974. His most recent book of poetry is Open Field, Understory: New and Selected Poems. His poetry has been selected for inclusion in some thirty anthologies. From 1987-1997 he served as director of the Creative Writing Program at UNC-CH. His honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship (1996-1999) for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Daniel Cothran is a Lexington, Kentucky native and is interested in working on public health initiatives Have published "A Cooper's Hawk" in the Sunday Reader of the Raleigh News and Observer.

Andrew Dally grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and a journalism major with very few work-related aspirations.

Andrew Chan~ a senior from Charlotte, NC, majoring in English and Chinese and minoring in creative writing at UNC Chapel Hill. In addition to poetry, he writes film criticism, which can be found on his website wenyeowchan.blogspot.com.

Samantha Deal is from Boone, NC. She is a Comparative Literature (Major) and a Creative Writing (Minor). Her desire is to work in publishing some day ( currently interning at NC writer's network).

Sean Honea is a American Studies major and Creative Writing Minor.
Grew up in Lilburn, GA Joined the Army after High School 1997 - 2005 Activities / Interests: Capoeira, dancing, reading, Public Service Scholar Published Poetry: "Turning Twenty-Eight" and "Pegs" publication in the Cellar Door Fall 2006

Ashlie Canipe is from Hickory, North Carolina. She is a senior student of ancient Greek and Latin at UNC. After she graduates next spring, she plans to continue studying Greek, both ancient and modern, open to the many paths that lead to those ends.

Allison Harrison is a senior at UNC-CH from Burlington, NC. By majoring in American Studies and minoring in Creative Writing and Social & Economic Justice, she thinks she may have chosen the most liberal-artsy degree possible. She enjoys sunshine, good conversation, and trying to do her part to end all forms of oppression.

Kate MacQueen has been writing haiku and related forms for ten years. Her work has been published in The Heron's Nest, Acorn, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, and Contemporary Haibun & Haiga among others. Since moving to Chapel Hill, NC in 2001 she has been exploring the prolific and diverse local art scene-an almost overwhelming goal with over a hundred studios within just an hour's drive of her home. Kate organized Vision/Voice: Exploring Connections Between Art and Haiku, an art exhibit and panel discussion at Haiku North America 2007.This event grows out her interest in stimulating novel approaches to creating haiga by bridging the aesthetic sensibilities of contemporary American haiku and art.

Robert Moyer has been writing and performing haiku since 1999, when he won the Head to Head Haiku Championship at A Gathering of Poets. His work has been published in FROGPOND, Modern Haiku, Bottle Rockets, Acorn, and other journals. He is the director of SHAKESPEARE LIVES!, a professional development program for teachers based at Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London; he is also slammaster of the Winston Salem Poetry slam. Bob was one of the local organizers for Haiku North America 2007.

Dave Russo's haiku have appeared in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Acorn, and other journals. He is included in big sky: The Red Moon Anthology 2006 (Red Moon Press, 2007) and the latest New Resonance anthology from Red Moon Press. Russo is the Webmaster for Haiku North America, the North Carolina Haiku Society, and Red Moon Press. Dave was one of the local organizers for Haiku North America 2007.

Richard S. Straw has collected and read books of haiku, senryu, haibun, and haiga since 1966. In the late 1980s, he served as an editor of Pine Needles, a quarterly newsletter for the North Carolina Haiku Society (NCHS). He self-published A Hiker Sees His Shadow (2001), an eight-page chapbook dedicated to the memory of his dad. Along with other NCHS members, he attends monthly haiku meetings, ginkos , and the annual NCHS Haiku Holiday.

Angela Ray is a George Moses Horton Award winning poet, Angela Ray is a talented writer, published author, and exceptional wordsmith. The author of the book of poetry, Blackberry Whispers, she has performed on the same stage with Sonia Sanchez, Danny Glover, Vivica A. Fox, and fellow poets, Womanstorm, Dasan Ahanu, and Monica Daye among others. She is also a contributing author to the anthologies, Delta Girls: Stories of Sisterhood and No More Silent Cries. She is a part of the Poetry In the Light National Tour, which is an ensemble of Christian artists spreading the Word of God through the arts.

Nancy Kenney Connolly's lyric and philosophical poems have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. She has published a chapbook, I Take This World, set in India and winner of the Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest. Also three books, most recently SECOND WIND. The first book, The Color of Dust, was runner-up in the Oscar Arnold Young book contest. Her work has won numerous other prizes, and she was Featured Poet at the Houston Poetry Festival in 2006.

Her background includes a Ph.D. and experiences as a Fulbright scholar in India, a Michigan State University instructor, a Scott Foresman editor, a Merrill Lynch stockbroker, a non-profit executive, and a UNC Medical School Research Associate. Best of all, a mother and an activist for many causes. In both NC and Austin, she has been active in supporting poetry, particularly the North Carolina Poetry Society and the Austin International Poetry Festival, serving on its board and as its Festival Coordinator in 2006.

Tanya Olson holds the M.A. in Anglo-Irish Literature from University College, Dublin and a Ph.D. from UNC-Greensboro with a specialization in 20th-Century British Literature. She currently teaches English at Vance-Granville Community College. In addition to her work with CWP, she and Amy Nolan coordinate the D3 series and Third Fridays in Durham, NC. She is a poet and essayist who has published work in the Urban Hiker, Cairn, Simple Vows, Bad Subjects, and Main Street Rag. In 2002, she was the recipient of an Emerging Artist Grant from the Durham Arts Council

6:45 p.m

Door Opens :
8:00p.m.

Performance begins:
8:30p.m.