The Writers at Home spring series continues with the Asheville launch of poet Tina Barr’s second book, Kaleidoscope (Iris Press, 2015).
This event is free and open to the public and begins at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 19, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., in downtown Asheville.
Kaleidoscope has garnered praise from many writers, including former North Carolina Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti, who says, “Tina Barr’s fascinating new volume of poems, Kaleidoscope, is a dazzle of worlds within worlds, words within words, the tessellated, often hallucinatory, vortices of memory. . . . This is a poet at the height of her powers.”
Barr also is the author of The Gathering Eye (Tupelo Press, 2004), won and chapbooks, At Dusk on Naskeag Point (Flume Press, 1984), The Fugitive Eye(Painted Bride Quarterly Press, 1997), and Red Land, Black Land (Methodist College Press, 2002).
Barr’s recent poems have been published in Witness, Shenandoah, The Crab Orchard Review and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She formerly directed the creative writing program at Rhodes College, where she was the Charles R. Glover Chair of English Studies. She now teaches in the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC Asheville.
The Writers at Home Series is sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program. For more information, visit agc.unca.edu/great-smokies-