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WEST END POETS FESTIVAL |
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Plans are underway for the 2009
West End Poets Festival in Carrboro on Saturday, October
17.
If you would like to participate
in this year's event, you
may complete a West End Poets Application. The form
will be available on-line soon. , Here is a pdf.
copy that can be utilized now. The deadline
for applications will be August
15, 2009.
The Carrboro Recreation and Parks
Department develops and distributes a monthly poetry
newsletter -"West End Poets Newsletter". Please
visit our link on the right side of this page for the
most current and past newsletters.
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2008 WEST END POETS FESTIVAL |
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over thirty-five participating poets and a combined attendance
for the day of 328 (topping in one day our previous two
day event counts over the first two years of this event),
the West End Poets Festival of 2008 can be considered
a great success. The morning and afternoon sessions were
held at the Carrboro Century Center. These sessions offered
poetry events and readings for grades K-5, Middle and
High Schoolers and UNC Professors and students. Eight
very talented award winning North Carolina Poets closed
out the afternoon session. The evening session was hosted
at DSI Comedy Theater where our Carrboro and Hillsborough
Poet Laureates got the evening started. The night blocks
featured published poets, musical performances, spoken
word artist Church da Poet and award winning poetry slam
team, SlamCharlotte.
At this time we would once again
like to thank all of our poet participants who helped
us represent our theme "Diversity in Poetry"
through theatrical performances, readings, music, spoken
word, and slam. They keenly demonstrated with wonderful
talent poetry's ability to make us laugh, cry, and be
united and exalted through the gift of words.
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Why WEST END ?
 Carrboro
was known at one time in its history as WEST END. This
name derived from being located 'west of Chapel Hill.
The Carrboro community is proud
of the artistic talents that exist among its citizens.
To recognize the history of Carrboro and to showcase
the poets that live or visit the area, the name WEST
END POETS was selected for this poetry festival.
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STOP
LOOK LISTEN
as gate stripes swing down
count the cars hauling distance
upgrade through town:
warning whistle, bellclang,
engine eating steam,
engineer waving..... |
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words are the beginning of the poem "Crossing"[
by Phillip Booth (1958) ], and one
can easily reflect back to when the Durham-Greensboro
Southern Railway line began servicing the area to the
west of Chapel Hill. The town was known as West
End and the train station went simply by 'The
Depot'. |
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If you
would like to assist the Town of Carrboro in our effort
to provide this Community Event- please
use this paypal link or send your donation to:
Carrboro Recreation and Parks
Kim Andrews
100 North Greensboro Street
Carrboro, NC
27510
Checks should be made out to
the Town of Carrboro
and please note that this donation is to support
our poetry endeavors.
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