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Sunday, April 30, 2023 - 3:00pm @MetroWines
 
Join us to celebrate National Poetry Month with a reading of Mildred Kiconco Barya’s The Animals of My Earth School at Metro Wines. Malaprop's is pleased to partner with Metro Wines to present this event and pairing of select wines and poems.

 

The reading is free and open to the public (You do not need to register). Wine and books will be on sale. Free, easy parking.

 

Mildred Kiconco Barya is a writer from Uganda and the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently The Animals of My Earth School released by Terrapin Books, 2023. Her prose, hybrids, and poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Joyland, The Cincinnati Review, Tin House, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She’s now working on a collection of creative nonfiction, and her essay, “Being Here in This Body,” won the 2020 Linda Flowers Literary Award and was published in the North Carolina Literary Review. Barya teaches creative writing and literature at UNC-Asheville, serves on the boards of African Writers Trust and Story Parlor, and coordinates the Poetrio Reading events at Malaprop’s Independent Bookstore/Café.

 

She blogs here: www.mildredbarya.com

 

In the compassionate, playful, fable-like poems of The Animals of My Earth School, Mildred Kiconco Barya awakens us to the vividly singing, fully alive, non-human communities surrounding us. These poems demonstrate poetry’s unique ability to prick us from our self-involved numbness and awaken us to wonder. There is great solace, tenderness, and innocence here—the kind of innocence capable of apprehending the creatures of the world—and thus the world itself—afresh. Like a literary Noah’s ark of song, The Animals of My Earth School provides a place where all may dance and thrive. These poems provide pleasure and a glimmer of hope.  —Michael Hettich

 

Metro Wines Asheville

828-575-9525 

 

Event address: 
169 Charlotte St
Asheville, NC 28801