Reading Room: Ron Rash

Ron Rash has written three poetry collections (Eureka Mill, Among the Believers, Raising the Dead), short story collections (The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth, Casualties, Chemistry), and novels (One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, The World Made Straight). He has also authored a children’s book, The Shark’s Tooth. Rash’s family has lived in the southern Appalachians since the eighteenth century, and the region is the primary focus of his writing. He grew up in Boiling Springs, NC, and graduated from Gardner-Webb University and Clemson University. He is the Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University.

Date: 5/12/2008
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: The Handlebar

Reading Room: Phebe Davidson

Phebe Davidson has authored several collections of poems, most recently the chapbooks Song Dog (Stepping Stones Press, 2006, winner of the SC Poetry Initiative Chapbook Competition), The Drowned Man (Finishing Line Press, 2006), and Twelve Leagues In (Spire Press, 2006, Editor’s Choice). Two full-length books of poems are forthcoming: Fat Moon Rising (Main Street Rag, 2008) and The Surface of Things (David Robert Books, 2009). Founding editor of Palanquin Press and staff writer for The Asheville Poetry Review, she has had book reviews and poems appear in many print and electronic venues. Davidson received the Erica F. Wiest poetry award from Cream City Review in 2007. A “recovering academic, ” she lives in Westminster with her spouse and cat.

Date: 5/12/2008
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: The Handlebar